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points by a-french-anon 4 days ago | 0 comments

Just a PSA for people who don't know and have a "normal" DPI monitor: bitmap fonts are intentionally not supported by Kitty.

[–] fishgoesblub 3 days ago

It's truly frustrating how more and more terminals refuse to support fonts that are actually sharp.

[–] kristianp 3 days ago

I share your disapointment at the lack of options for bitmap fonts. For linux users the lack of Wayland support means terminals need to do the font support themselves for bitmapped fonts. After using them in Konsole, I wanted to have the same sharp fonts on the web, but that also seems a lost cause.

[–] treems 3 days ago

Doesn't even make sense. It's throwing away free screen real estate by having fonts that blurry, since you have to zoom in for the terminals to be usable.

Luckily Konsole has it covered, but I wish I could use a "cutting edge" terminal like Kitty instead. But oh well.

[–] opan 3 days ago

I'll never take Kitty or its dev seriously for this reason.

[–] supersimpleguy 3 days ago

Correct, Kovid tends to lash out when questioned.[0]

[0]:https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027