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Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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Please add support for Open Type Bitmap fonts #12629

Open DanPartelly opened 1 month ago

DanPartelly commented 1 month ago

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Please consider adding support for open type bitmap fonts in Zed. Currently I cannot use them, Zed complains for example that Terminus is not a valid font selection.

Currently, true type font rendering is subjectively bad on Linux (and prolly other OSes) on any normal DPI monitors. The blurriness is pretty high, which makes it very uncomfortable for many eyes, especially for older persons. Until the vast majority of used monitors are 180+ DPI I believe support for bitmaps is crucial to support long programming sessions in any editor. The difference in crispiness of the text is enormous, and it is very easy on the eyes of the user.

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AlexDaniel commented 2 weeks ago

Hm. In VS Code, I'm using a TTF version of terminus that is very crisp. However, in Zed, it's very blurry. I think an alternative to this is to have better TTF support.

AlexDaniel commented 1 week ago

See also: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomment-2177138016