How can I determine what font faces are available for me to use with Sublime Text 3?

From your Finder, open Applications » Font Book.app. It will show you a list of all fonts installed on your system:

You can use all of these in Sublime Text (however you may want try only Fixed Width fonts for coding) by adding this in your preferences – just substitute the name of the font:

{
  "font_face": "Source Code Pro"
}

Font Variants

(based on a suggested edit by @Merlin)

If you want to choose font variants, this becomes more complicated. An example (Sublime Text 3, macOS).

Font name in Font Book: Input Mono Compressed Extra Light Italic
Font filename: InputMonoCompressed-ExtraLightItalic.ttf

In your settings, you then have to use:

"font_face": "InputMonoCompressed-ExtraLightItalic",

That is, go with the filename minus extension.

The following works for "Input Mono Compressed Extra Light":

  "font_face": "InputMonoCompressed ExLight",

The following attempts didn't work:

  "font_face": "Input Mono Compressed Extra Light Italic",
  "font_face": "InputMonoCompressed ExtraLightItalic",
  "font_face": "InputMonoCompressedExtraLightItalic",
  "font_face": "InputMonoCompressed ExLightItalic",
  // and more permutations
  "font_face": "Input Mono Compressed ExLight",

Which is a little maddening considering Input Mono Compressed did work for the non-'Extra Light' version. I never did discover the right permutations and shortening to get the Extra Light Italic to work.

slhck

Posted 2013-12-26T16:37:25.777

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What syntax allows you to specify Regular, ExtraLight, etc.? – Merlin – 2019-04-04T15:45:32.837

@Merlin Apparently not possible: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/request-monospace-font-family-typeface-variants/34038

– slhck – 2019-04-04T15:49:39.023

1I experimented with typing exactly as shown in fontbook, with spaces between words removed. This worked for example: ‘InputMonoCondensed ExtraLight’. The spacing or lack of was important, but chars were all from Font Book name. – Merlin – 2019-04-05T17:14:27.327

Good to know, @Merlin! Feel free to suggest an edit to the answer to reflect that. – slhck – 2019-04-05T19:00:50.283

@Merlin Your initial edit was rejected, but I took parts of it and reordered it to put the actual answer on top. – slhck – 2019-04-09T07:25:48.620

Sublime Text can use the same fonts as on your OS – slhck – 2013-12-26T16:41:27.537

Great. How can I determine what fonts are available on my OS, which is Mac - Mavericks, incidentally. – jononomo – 2013-12-26T16:46:46.040

Answering my own question - on Mac, use the Font Book app. – jononomo – 2013-12-26T16:51:19.640

How can I determine what font faces are available for me to use with Sublime Text 3?

Answers

Font Variants