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Clearly there is a problem rendering bold fonts in the terminal.The gedit version of Monaco looks much better,and is rendered properly.

I have also tried the Monaco font on Gvim,and terminator.They have the same issue(not being rendered properly). Only gedit seems to render it properly.

What could be the reason and is there a way to fix it?

Mad-scientist
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I do not really see a problem here, although I concede the rendering is different.

Does this effect also occur with other fonts? The problem may be the following: The Monaco font that I was able to get my hands on simply does not have a bold variant. That would mean the bold must be faked, and different renderers seem to come to quite different results.

MPi
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Have you tried playing with the profile options in terminator? I just had a look and found an option for "Anti-alias text". Maybe you could try that and see if it makes the font look as you expect it to look.

To find the option,

  • right click on the terminator window,
  • select "Preferences"
  • choose the "Profiles" tab
  • under the "General" (sub) tab there is an option called "Anti-alias" text.

Terminator preferences

This is in version 0.95 of terminator. I did have a quick look and couldn't find any corresponding option in gnome terminal or gedit.

Hamish Downer
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