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Issue with Horizontal Alignment of Monospace Argon Font in Emacs and BBEdit on macOS #276

@kresdjan

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@kresdjan

Is anyone using Monaspace fonts on macOS in Emacs or BBEdit? I am trying to get the font correctly aligned horizontally. It seems like it is aligned from cap height to cap height, as if the characters aren't aligned horizontally in the glyphs. Other fonts that I have tested seem to be more aligned from ascender to descender. As if the glyphs/character don't fit properly inside metrics. If you using an uppercase character with diacritics, they will be cut off.

Screenshot 2024-12-29 at 17 29 29

SF Mono vs Cascadia Code vs Monaspace Argon open in Glyphs.app

Using Monaspace Argon, you can see in the screenshots with the selected line of text that it happens in both Emacs and BBEdit. I have also included screenshots from BBEdit using other fonts like Menlo and SF Mono.

Screen shot Emacs Monaspace Argon

Additional screenshots from BBEdit:

Monaspace Argon

Screenshot 2024-12-29 at 17 45 00

Menlo

Screenshot 2024-12-29 at 17 45 13

SF Mono

Screenshot 2024-12-29 at 17 45 27
Monaspace version:
Version 1.101 (Monaspace Argon)

System:
ProductName:		macOS
ProductVersion:		15.2
BuildVersion:		24C101

Emacs:
GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin24.1.0, NS appkit-2575.20 Version 15.1 (Build 24B83)) of 2024-11-04

BBEdit:
version 15.1.3 (15B62, 64-bit Intel)

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