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I really _want_ to like WezTerm but the font rendering just looks bad compared to Alacritty. I understand that this is a very personal feeling and plenty of peo
by aftbit 2y ago
I really _want_ to like WezTerm but the font rendering just looks bad compared to Alacritty. I understand that this is a very personal feeling and plenty of people like the WezTerm way better... but not me.
The author is not interested in trying to fix this issue, which is totally fine, as they point out font rendering is very subjective, but I'm also not willing to use a terminal that looks worse, even though I like many other things about it better.
https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/5331 https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/5331
- taejavu 2y agoOh wow I was expecting it to be slightly worse, like the subpixel rendering wasn’t quite right. But that is _bad_, to the extent it looks like a totally different font. Dealbreaker.
- hughesjj 2y agoOh man, fonts are fun. Ironically I moved off of alacrity and on to wezterm for font rendering reasons (p10k+patched nerd fonts), but that was pre pandemic
- taejavu 2y agoI’m using patched nerd fonts seemingly without issue on alacritty, were your problems specifically with p10k?
- duskwuff 2y agoI gave WezTerm a spin and it had some showstopper bugs rendering my preferred font (including a vertical offset on "b" to the extent it looks like "h"). Something's definitely not right here.
- spartanatreyu 2y agoI'd probably try a few fonts first just to see if it's an issue with rendering, or if the font itself is problematic since sometimes it's the font's fault itself when it's being used in a different environment. (font internals are a crazy rabbit hole to dive down) Besides, if you're trying another terminal it's also a great excuse to try other things too! I'm a fan of tools like these where you compare a series of option pairs (in this case font pairs) in succession until it spits out your most preferred option: https://www.codingfont.com/ https://www.codingfont.com/