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Comment by fishgoesblub

9 days ago

I hope this can somehow improve the font situation. Even on a 1440p monitor, the fonts in Zed are much blurrier than any other editor I've used. I Can't even use bitmap fonts like VSCode.

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TiredOfLife  9 days ago

https://zed.dev/releases/stable#:~:text=Improved%20editor%20...

Fixed last october

  • fishgoesblub  9 days ago

    Tried it when it when that update released and just now, still blurry as ever.

    • wmedrano  9 days ago

      Do you have a screenshot? I just tried Zed out on Linux and biggest issue was that it assumed an rgb subpixel layout.

      - https://pasteboard.co/ZDnQm80dHANx.png

      - Top is wezterm which is correct.

      - Bottom is Zed which uses rgb.

      - Both are using Inconsolata though wezterm claims size is 16 and Zed is at 18. I don't have any screen scaling.

      *edit formatting

TingPing  9 days ago

From what I see wgpu isn’t using the same font stack as chromium. I think the Rust community would be against those dependencies.

You can just convert bitmap fonts, supporting them doesn’t make sense in 2026.

  • fishgoesblub  9 days ago

    bitmap fonts are the only fonts where I can get crisp, sharp, and not blurry text. I don't have an expensive "Retina" style display.