Installing Adobe Source Code Pro Font for Sublime Text 2

This guide will help you get Adobe’s Source Code Pro font installed for use with Sublime Text 2. More information about this font can be found here.

First, you will need to grab a copy of the font. It’s available for free at:

https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro/downloads

Next, you will want to install the font onto your system.

For Mac users,

  Open Font Book application.

              Chose the + button under Font.

              Locate and navigate to the font you would like to install.

For Windows users,

        Locate and navigate to where the font is saved.

        Select all desired fonts in the directory. CTRL+SHIFT.

        Right-click and chose install.

Congratulations! You now have the Adobe Source Code Pro font installed on your system. The next step will be getting it to work within Sublime Text 2 for some coding goodness.

To change font in Sublime Text 2,

       Open up Sublime Text 2.

       Click on Preferences menu and choose: Settings-User.

  Add in the following lines to this file:         

"font_face": "Source Code Pro",

"font_size": 12

        Save file to make changes. 

Note: If you look in Preferences menu/Settings-Default you can find many other things that can be changed within Sublime Text 2. Try your own customizations to fit your needs.

There you have it! You have now installed Adobe Source Code Pro and you’re ready to bang out some killer code!