Do the same fonts across apps feel different to you (terminal, browser, IDE, etc.)? Do you use the same one(s) across?

2 years ago by TheTwelveYearOld to c/unixporn

I recently switched from Code Saver to my own Iosevka configuration, and at first I found it to look great in Neovide but too narrow in my terminal, especially with FFmpeg output. I thought maybe it was due to font rendering differences, like spacing or character widths. But then I took a screenshot with the font sizes set the same in both apps, and overlaid a word in one app to another ... and the text is rendered the same.

FFmpeg output for reference:

[out#0/mp4 @ 0x600000f14000] video:232962KiB audio:395KiB subtitle:0KiB other streams:0KiB global headers:0KiB muxing overhead: 0.017517%
frame= 1519 fps= 36 q=-1.0 Lsize=  233398KiB time=00:00:25.53 bitrate=74882.4kbits/s speed=0.606x
[libx264 @ 0x15a0062a0] frame I:18    Avg QP: 5.27  size:441876
[libx264 @ 0x15a0062a0] frame P:622   Avg QP: 8.04  size:264060
[libx264 @ 0x15a0062a0] frame B:879   Avg QP: 9.91  size: 75488
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peron 4 points a year ago

Yup! I feed the same font may appear different in different applications. But its just an illusion, they are just the same.

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