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Kovid Goyal 2021-10-07 18:31:18 +05:30
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kitty is not able to use my favorite font?
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|kitty| achieves its stellar performance by caching alpha masks of each rendered
character on the GPU, so that every character needs to be rendered only once.
This means it is a strictly character cell based display. As such it can use
only monospace fonts, since every cell in the grid has to be the same size.
|kitty| achieves its stellar performance by caching alpha masks of each
rendered character on the GPU, and rendering them all in parallel. This means
it is a strictly character cell based display. As such it can use only
monospace fonts, since every cell in the grid has to be the same size.
Furthermore, it needs fonts to be freely resizable, so it does not support
bitmapped fonts.