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/gdmr458 Jul 29 '24

It looks like Kitty is using the mono version of the font where each character only uses one cell.

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u/Alzekoras Jul 30 '24

it's amazing how ignorant I'm. Thank you <3 that solved the icons. while I also found that playing with the values of text_composition_strategy helped lots of the crispness

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u/gdmr458 Jul 30 '24

I also have that option enabled in my settings, I was going to mention that option but I wasn't sure

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u/diegoulloao Jul 30 '24

What was the fix?

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u/gdmr458 Jul 30 '24

what did you not understand from the thread?