Monaco Nerd Font display is not normal

[glepnir]

Environment

• mac os 10.13.6

terminal

• iterm 2

Neovim

• neovim 0.3.4

Problem

@ryanoasis Hi your issue template is too complicated for me.Please allow me to break it.i use this monaco nerd font. Is its height abnormal? How to solve it？ like this pic

I noticed that this problem has been around for a long time. I asked a question in this issue. Unfortunately, I didn't get your reply. Is it because the copyright of monaco's font belongs to Apple company and it makes it difficult to fix it?

[ryanoasis]

Thanks for the report

[glepnir]

@ryanoasis thanks for your work

[glepnir]

@ryanoasis hi any update?

[ryanoasis]

@taigacute Sorry no not yet. Trying to catch up with everything

[ryanoasis]

@glepnir Just wondering if this was solved somehow or you just moved on 😞 ?

[fragilelambda]

@ryanoasis This issue happens on mac too, any ideas to fix it?

[ranelpadon]

On my end, figured-out that in iTerm2, I could combine Monaco as main text font with Meslo Nerd Font (or any nerd font) as the icon font. Then, adjusted some property of Monaco (e.g. the 94 value in the screenshot), so that the 2 fonts will align properly:

which is comparable to when I'm using purely the Meslo Nerd Font:

[fingertap]

@ranelpadon What is your colorscheme? What produces that Apple icon?

[ranelpadon]

@fingertap I'm using Alacritty now, not iTerm2. The big Apple logo is from neofetch, the small Apple icon in the command prompt is from Oh My Zsh framework.

[fingertap]

Thanks.

[Finii]

Is the issue that the triangular thing is 'too big' relative to the 'just yellow' on its left?

I guess that should have been handled by #593.

If it is still a problem, please specify which font file and download link to that did you use.
Could be that some fixing-PRs are even not merged yet, hmm.

[fingertap]

For me, changing the fontsize solves the problem. For iterm2, I have to use fontsize=13 to get a perfect appearance. For smaller font, the icons seems not synchronize well with the text:
↓ fontsize = 12

↓ fontsize = 14

[Finii]

Hmm, some small-font rendering problems will be solved by #761.
Will have a look.

Ah, I even see problems with minus and greater-then -> at smallish font sizes. This is probably also what you see.

Unfortunately fontforge is agnostic to the critical setting, so I can not check quickly.

[Finii]

Hmm, Monaco has a rather unproblematic PPEM.

Menlo has a PPEM of 8, which is preserved by fontforge.

But then there are other flags that concern small rendering, maybe they are wrong. The picked commits also handle ppem_to_int ... Maybe worth a try for you, to see if that fixes it.

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