Monospaced Font seems different in different Matlab versions...

I know this question sounds dumb.... But it bothers me. Recently I've installed the Matlab R2014b, but the font in workplace seems to be different form previous version.

In Matlab R2013a, the font looks like:

However in Matlab R2014b, the font looks like:

In both version, the font "Monospaced" are chosen, but the font turns out to be different. I really prefer the previous font, so are there anyway to change the font to keep the old one?

Thanks!!

[song yuxuan]

I prefer R2014b lol

Answer 1

[Jan]

The font, which is used by the generiv name "monospaced", changes between Matlab versions. I do not know, why MathWorks decided to use which font, but this is their choice.

If you want a specific font, do not use "monospaced", but this specific font.

There was an additional change in the optices, when MathWorks has implemented font smoothing in the command window. In my opionion this has reduced the readability, but this is not enough for me to stick at R2009a (as far as I remember).

Answer 2

[Omer Faruk Bingol]

I started having this problem after installing R2021b Prerelease (previous version was R2021a).

[Sean de Wolski]

The new editor in 21b has a new font. You can set it back to courier with this, and any other adjustments you want:

s = settings;
s.matlab.fonts.custom.editor.FontToUse.PersonalValue = "CustomFont";
s.matlab.fonts.custom.editor.Name.PersonalValue = "Courier New";

[Omer Faruk Bingol]

Thanks, but it doesn't actually bring back the previous font.

The previous one looked much like this (would not be identical, since this is from an old latex-generated listing that mimics MATLAB Editor's style):

The new one looks like this (after the proposed fix):

I may not be remembering the exact appearance of the previous font but I think I remember the "0"s (zero) having a dot inside their rings :) Maybe the scaling is off? Because it looks very small to me (although that could be attributed to the fact that I've been coding on Visual Studio -which has a larger font- a lot lately) and increasing the font size does not help :/ Maybe someone could share a screenshot from their R2021a or earlier version.

[Sean de Wolski]

s.matlab.fonts.custom.editor.Size.PersonalValue = 12; % in point

To adjust the size. Also check your old font in preferences.

[Omer Faruk Bingol]

I was using everything as default. The size adjustment is also not helping. Anyways, thanks anyway.

[Marko]

I have a similar problem when moving to R2022b from 2018a. The font "Consolas" and "Monospaced" seems to have the same style, however, in R2018a "Monospaced" looks different compared to "Consolas".

[Jan]

Yes, this is possible. Why do you call this a "problem"? If you want a specific font, use a specific font. If you want to use the standard font, which is changed by MathWorks due to reasons of fashion, use the generic "mono-spaced".

[Marko]

Thank you for your explanation Jan. For me it is a problem, since I don't know which font is used as "mono-spaced" in the earlier version. Unfortunately I don't know which one to set to get the same font as in the R2018a version. Would be very grateful for any hint!

[DGM]

I'm not sure, but in R2015b and R2019b (linux), the "Monospaced" alias appears very similar to either:

• DejaVu Sans Mono
• Bitstream Vera Sans Mono

They're very similar, but I'm going to guess the latter, simply because there are dozens of redundant copies of bitstream vera fonts strewn throughout the installations.