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1080p is the most popular screen resolution by far, and on regular monitors 1080p is "low DPI". https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey https://store.steampowe

by gkbrk 9mo ago

1080p is the most popular screen resolution by far, and on regular monitors 1080p is "low DPI". https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

evanjrowley 9mo ago
It blows my mind that the most ubiquitous computer screen resolution worldwide is considered too niche for decent support by the Zed project. Hopefully that will change in 2026?
- Octoth0rpe 9mo ago
  The gamer market while overlapping with the developer market, is not a perfect circle. And where the circle does overlap, devs often work on a different display than they game on.
- stouset 9mo ago
  Perhaps reserve your mind being blown for situations where the GP hasn’t confused pixel count and pixel density. Zed “supports” 1080p monitors just fine. Supports is in quotes because it doesn’t need to do anything nor care at all about the count of pixels on the screen.
  - gkbrk 9mo ago
    If you can call the left image [1] "supporting 1080p" I guess Zed supports it. But it looks like VS Code and other editors somehow support it better without getting blurry. Keep in mind that Zed developers [2] consider blurry fonts on low DPI displays a Priority 1 issue, and a reproducible bug that is commonly encountered. I'm sure if there was no blurry font issue with Zed, they would just close this bug report. [1]: https://ibb.co/zVS0Qz6z https://ibb.co/zVS0Qz6z [2]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
    - stouset 9mo ago
      Low DPI fonts and 1080p resolution are orthogonal concerns. Pixel count and pixel density are not the same thing.
- freehorse 9mo ago
  I do not doubt some people experience some issues, but I have regularly used zed with 1080p and 1440p 24" monitors (on macos) and I never experienced any font rendering problem. Saying "zed does not render fonts at low dpi monitors well" is a bit of an exaggeration.
drcongo 9mo ago
"1080p is the most popular screen resolution by far" for people who use Steam and therefore may be optimising for framerate or connecting to a TV, and even that's pretty meaningless without knowing the physical dimensions of the screen. 1080p is a screen resolution, DPI is screen density - 1080p on a phone is pretty high DPI.
stouset 9mo ago
1080p is neither high nor low DPI (dots per inch). DPI requires knowing the physical size of a screen, not simply the number of pixels.
- mkl 9mo ago
  Try finding a new 1080p screen small enough to count as high DPI; there aren't many! Using 218ppi from elsewhere in the thread as the threshold, you'd need a 10 inch 1920×1080 screen to achieve it, so a 1080p computer screen is almost certainly low DPI.

by gkbrk 9mo ago

1080p is the most popular screen resolution by far, and on regular monitors 1080p is "low DPI". https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

evanjrowley 9mo ago

It blows my mind that the most ubiquitous computer screen resolution worldwide is considered too niche for decent support by the Zed project. Hopefully that will change in 2026?

Octoth0rpe 9mo ago
The gamer market while overlapping with the developer market, is not a perfect circle. And where the circle does overlap, devs often work on a different display than they game on.
stouset 9mo ago
Perhaps reserve your mind being blown for situations where the GP hasn’t confused pixel count and pixel density. Zed “supports” 1080p monitors just fine. Supports is in quotes because it doesn’t need to do anything nor care at all about the count of pixels on the screen.
- gkbrk 9mo ago
  If you can call the left image [1] "supporting 1080p" I guess Zed supports it. But it looks like VS Code and other editors somehow support it better without getting blurry. Keep in mind that Zed developers [2] consider blurry fonts on low DPI displays a Priority 1 issue, and a reproducible bug that is commonly encountered. I'm sure if there was no blurry font issue with Zed, they would just close this bug report. [1]: https://ibb.co/zVS0Qz6z https://ibb.co/zVS0Qz6z [2]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
  - stouset 9mo ago
    Low DPI fonts and 1080p resolution are orthogonal concerns. Pixel count and pixel density are not the same thing.
freehorse 9mo ago
I do not doubt some people experience some issues, but I have regularly used zed with 1080p and 1440p 24" monitors (on macos) and I never experienced any font rendering problem. Saying "zed does not render fonts at low dpi monitors well" is a bit of an exaggeration.

drcongo 9mo ago

"1080p is the most popular screen resolution by far" for people who use Steam and therefore may be optimising for framerate or connecting to a TV, and even that's pretty meaningless without knowing the physical dimensions of the screen. 1080p is a screen resolution, DPI is screen density - 1080p on a phone is pretty high DPI.

stouset 9mo ago

1080p is neither high nor low DPI (dots per inch). DPI requires knowing the physical size of a screen, not simply the number of pixels.

mkl 9mo ago
Try finding a new 1080p screen small enough to count as high DPI; there aren't many! Using 218ppi from elsewhere in the thread as the threshold, you'd need a 10 inch 1920×1080 screen to achieve it, so a 1080p computer screen is almost certainly low DPI.