Option for alternate rendering of shade characters about kitty HOT 4 CLOSED

I'm afraid not, kitty renders these characters as their appearance is
specified in the Unicode standard. Having a standard rendering allows
writes of programs running in kitty to rely on that appearance in their
code.

Personally speaking, I would like shade characters to be rendered as
semi-transparent blocks, IMO that's the most useful, but...

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I found a possible solution after-all.

Force the grid's dimensions to be even, spread the left-over columns/rows evenly over the character instead of putting them all at the end, and hide them with some semi-transparent pixels.

I expected this to just create a blurry mess similar to what resampling would do, but it actually works very well. And as a side-effect the 4x4 checkerboard no longer turns into a 5x4 one at small font sizes (I assume that this wasn't intentional in the first place)

(the opacity values can probably be fine-tuned to make it better)

The 4x4 turning into a 5x4 when small:
(Current)
(Alternate)

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What grid's dimensions? And you are welcome to send a PR to improve their rendering as long a their apperance remains consistent with the unicode spec.

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by grid dimensions i mean the number of squares in the pattern along each axis. I'll send a PR after fixing a (literal) corner case

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