Fonts fallbacks.

[ixti]

I'm using MonoLisa as of lately, but still have lots of love to Victor Mono. And as Victor Mono is available on Gentoo Linux, I'd like to keep my config to fallback to Victor Mono if I've forgot or was lazy to download MonoLisa on a new machine, LOL. Thus I've wrote this script:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from kitty.fonts.common import all_fonts_map

MONO_LISA_VARIABLE = """
font_family      family="MonoLisa Variable" variable_name=MonoLisaVariableRegular features="ss02 ss03 ss06 ss07 ss08 ss09 ss11 ss16 -calt -liga" wght=180
font_size        11
bold_font        auto
italic_font      auto
bold_italic_font auto
"""

VICTOR_MONO = """
font_family       Victor Mono
font_size         12
bold_font         auto
italic_font       auto
bold_italic_font  auto
disable_ligatures cursor
"""

try:
    family_map = all_fonts_map().get("family_map", {})
    families   = set(map(str.lower, family_map.keys()))

    if "monolisa variable" in families:
        print(MONO_LISA_VARIABLE)
    else:
        print(VICTOR_MONO)
except:
    pass

Just wanted to share if anybody might need similar. Also, in a hope that if anybody has opinion/thought on correctness of the approach - they will speak up. :D

Why not using fontconfig?

Simply because I failed to find how to provide wght for a variable font, as well as failed to find how to configure MonoLisa to use ExtraLight variant on non-variable one... ))