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A precise, native terminal for Windows

Every cell, exactly right.

Box lines, blocks and Powerline shapes meet without seams in any font. Every setting says what it does and applies the moment you change it.

Request accessPrivate alpha · 0.1.0-dev · free
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Precision, in what it draws

Box drawing meets without seams in any font

Zinc draws box lines, blocks and Powerline shapes itself, cell by cell, instead of trusting the font to line up. Raise the line height and they still join.

Drawn from the font. With 20% more line height, each glyph stops short of its cell and the rows come apart.
Drawn by Zinc. Every line reaches the edge of its cell, so it meets its neighbour exactly, and quadrants like ▚ share exactly one corner. font.builtin-glyphs

Precision, in how you tune it

Every setting says what it does

Plain words for each one, a live preview as you go, applied the moment you change it, one click from undo.

  • Explained in plain wordsThe config key sits underneath, for when you'd rather edit the file.
  • Saved to config.toml and appliedNo Save button. Undo puts the file back as it was when Settings opened.
  • Inheritance you can seeA profile shows where a value comes from until it has its own.
  • A way back on every changeThe reset arrow appears only when a setting differs, and says where it goes back to.

Hundreds of settings, each one explained like these.

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