Fonts

Zed ships two font faces by Mike Abbink and Bold Monday: IBM Plex Mono and IBM Plex Sans.

Settings

• Buffer fonts
  • buffer_font_family
  • buffer_font_features
  • buffer_font_size
  • buffer_font_weight
  • buffer_font_fallbacks
  • buffer_line_height
• UI fonts
  • ui_font_family
  • ui_font_fallbacks
  • ui_font_features
  • ui_font_weight
  • ui_font_size
• Terminal fonts
  • terminal.font_size
  • terminal.font_family
  • terminal.font_features
  • terminal.line_height
• Other settings:
  • active_pane_magnification

Old Fonts

Zed Plex

Previously Zed shipped slightly customized versions of IBM Plex Mono and IBM Plex Sans branded as Zed Plex Mono and Zed Plex Sans. We now ship unchanged versions of IBM Plex fonts instead.

Zed Mono & Zed Sans {#zed-fonts}

Prior to that, Zed shipped with Zed Mono and Zed Sans, customized versions of the Iosevka typeface. You can find more about them in the zed-fonts repository.

Here's how you can use Zed Mono and Zed Sans:

1. Download zed-app-fonts-1.2.0.zip from the zed-fonts releases page.
2. Open macOS Font Book.app
3. Unzip the file and drag the ttf files into the Font Book app.
4. Update your settings ui_font_family and buffer_font_family to use Zed Mono or Zed Sans in your settings.json file.

{
  "ui_font_family": "Zed Sans Extended",
  "buffer_font_family": "Zed Mono Extend",
  "terminal": {
    "font-family": "Zed Mono Extended"
  }
}

5. Note there will be red squiggles under the font name. (this is a bug, but harmless.)