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@ -165,9 +165,12 @@ kitty is not able to use my favorite font?
|kitty| achieves its stellar performance by caching alpha masks of each rendered
character on the GPU, so that every character needs to be rendered only once.
This means it is a strictly character cell based display. As such it can use
only monospace fonts, since every cell in the grid has to be the same size. If
your font is not listed in ``kitty list-fonts`` it means that it is not
monospace. On Linux you can list all monospace fonts with::
only monospace fonts, since every cell in the grid has to be the same size.
Furthermore, it needs fonts to be freely resizable, so it does not support
bitmapped fonts.
If your font is not listed in ``kitty list-fonts`` it means that it is not
monospace or is a bitmapped font. On Linux you can list all monospace fonts with::
fc-list : family spacing outline scalable | grep -e spacing=100 -e spacing=90 | grep -e outline=True | grep -e scalable=True