Use Cascadia Mono instead of Code to avoid ligatures

otsaloma · Aug 14, 2023 · 6b6e8ef · 6b6e8ef
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diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ PENDING: NFO Viewer 1.9
 * Use GTK 4 (#25)
 * Export to image functionality disabled for now (I don't know how to
   accomplish this in GTK 4)
+* Switch default font from Cascadia Code to Cascadia Mono (GTK 4 +
+  Cascadia Code would render ligatures, which don't fit well in NFO;
+  Mono is basically the same font, but without ligatures)
 * Bump required Python version to 3.8
 
 2022-10-03: NFO Viewer 1.29

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ and gettext to build the Flatpak.
 
 NFO Viewer requires Python ≥ 3.8, PyGObject ≥ 3.0.0 and GTK ≥ 4.0. You
 also need a font that supports the kinds of glyphs commonly used in NFO
-files: Cascadia Code is a good choice and used by NFO Viewer by default,
+files: Cascadia Mono is a good choice and used by NFO Viewer by default,
 if available. During installation you will also need gettext. On
 Debian/Ubuntu you can install these with the following command.
 

diff --git a/nfoview/config.py b/nfoview/config.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 DEFAULTS = {
     "background_color": "#ffffff",
     "color_scheme": "default",
-    "font": "Cascadia Code 12",
+    "font": "Cascadia Mono 12",
     "foreground_color": "#2e3436",
     "link_color": "#2a76c6",
     "pixels_above_lines": 0,