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Categories Compass
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 1, 2022

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Current hard-coded font puts a lot of strain on the eyes and hard to use

I just updated Compass to v1.33.0 from 1.23.0 version and immediately got blindsided that you switched font to serif, which is much harder to read, even though the font itself is a bit larger. Zooming just a little bit in v1.23.0 makes it very comfortable to work with, but zooming in on serif font in v1.33.0 makes it huge and the whole app is less usable for me. After struggling for a bit, I uninstalled v1.33.0 and installed back v1.23.0. So far it works, so I will keep using it for the time being. I attached both UI screenshots at 0% zoom for both versions, so you can see how much fainter serif font looks like.
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Aug 8, 2025
    This was a bug. The non-serif font is now packaged with Compass.
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  • Guest
    Jan 31, 2023
    Thank you for the fix and the heads-up. Will update Compass now.
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  • Guest
    Sep 2, 2022
    Thank you for quick feedback and a work-around. I have Visual Studio and VS Code installed on this computer, so it's a bit surprising that it wouldn't find some usable monospace font equivalent.
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  • Guest
    Sep 2, 2022
    Thank you for reporting this. We realized we are not bundling the monospace font we use for code and document editors and therefore Compass falls back to the monospace font that is available on the operating system. A temporary workaround is to install Source Code Pro on your OS: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro.
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