I'm on Windows 7 with Vim 7.4, and Unicode symbols with the Hack font look awful. Am I missing a setting somewhere? Is there a way to improve this?For reference, this is gvim:and this is atom:I've also done the same with the Consolas font, and it's still bad.This issue also exists in terminal vim, but it is slightly better.
Why do symbols look ugly in gvim?
gvim;microsoft windows;unicode;font
If you have a recent Vim, you may try to enable DirectX rendering. It should improve wide font rendering, among other things. Here's an example vimrc snip:if has(gui_running)    set guioptions=icpM    if has('win32') || has('win64')        if (v:version == 704 && has(patch393)) || v:version > 704            set renderoptions=type:directx,level:0.75,gamma:1.25,contrast:0.25,                        \geom:1,renmode:5,taamode:1        endifendifReference :h ropSome other remarks, more generic, which may or may not be useful in your case:Font spacing (horizontal, vertical) sometimes is not the same between Linux, Mac and Windows (in Vim, but also happens with other apps, e.g. Emacs). You can tweak those using set linespace=... (vertical) and, (only) if you use Kaoriya's gVim build, set charspace=... (horizontal). This may indirectly improve font appearance.