Nerd font spacing wrong in gnome terminal

[mcp292]

🗹 Requirements

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🎯 Subject of the issue

Experienced behavior:

Font spacing wrong in gnome-terminal. Downloaded Hack, Noto, RobotoMono, and FiraCode in the same manner described below. Same issue with all.

Expected behavior:

Correct font spacing (see correct rendering in Screenshots).

Example symbols:

See Screenshots.

🔧 Your Setup

• Which font are you using (e.g. Anonymice Powerline Nerd Font Complete.ttf)?
  • Hack Nerd Font Mono, Regular
• Where did you get the file from (download link, self patched, source downloaded from link...)
  • Downloaded tar from assets section of release. Extracted files into ~/.local/share/fonts/Hack.
• Which terminal emulator are you using (e.g. iterm2, urxvt, gnome, konsole)?
  • gnome
• Are you using OS X, Linux or Windows? And which specific version or distribution?
  • Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition)

★ Screenshots (Optional)

Default "Monospace" (Noto Sans Mono, Regular):

Hack Nerd Font Mono, Regular: (Notice how it stretched my terminal on change. Resizing or re-opening terminal did not fix spacing.)

Settings:

Correct rending in Fonts app despite this:

[Finii]

Sorry to hear of your problem ... investigating...

Downloaded 3.1.1 from release page as you linked above.

This looks ok on my machine:

I work on tilix with Delugia (seen in the background), and the font does look different. I do not know any Hack-specific signature shape to look for, but at least it is selected, looks different than my default, and does not have the issue you have.

Did you close all gnome-terminal instances after installing the fonts? Also your gnome terminal looks slightly different from mine.

Ah, typing exit into the terminal I notice how ugly uneven that looks, compare with Delugia below ;-)

But I guess the zero with a vertical-bar-y dot is signature for Hack? Seems like I have Hack in the gnome-terminal there.

I guess that is not a problem of the font but of your setup? Maybe try rebooting. Does the zero look like a Hack zero in your terminal?

[Finii]

I have this version

[mcp292]

Thanks for your help! Reboot fixed it. That's my bad.

[mfdorst]

I also experienced this issue, and closing all terminal windows and reopening them fixed it. I wonder if it has to do with the fonts being installed while the terminal window is open.

[Finii]

For tilix when I want to see newly installed fonts without closing all preexisting windows, tilix --new-process comes in handy. Usually the font list is only read in on application start, and opening yet another window is no restart ;)

See for example in the screenshot here: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/issues/1638#issuecomment-2178195112

Edit: Add link to screenshot