On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
HOWEVER, a different issue is that you are still using those older fonts if they were in your .fonts directory. The older fonts use a different 'hinting' system which when viewed on a newer X/Wayland makes the font look horrible. Since I have been bitten by this with other people I would check that also.
One would hope that the new system was distinguishable from the old and the new vim would emit a warning somewhere, preferably in a place where it would be noticed. I gather that that did not happen.
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