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Blurry fonts in lower DPI setting? (try font-thicken = true)Â #661
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I'm on a 1080p screen, standard DPI (72?). The font immediately looked a bit blurrier than on Terminal.app.
I read #99 and had the idea of changing my settings to "high DPI". Here are the results:
I have no clue where to start looking. I read that sometimes a 0.5px offset has this effect, but this is a long shot.
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franciscod commentedon Oct 12, 2023
an idea that I want to try: use a pixel font like Terminus with antialiasing disabled, maybe it helps to understand what's happening
mitchellh commentedon Oct 12, 2023
I don't think we've ever experienced a tester on macOS with a low DPI screen so this is likely an issue. Do you know if there is any way to enable a low DPI mode on a high DPI screen? I don't know if I have any screens that are low DPI and that's going to make this very hard to test/fix for me.
mitchellh commentedon Oct 12, 2023
Also, can you try setting
font-thicken = truein your config? Apple docs recommend this for low DPI screens (it defaults false in Ghostty). I wonder if that makes some difference. It is an anti-aliasing mode so its possible it makes things worse but it looks like Terminal.app is setting that.franciscod commentedon Oct 12, 2023
Ah, I skimmed the config struct but I missed font-thicken. That did the trick! Thanks!
I'm not sure it's worth the confusion/hassle of enabling that option for lower DPI screens, it'll be likely a very small amount of people :)
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