How to specify bold font in VS Code editor?

This is a bug with Atom: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/3790

A workaround is to strip spaces and add a hyphen between the font name and the weight.

Envy Code R Bold == EnvyCodeR-Bold

ref: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/381#issuecomment-163356103

In your settings.json .vscode add this line:

"editor.fontWeight": "bold"

Here is what I did trying to solve the same issue on a Mac. I installed the font on my Mac the usual way:

• double-click on the .ttf file and click on Install Font

The font had some variants, I wanted to use one of them on vs-code.

When you install the font on your Mac an application called Font Book pops up (see screenshot).

• Click on the i icon highlighted in the screenshot, it will give you the information of the Postscript name of the font.
• copy-paste this value (the Postscript name value) into vs-code's settings -> Editor: Font Family as your first item in the list.

Result: