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by thenduks 4402 days ago
I've instantly fallen in love with (the mono version of) this font. One thing that is a bit unfortunate though is it seems to have some odd line-height/descender thing going on.

In Sublime Text 2/3 I can fix this easily with:

    "line_padding_top": 0,
    "line_padding_bottom": -2
But in iTerm2 all you get is a basic 'vertical character spacing' setting, and the best I could do looks like this:

http://ryanfunduk.com/img/scrn/bfada15f2d749c70afcfa94fd0aed...

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Also using iTerm2, but I don't seem to have that problem:

http://cl.ly/VhXX

I haven't touched any vertical and horizontal spacing settings.

Interesting. If I leave the spacing settings closer to the default then it looks like this:

http://ryanfunduk.com/img/scrn/14bdd3324070f790b7f1c54b1b343...

Which looks more like your screenshot, and is no longer lopsided, but IMO still looks pretty bad. I guess I just like tight lines. The huge cursor block is... I don't know distracting somehow. My current terminal uses plain old Menlo and it looks like this:

http://ryanfunduk.com/img/scrn/827024555adee7d98c3a926c76c4f...

I don't mind my terminal font being different than my editor, so I'll still get a lot of use out of Fira.