Incorrect spacing of terminal font

[LoricAndre]

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I have issues with the font rendering in Zed's terminal : The characters seem to be 'grouped' 5 by 5, with an added space every 5 characters.

The font used here is JetBrains Mono Nerd Font, but the same happens with every monospace font I've tried, including the default one.

I anyone else having this issue ?

Shell: zsh
Prompt: starship

Environment

Zed: v1.0.0 (Zed Dev c90263d)
OS: Linux 1.0.0
Memory: 15.2 GiB
Architecture: x86_64

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[lemeb]

Can confirm here, it's very weird. Take these:

Look, for example, at the space between "9" and "0": it changes dramatically from line to line -- even from font size to font size. (I'm using Menlo on MacOS here, but it's the same for every font).

What I'm finding, btw, is a little different that @LoricAndre: the blank is not happening every 5 spaces, but more randomly. See these screenshots:

Different fonts also produce different blank space results.

I love Zed so far, but this is pretty annoying to the eye...

Thanks :)

[forGGe]

I can see the same behaviour in the editor. The weird grouping depends on the font size and type. For bunch of fonts I've tried there is always a size when this artifact is gone

This is the default font size 14:

...and the size 15:

Also I'm experiencing an issue with blurred fonts, same as in #7992

Maybe it's all related.

[sadmac7000]

I've noticed this too. I'll add that the spacing between lines is much worse for me.

Here's output from a maze generator I wrote in the vscode terminal:

And here's the same program run in Zed:

These are characters from the unicode block for drawing terminal line art. They're always supposed to connect up. I haven't tried a curses app yet but I imagine it would look very strange.

[SomeoneToIgnore]

#15503 (comment) hints there could be a way to fix this?
Worth a try at least.

[sadmac7000]

Not perfect, but better!

[LoricAndre]

I already had it enabled 😞

[austinorth]

The ends of my Starship Powerline theme are suffering from this issue as well, I believe. Hack Nerd Font.

[lego-eden]

I have this issue as well on linux.

[EmeraldMastaMC]

I have the same problem, the prompt seems blocky. On linux here

[ahmet-cetinkaya]

Same issue

[swolfenden9]

Same issue here (MacOS, p10k)

[wesharper]

I added the following to my settings.json per the referenced issue and it resolved my issues with starship rendering:

  "terminal": {
    "line_height": "standard"
  }

[ahmet-cetinkaya]

I added the following to my settings.json per the referenced issue and it resolved my issues with starship rendering:

  "terminal": {
    "line_height": "standard"
  }

Thanks, that's works.

[ddembo]

I added the following to my settings.json per the referenced issue and it resolved my issues with starship rendering:

  "terminal": {
    "line_height": "standard"
  }

Does not resolve issue with Powerline 10k, multiple 'nerd' family fonts + Fira Code tested.

[awedpotato767]

Similar thing happenning to my terminal window.
In addition (may be unrelated) the gradient characters seem to be reverting back to the standard ascii implementation as opposed to the ones provided by my fonts.
(using arch linux/nvidia and a working install of meslo LGS Nerd font. same issue occurs with any other font to my knowledge.)

For context, here is a screenshot from foot (my preferred terminal emulator) using the same font.

[chmousset]

Similar issue here on Linux (Manjaro KDE, Wayland session with sddm, Powerline 10k, Noto & Nert fonts)

With "line_height": "standard" it's a bit better, but still not perfect.