Font spacing has gone nuts on OSX (Since 1.49)

[Gruntfuggly]

I've just updated to 1.49 under OSX and the font spacing has increased:

I can recover the font in the main editor by setting the spacing to -5 but it doesn't work for the integrated terminal.

The font used is ProggyTiny, which was working perfectly up until this update. I use the same font under Ubuntu and there is no issue with 1.49.

[Tyriar]

Can you share your settings file?

[Gruntfuggly]

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[Gruntfuggly]

Sorry - there's a lot of stuff in there!

[Tyriar]

I've seen Chromium-related issues with a Proggy font before in the terminal #84432, I'm guessing this is related to the Electron 9 update.

[pavlos256]

I have the same issue on Linux but only on the terminal. Not using the Proggy font.

Edit: Setting a different front for the terminal via "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Consolas" fixed it. It seems the font used for the editor has problems when used on the terminal: "PxPlus IBM VGA 8x16".

[deepak1556]

/duplicate #84432