Can we get a proper modern terminal font ? about terminal

[bitcrazed]

Hey @PhMajerus - the issue you describe isn't really an issue with Consolas (or any single font). It's more to do with the fact that the Console currently doesn't support "font-fallback" - a technique that allows modern text rendering systems to dynamically find and load fonts that contain glyphs that are missing from the currently selected font.

One way to mitigate this issue, is to use a font that contains all/more of the glyphs one might want to render. Alas, no single font/font-set contains every visible glyph - that would end up being a HUGE font. Some font packs combine several fonts, glyphs, and symbols into a single font file, but these font sets rarely include all the fonts everyone needs.

Alas, Console's current rendering system doesn't support font-fallback, so we're unable to render many characters (e.g. emoji, powerline, some East Asian languages) resulting in many visual rendering issues, some of which you note above.

Rest assured though, we're figuring out a future plan that'll allow us to remedy these (and many other) issues.

[PhMajerus]

Thanks @zadjii-msft and @bitcrazed for chiming in, good to hear you're still pushing to get more improvements into conhost. I know building a consistent set of hundreds of characters must take a while, just knowing that we'll get it at some point is great news!

Consolas does have some issues with block drawing characters.
I want to make sure you understand what I mean by proper pixel-hinting for all box and line drawing characters. The problem is mostly for ANSI-art and apps using these blocks to build patterns. U+2591, U+2592, U+2593 are supposed to generate perfect checkerboard patterns when several are displayed next to each other (horizontally as well as vertically).
In Consolas, they look ok by themselves, but the pattern doesn't properly repeat across chars, as seen in the following screenshot:

Note the issue also depends on the font size and DPI settings, it can get even more visible than this.

[be5invis]

Hmm, do you need it being compatible with CJK?
If so you can try Iosevka...

[zadjii-msft]

Hey wadda ya know, we're already working on this. Just so happens to be a longer process then one might think to get a typeface ready to ship to the world.

[bitcrazed]

Great feedback, thanks for sharing. Sending to our font lead now :)

If you don't mind, I'll close this issue for now since this is one of our major priorities and doesn't need to be tracked as a pending issue. Feel free to add comments if you think we've missed something.