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stefanhaustein / TerminalImageViewer

Small C++ program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters
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Which font to use? #88

Closed KoB-Kirito closed 2 years ago

KoB-Kirito commented 3 years ago

Hey, nice app, but I got some problems with the font.

I'm using Windows Powershell, and there Lucida Console is the default. Pretty, but almost none of the needed chars there.

I installed Inconsolata and Fira Code as you suggested, but: Inconsolata is quite ugly (in my opinion) and has weird spacing and misalignments in the images. Fire Code is nice, but some chars are missing (I'm getting some ? in the images).

So what font would you suggest?

aaronliu0130 commented 3 years ago

I'd suggest San Francisco Mono(Mac pkg herehttps://developer.apple.com/fonts/, otf files herehttps://github.com/supercomputra/SF-Mono-Font), Hackhttps://sourcefoundry.org/hack/, and Ubuntu Monohttps://design.ubuntu.com/font/.

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Hey, nice app, but I got some problems with the font.

I'm using Windows Powershell, and there Lucida Console is the default. Pretty, but almost none of the needed chars there.

I installed Inconsolata and Fira Code as you suggested, but: Inconsolata is quite ugly (in my opinion) and has weird spacing and misalignments in the images. Fire Code is nice, but some chars are missing (I'm getting some ? in the images).

So what font would you suggest?

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clort81 commented 3 years ago

Almost no fonts render the traingular glyphs correctly. They do so incorrectly.

Unscii renders them correctly. http://pelulamu.net/unscii/

Also Microsoft monospace fonts tend to miss some needed block chars.

stefanhaustein commented 3 years ago

I think we have disabled the triangular glyphs for that reason.