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rubjo / victor-mono

A free programming font with cursive italics and ligatures. Donations welcome ❤️
https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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poor cursive italics in uppercase #152

Closed traeanto closed 1 year ago

traeanto commented 1 year ago

i like this font, so please fix it or is there a solution for this?

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rubjo commented 1 year ago

Hi! It looks like an issue with the terminal/app which produces this output. What are you using here?

traeanto commented 1 year ago

kitty 0.27.1

rubjo commented 1 year ago

Ah, kitty. The author has decided that glyphs with variable widths objectively "look terrible", and would evidently prefer the rendering from your screenshot:

"When a symbol does not fit, it will either be rescaled to be smaller or truncated (depending on how much extra space it needs). This is often different from other terminals which just let the character overflow into neighboring cells, which is fine if the neighboring cell is empty, but looks terrible if it is not."

Of course, this isn't true. Victor Mono displays nicely in terminals/editors where a normal font rendering is supported.

See https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/#kitty-is-not-able-to-use-my-favorite-font or otherwise file an issue on that repo: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues