ShureTech Mono font overlapping with other characters when rendered in bold in terminal

[tukykarmakar]

ShureTech Mono font overlapping with other characters when rendered in bold in terminal

[Finii]

Well, artificially expanding a single font to a complete RIBBI set is a "feature" that also already existed in Windows 3 and probably before that. So for example; MS Word had these BOLD and ITALIC buttons, and they always worked, even if the selected font was an ornamental one, where it did not really make sense. If no Bold or Italic could be found on the system the font was "invented from this air" by transmogrifying the Regular variant.
Back than everyone knew, do not select Bold (or Italic) in Word if you do not have that font, because it kind of renders but looks very ugly.
So this is a "convenience" function that imho should not be there at all.

But well, people seems to like it, or application programmers think people like it, or whatever, but that questionable feature is still available as of today - as you found out.

An autogenerated Bold or Italic can not be good - or font designers would never need to bother designing these.

Also the Italics version was of course an Oblique instead, but people might think they are the same?

Whatever, that is part of what you noticed: There are programs out there that take a Regular font and allow the user to select Bold or Italic even if there is no such font installed and autocreate it on the fly.

Well, as there is no Bold font, how should it be fix it here? If you have issues with the font that some system autogenerates, surely you should raise an issue over there (wherever that is)?

---

Here, in Tilix:

Here, in Writer:

And here a particularly bad example: Gyre Chorus itself is already a slanted / oblique font, and they just slap their artifical "Italic" on top of it, making it more slanted 😆 😭

Regular is Italic with this font

[tukykarmakar]

I just don't understand why it was working fine previously, I didn't change any settings other than selecting ShureTech for monospace fonts from the KDE Settings app. This issue only happens when there's a tab after the bold characters, and I wasn't able to reproduce it in any other editor or text output.

Also, why does it not happen with wider fonts like Source Code Pro and Anonymice Pro?

[Finii]

Hmm, probably Konsole got an update and that introduced a new bug?

Can you roll back a version? You don't specify which Linux you use (so I can't check), but maybe you should check when Terminal had been updated last and if that coincides with the behavioural change.

It seems Konsole has some problems with the Bold stuff, like for example
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432898 (which is open since 2021?!)
or https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470059

You could also try if the problem persists with the Nerd Font Mono (or Nerd Font Propo) variant.

If this happens only with Konsole it's unlikely to be a Nerd Fonts problem ;-)

[tukykarmakar]

I'm using Nobara, a distro based on Fedora, if you want to try reproduce it yourself.
I can't find anything on how to rollback Konsole versions. I'll go ask in the KDE discussion forum about rolling back and about the font issue in Konsole.

Thanks for looking into this.

[tukykarmakar]

I tried out other terminals and it doesn't seem to happen in those. But I also tried out the Konsole Flatpak and it's happening there again. Closing it as it seems to be a KDE issue.

[Finii]

Thank you; hope this will be ironed out somewhen