Inconsolata powerline characters don't line up correctly

[acarl005]

🗹 Requirements

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🎯 Subject of the issue

Experienced behavior:

Powerline characters in Inconsolata Nerd Font do not line up properly. This is happening in multiple terminals, e.g.

Alacritty:

Terminal.app:

Expected behavior:

The powerline characters should line up as they do with Bitstream Vera Mono Nerd Font:

Example symbols:

 andy  ﱮ ~/s/ls-go    master []   v1.19.2 $

🔧 Your Setup

• Which font are you using (e.g. Anonymice Powerline Nerd Font Complete.ttf)?
  • Inconsolata Nerd Font Mono
  • brew install --cask font-inconsolata-nerd-font
• Alacritty or Terminal.app (the included terminal with MacOS)
• MacOS Venture 13.0

[Finii]

The cask is outdated...

You can try to (manually) install the fonts from the (v2.2.2) release page:
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.2.2/Inconsolata.zip

Hmm, but even with 2.2.2 they DO look somehow weird, not as bad, but still:

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Link to #989, we need to update a lot of the casks. Who maintains them 😬

[Finii]

Oh, my bad... I used Inconsolata which gets the powerline symbols from some other font. When I select the correct font it looks good:

Also checked kitty, and there it looks ok.
It = v2.2.2.

[NikitaNaumenko]

Same issue, I download font from release page https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.2.2/iA-Writer.zip and install it manually,
OS : MacOS
Term: Alacritty
Font: iM Writing Mono S Regular Nerd Font Complete

But it looks better with iM Writing Mono S Regular Nerd Font Complete Mono

[Finii]

Hmm, can not reproduce...

$ curl -LO https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.2.2/iA-Writer.zip
$ unzip -d iMwriting iA-Writer.zip
$ cp iMwriting/iM\ Writing\ Mono\ S\ Regular\ Nerd\ Font\ Complete.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts
$ fc-list | grep -i writ                                                                   
/home/fini/.local/share/fonts/iM Writing Mono S Regular Nerd Font Complete.ttf: iMWritingMonoS Nerd Font:style=Regular

Edit ./alacritty.yml:

# Font configuration
font:
  normal:
    family: iMWritingMonoS Nerd Font
    style: Regular

Run

$ ~/git/alacritty/target/release/alacritty --config-file ./alacritty.yml

(The font in tilix is Delugia).

My alacritty is not really up to date, it's alacritty 0.11.0-dev (589c1e9) I built some months(?) ago.

Sure you entered the correct family name in your config?

Same goes to @acarl005: Please show your alacritty config and relevant fc-list output.

[NikitaNaumenko]

First of all, thanks for your reply and your help!
My alacritty version is:

alacritty -v
Created log file at "/var/folders/bm/bzygt4_173vct2xrvn56zk940000gn/T/Alacritty-770.log"
[0.000003666s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Welcome to Alacritty
[0.000149458s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Version 0.11.0 (8dbaa0b)
[0.000978000s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Configuration files loaded from:
"/Users/nikitanaumenko/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml"
"/Users/nikitanaumenko/.config/alacritty/dracula.yml"
[0.077662833s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Running on Apple M1
[0.077702625s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Using OpenGL 3.3 renderer
[0.080178583s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Display scale factor: 2
[0.081813583s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Cell size: 18 x 39
[0.081833208s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Padding: 0 x 0
[0.081844333s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Width: 1600, Height: 1200
[0.081921375s] [INFO ] [alacritty] PTY dimensions: 30 x 88
[0.083628500s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Initialisation complete
[0.118516833s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Padding: 0 x 0
[0.118549875s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Width: 1600, Height: 1200
[2.359127041s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Goodbye

I repeat all your steps:
fc-list output

➜ fc-list | grep -i writ
Fontconfig warning: ignoring UTF-8: not a valid region tag
/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/AmericanTypewriter.ttc: American Typewriter:style=Regular
/Users/nikitanaumenko/Library/Fonts/iM Writing Mono S Regular Nerd Font Complete Mono.ttf: iMWritingMonoS Nerd Font Mono:style=Regular
/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/AmericanTypewriter.ttc: American Typewriter:style=Semibold
/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/AmericanTypewriter.ttc: American Typewriter:style=Condensed Light
/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/AmericanTypewriter.ttc: American Typewriter:style=Condensed Bold
/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/AmericanTypewriter.ttc: American Typewriter:style=Condensed
/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/AmericanTypewriter.ttc: American Typewriter:style=Bold
/Users/nikitanaumenko/.local/share/fonts/iM Writing Mono S Regular Nerd Font Complete.ttf: iMWritingMonoS Nerd Font:style=Regular
/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/AmericanTypewriter.ttc: American Typewriter:style=Light

My alacritty config is:

Same screenshot with Mono:

[NikitaNaumenko]

pfff I dont know what happened, but now it works better, I do nothing, just opened my laptop, and I cannot reproduce it any more

[acarl005]

Looks perfect for me on all terminal ems after installing v2.2.2 from release page! Thanks @Finii! It looks like the long-term resolution here is for the Homebrew packages to be updated more easily. I understand maintaining a bunch of fresh packages on various different registries is a lot of work..

[Finii]

@NikitaNaumenko

I dont know what happened, but now it works better

It's called self healing ;-)

Thanks for notifying back!

@acarl005 We create the needed files already, it would be not too much work to automate the PRs to update the casks. But every item takes power and time. It definitively increased in prio now.
I tried to list all packag-eteers here: #881 (reply in thread) and Homebrew is one of the most easy ones to update.
Also thanks for your information.

[hotsno]

I'm having this issue on Alacritty and iTerm. I tried v2.3.1 of Meslo and iA-Writer.

[Finii]

Sorry to hear you have problems.  Thanks for reporting.  I guess this is #1056, but will check. 

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[hotsno]

I restarted my computer after reading that someone above just had their issue resolved after closing their laptop... and it magically became better now. Maybe a macOS thing.

The "blur" part of my prompt (the leftmost part of my prompt in the screenshots above) is still having issues in iTerm, though. For the time being I just disabled it.

Update: I just turned on the "anti-alias" setting in iTerm and now the angle is a lot smoother than in this screenshot.

[hotsno]

I just realized, I think I was trying v2.2.2 in the screenshot above. I just tried v2.3.1 and restarted my computer and am having the same issues as in the initially.

Sorry for spamming the thread.

[Finii]

I believe all reports were using older fonts and proved to be resolved with 2.3.3

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