v2 heights were much better in a terminal with background colors

[chrisant996]

When background colors exist in a terminal, the character cells glyphs within a character cell in Fira Code v6.2 are taller than in v2.0, which causes the tops of characters to be too close to the bottom of the background of text in the line above it.

Is there some way to compile the font using the old v2.0 vertical spacing?

I've been continuing to use v2.0 for years now, because Fira Code is my favorite font but the heights after v2.0 are not as conducive for use in a terminal where background colors are applied.

For example, look at each line with a background color in the screenshot below, versus the line below it. Especially for the [] on the last line in the screenshot. Also, it looks "off" to have half the space above a capital letter as below the capital letter (particularly visible when a run of text has a background color different from the rest of the terminal display).

Also, I just noticed that the vertical position of a strikethrough line is way off in v6.2, at least when rendered by Windows Terminal (look at the green text immediately below the "Debt" line in the screenshot).

[tonsky]

I plan to revisit that in v7 and see what can be done. I agree it’s unbalanced

[chrisant996]

@tonsky Thank you for the labor of love that you pour into Fira Code! It's by far my favorite terminal font ever, and I appreciate all the detailed work you put into the ligatures, and things like progress indicators! (JetBrains Mono is my second favorite, for whatever it's worth.)