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points by ArchD 4 days ago | 0 comments

I'm not familiar with the legal technicalities around Unicode and fonts to say whether it is the fonts' fault or kitty's fault, but as a user, I see bad rendering (some icon glyphs rendered too small) in kitty but not in ghostty for icon fonts that I don't think are all that obscure.

[–] jcgl 3 days ago

I mean, ultimately more or less agree with you, in that software should work well for the user and do what the user wants. This is a case of this not happening. So, all things being equal, it's bad.

But things aren't all equal--there are tradeoffs at play. Kitty's choice to treat monospace fonts as actually monospaced may not fit everyone, but it's a valid decision in this design space.