fix widthclass and size issues

[RustoMCSpit]

"The WidthClass is set to 400 instead of 300, which breaks cosmic texts fallback stack on Linux. (Also they're really big, for some reason I don't know yet)" zed-industries/zed#15053 (comment)

[notpeter]

Note

Zed not longer ships Zed Mono and Zed Sans typefaces. This repo is not actively maintained.

That said, I am willing to review community bug-fix PRs and potentially ship an updated release, but this is not my area of expertise and so I can't help much. Personally, I love Zed Mono and would very much love for it to live on.

[RustoMCSpit]

I love Zed Mono and would very much love for it to live on.

i am going to fanboy a minute and i apologise. it's the best fucking font ive ever seen and i am obsessed with it. it's perfect, it can not visually be improved. it is the pinnacle of fonts.

[RustoMCSpit]

Note

Zed not longer ships Zed Mono and Zed Sans typefaces. This repo is not actively maintained.

That said, I am willing to review community bug-fix PRs and potentially ship an updated release, but this is not my area of expertise and so I can't help much. Personally, I love Zed Mono and would very much love for it to live on.

do you know exactly why it was canned? is the above the only problem with it? im sure someone of your 100000s of users would fix it (or i can if i know what to look for). what exactly were all the reasons to get rid of it?

[RustoMCSpit]

but this is not my area of expertise.

would anyone on the team be knowledgable in knowing what needs to be fixed? a simple checklist would do.

[notpeter]

I think it's possible some of the problems may have been fixed upstream: be5invis/Iosevka. I would try to use the private-build-plans.toml with a newer release of Iosevka.

I don't have a checklist, but here's one which came up in a quick issue search:

• Zed mono em dash wrongly rendered in terminal zed#9821

Also the size is also out of control.
IBM Plex Mono Regular is 134kb
BlexMonoNerdFont Regular is 2.2MB (includes 2MB of Nerd Font Glyphs)
FiraCode is 290kb.
JetBrains Mono is 274kb.
Zed Mono is 3.3MB without Nerd Font Glyphs 🫤
Practically its 4x that (regular, bold, italic, bold italic) so 13.6MB. Eek.

[RustoMCSpit]

i'll look into this later, if you can @ anyone who knows more that'd be great. thank you so much (not)peter.

[RustoMCSpit]

looking into this now but i dont know if zed's default was sans or mono. i'll try building with the .toml if you cant do that on your end with a github action and seeing if that works.

[notpeter]

We shipped both, but Zed Mono was the default. See default.json in the diff when we switched.