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Closes #159.

What changed

Adds customizable system fonts under Settings → Appearance → Fonts: an interface-font knob (family + weight) and a code-font knob (family + size + weight), with search, monospace filtering, and a live xterm preview.

Why

Users are stuck with the hardcoded font stacks and cannot use their installed fonts (ligatures, Nerd Font glyphs) in the editor and terminal. Fonts are referenced by family name and rendered natively by the OS nothing bundled.

UI

Adds a Fonts section to Settings ? Appearance (font pickers, size/weight controls, live terminal preview).

Catches

The UI font size is not part of this PR as that will require a extensive refactor of many tailwindcss classes applied across the codebase, and the zoom controls mostly handles this part.

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  • I ran npm run check
  • I did not mix unrelated changes

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added customizable interface and code font settings, including family, size, and weight.
    • Added system font browsing with search, monospace filtering, and keyboard navigation.
    • Added live code and terminal font previews in Appearance settings.
    • Font preferences can be saved, restored, and reset.
    • Editor and terminal typography update immediately when font settings change.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Custom interface fonts now apply consistently across supported platforms, including macOS.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for font defaults, validation, persistence, and system font handling.

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Walkthrough

Adds system font discovery and persisted interface and code font settings. The settings view provides font pickers, weight and size controls, and a live terminal preview. CodeMirror and terminals update when code font settings change.

Changes

Font customization

Layer / File(s) Summary
System font discovery
src-tauri/Cargo.toml, src-tauri/src/fonts.rs, src-tauri/src/lib.rs
Adds fontdb-based system font enumeration, family deduplication, monospace detection, tests, and Tauri command registration.
Font state and CSS application
src/lib/fonts.ts, src/lib/fonts.test.ts, src/index.css, src/main.tsx, src/lib/settings.ts
Adds normalized font settings, localStorage persistence, CSS variables, change events, startup initialization, cached font loading, and tests.
Font settings controls
src/surfaces/SettingsView.tsx
Adds interface and code font controls, weight and size selectors, lazy font pickers, keyboard navigation, restore-default handling, and a live xterm.js preview.
Editor and terminal rendering
src/surfaces/TerminalView.tsx, src/surfaces/editorChrome.ts
Applies shared code font settings to terminals and CodeMirror. Terminal font changes trigger grid re-fitting and PTY resizing.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SettingsView
  participant fonts.ts
  participant TerminalView
  participant CodeMirror
  SettingsView->>fonts.ts: Save font family, size, or weight
  fonts.ts->>fonts.ts: Persist settings and dispatch FONTS_CHANGE_EVENT
  fonts.ts-->>TerminalView: Notify terminal
  fonts.ts-->>CodeMirror: Update CSS variables
  TerminalView->>TerminalView: Update options and refit grid
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 29090

Keyboard users may lose sight of the selected font while moving through a long font list. The change is otherwise mergeable with bounded usability follow-up.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 22.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 50 functions across 9 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the linked issue objectives. They add interface and code font controls, monospace filtering, size and weight settings, lazy cached font discovery, live terminal and picker previews…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are focused on the custom system-font feature. Backend discovery, font state management, styling, settings UI, terminal and editor integration, tests, and settings text all support the lin…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: custom system-font selection for interface and code fonts.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers what changed, why it changed, the UI impact, and the test checklist. It is mostly complete, although the small-and-focused checklist item is not checked and no screenshot is inc…
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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
src/surfaces/SettingsView.tsx (1)

1520-1529: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Scroll the highlighted row into view during keyboard navigation.

FontPicker moves active with ArrowUp and ArrowDown, but no code scrolls the highlighted option into the visible area. A system font list usually contains hundreds of families, so the highlight leaves the viewport after a few key presses and the user cannot see the current row. The existing Select component in this file solves this with an activeOption ref plus scrollIntoView({ block: "nearest" }) (Lines 2436, 2452-2455). Apply the same pattern here.

♻️ Proposed fix
+  const activeOption = useRef<HTMLButtonElement>(null);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!open) return;
+    activeOption.current?.scrollIntoView({ block: "nearest" });
+  }, [active, open]);

Then forward a ref prop to FontPickerOption and attach it on the highlighted row, as Select does.

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In `@src/surfaces/SettingsView.tsx` around lines 1520 - 1529, Update FontPicker
keyboard navigation to scroll the highlighted option into view: add an
active-option ref, forward the ref through FontPickerOption, and attach it to
the row matching active. Reuse the Select pattern by calling scrollIntoView with
block set to nearest whenever ArrowUp or ArrowDown changes the active row.
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Inline comments:
In `@src-tauri/src/fonts.rs`:
- Line 110: Remove the non-empty assertion for the result of
collect_system_fonts_sync, while preserving the existing font uniqueness and
ordering checks so empty results remain valid.

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In `@src/surfaces/SettingsView.tsx`:
- Around line 1520-1529: Update FontPicker keyboard navigation to scroll the
highlighted option into view: add an active-option ref, forward the ref through
FontPickerOption, and attach it to the row matching active. Reuse the Select
pattern by calling scrollIntoView with block set to nearest whenever ArrowUp or
ArrowDown changes the active row.

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  • src/lib/fonts.ts
  • src/lib/settings.ts
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Feature request: custom system fonts (interface + code picker)

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