Powerline arrows aren't as large as the text bounding box

[noahadvs]

Powerline arrows aren't as large as the text bounding box. This causes odd seams and extra space above the top and below the bottom of Powerline arrow characters.

JetBrains Mono 10pts:

Hack 10pts (no seams or extra space above and below arrows):

Raw string:

  ✗ 

Starship prompt configuration:

[character]
format = "[ ](fg:white bg:black)$symbol "
success_symbol = "[](fg:black)"
error_symbol = "[](fg:black bg:red)[ ✗ ](bg:red)[](fg:red)"

System info

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210114

Application: Konsole (version 21.03.70, git master)

Qt Version: 5.15.2

FreeType version: 2.10.4

FreeType settings: antialiasing, slight hinting, RGB sub-pixel rendering

Screen resolution: 1920x1080

Scale factor: 1x

[philippnurullin]

Hi @noahadvs Yes, this is definitely can be improved. Thanks for the feedback.

[philippnurullin]

Pelase grab files from here https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/tree/master/fonts to confirm positive change.

[noahadvs]

The height is much better now, but there is still a seam along the left side of the arrow:

[philippnurullin]

Please test with latest update in master https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/tree/master/fonts

[noahadvs]

It still has the seam:

Just to be sure I'm updating correctly, here's what I did:

cd ~/src/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/fonts/ttf/
git pull
sudo cp -t /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ ./*
fc-cache -f -v

Then I restarted every app that was using JetBrains Mono

[philippnurullin]

Made more modifications in the latest release → https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/releases/tag/v2.225. If this not change the result to expected, please make another issue dedicated to the gap and we will continue to look for a solution.
Closing this issue because the original problem is solved.

[noahadvs]

The seam problem is fixed now too, so no need for me to make a new issue. Thanks!