Kitty: disable anti-aliasing

Created on 9 Mar 2018 · 14Comments · Source: kovidgoyal/kitty

i dunno how but kitty manages to escape this in my fonts.conf:

    <match target="font">
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
            <bool>false</bool>
        </edit>
    </match>

as a result, fonts are blur. any idea?

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IIRC kitty does not respect that setting. kitty does not support bitmapped fonts and with scalable fonts antialiasing is required. That said, I wont refuse a PR to add support for that setting, but given that IMO non-antialiased scalable fonts look awful, it's not something I am going to spend time on.

kovidgoyal on 10 Mar 2018

perhaps this should be kept open with a PR's are welcome tag or something.

257 on 12 Mar 2018

I dont want to actually want to encourage people to implement this :) As I said, I wont refuse it, but I dont actually think it is a good idea.

kovidgoyal on 12 Mar 2018

would you accept PR for supporting bitmap fonts?

257 on 12 Mar 2018

No, bitmap fonts dont work with kitty's design (which calls for arbitrary, changeable font sizes). Bitmap fonts only work if you are willing to restrict what font sizes you allow.

kovidgoyal on 12 Mar 2018

And your point is? I never said everyone agreed with me, that is why I am willing to accept a PR for respecting the setting. And FYI kitty does not do subpixel aliasing.

kovidgoyal on 17 Mar 2018

Yes, that is anti-aliasing. Anti-aliasing is different from subpixel anti-aliasing. Kitty does the former and does not do the latter.

kovidgoyal on 17 Mar 2018

👎4

Would you be opposed to a PR that added an option to toggles this setting?

dwrodri on 25 Oct 2018

See my comment at the bottom of #963. You may also want to read #214.

Luflosi on 25 Oct 2018

👍1

Oh, sorry, I thought you meant sub-pixel anti aliasing, my bad. I don't know if @kovidgoyal would want an option to toggle anti-aliasing, we'll have to wait for his answer.

Luflosi on 25 Oct 2018

I already said I am fine with an option for turning off anti-aliasing.

kovidgoyal on 25 Oct 2018

Bumping this thread. Anyone working on a PR for this feature?