Feature wish: sub-pixel font hinting / anti-aliasing
bluenote10 opened this issue · 1 comments
First of all: A big thank you for writing and maintaining this project; this is great!
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be great to have sub-pixel hinting for maximizing the readability of fonts (especially at small font sizes).
Comparing e.g. kitty to gnome-terminal my immediate impression was that the fonts in kitty look worse than in gnome-terminal. Comparing the two with similar theme settings:
In kitty glyph rendering looks like this (magnified):
Whereas in gnome-terminal it is rendered like this:
It is hard to describe the difference how it actually looks on the screen, but for me it makes a pretty huge difference in terms of legibility.
Describe the solution you'd like
Basically "just" the common sub-pixel font hinting, but I've no idea how hard it would be to accomplish that, given that kitty renders fonts on the GPU.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Squinting my eyes a bit more 😉
Additional context
Already included above.
dup of #214