Kitty: Specifying font variant fails on macOS

[net]

Specifying font variant fails on macOS

font_family      SF Mono Medium
italic_font      SF Mono Medium Italic
bold_font        SF Mono Semibold
bold_italic_font SF Mono Semibold Italic

Using auto works fine.

font_family      SF Mono
italic_font      auto
bold_font        auto
bold_italic_font auto

[kovidgoyal]

Unfortuantely, I dont have an OS X machine capable of running kitty, only building it, so debugging font rendering issues is rather difficult for me. I have not really looked into font variant handling in OSX, but the relevant code is in core_text.py (set_font_family()) and core_text.m new()

Probably some some further attributes need to be set on the font_attributes dictionary.

[kovidgoyal]

The correct syntax for choosing SF Mono Semibold as your bold font is.

font_family SF Mono Medium
italic_font SF Mono Medium
bold_font        SF Mono Semibold
bold_italic_font SF Mono Semibold