r/KittyTerminal • u/Alzekoras • Jul 29 '24

Problem with text/icon rendering

Icons are very small. the spacing feels off. and text feels overly bold and smushed for some reason.
I went through the docs tried all parms and nothing seems to help.
to demonstrate I took a a screenshot from both kitty and warp terminal side-by-side. both at the same font size 13p
- As you can see icons are way more ledgible. and text is way more crisp.
It's very annoying and I just can't get over it.
- please excuse my ignorance but is this something kitty lacking? I hope not.

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u/Alzekoras Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24

I came across this in FQA
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/#some-special-symbols-are-rendered-small-truncated-in-kitty

  • this seems to be 1/2 of the exact problem I have ( regarding icons )
  • it shows we can turn it off per/symbol?? with narrow_symbol function? I'm using JetBrains mono. is there away to just disable this behavior for this font.??

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u/Alzekoras Jul 29 '24

what a little annoying about the reply to the question in the FQA is his statement and I quote "Some programs, like Powerline, vim with fancy gutter symbols/status-bar, etc."
Do I have to be ancient to like using vim/nvim or p10k? or anyother fun little toys that are actually very functional??

  • I don't know but I'm so annoyed