Linux: Zed cannot find user fonts

[rpbaptist]

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My fonts are in $HOME/.local/share/fonts, but Zed cannot see them.

When I try to set my font to one of these I see an error and it states all the fonts it found on my system, but my user fonts are missing.

Environment

Zed: v0.143.7 (Zed)
OS: Linux X11 ubuntu 24.04
Memory: 31 GiB
Architecture: x86_64

[florenzthedev]

I think I have run into this issue as well and wanted to provide more insight. Zed is only missing some but not all of the fonts installed to $HOME/.local/share/fonts for me. I have several fonts installed there, Atkinson Hyperlegible is detected and can be used but Intel One Mono is completely missing. Both fonts show up in other programs and in fc-list, both fonts are OTF not TTF.

Environment

Zed: v0.146.5
OS: Linux Wayland Debian 12
Memory: 16GB
Architecture: x86_64

[florenzthedev]

It looks like this was an issue with cosmic-text and is fixed in the newest release of cosmic-text. I have created a pull request to update cosmic-text:

• Update cosmic-text to version 0.12.1 #15748

[notpeter]

Here's the upstream issue I think we're waiting on:

• Update fontdb, rustybuzz, and ttf-parser pop-os/cosmic-text#296