why does the same font look bad on gentoo but not on arch

[stiff barn]

Its probably named differently on gentoo for some reason

and then defaults to some different font

i think you can run fontconfig or something to see what the name it should be under

if you run fc-list it should show the actual name of what the font is called on Gentoo install

it's not installed?

do you have the jet brains mono use flag enabled for the package?

[stiff barn]

thats the package keyword, not the useflag

you would add something like media-fonts/nerdfonts jetbrainsmono to your package.use

which is located in /etc/portage

you can either make package.use a file or a directory with a file inside of it

for example you could do smth like /etc/portage/package.use/fonts and all the packages with their respective useflags would reside in that file

[stiff barn]

no

its like this format

but instead of ~amd64, you just replace it with the useflag(s) you want

this is for portage to know what useflags there are

not for you to set

remove the ~

and you should be good

just reemerge the package

so it installs the font

you could, but its not required

just running emerge -1 nerdfonts should be sufficient

the -1 isn't even required

as all it does is prevent portage from adding a package to the world file (which basically stores every package you explicitly installed)

I just assume nerdfonts is already in there

is this the correct font?

oh ok

i don't use jetbrains mono lol

so i didn't know what you were exactly trying to show

[uneven magnet]

usually when the font looks like this, it means it's not set correctly, so it defaults to whatever font that is (most of the time, you see it in vscode when changing fonts)