[Bug]: Font rendering appears blurry / low-contrast compared to native terminals (Kitty)

[jav-ed]

Current Behavior

Environment: OS: Manjaro Linux Wave version: 0.12.1 Shell: zsh (oh-my-zsh) Font: JetBrains Mono Comparison: Kitty terminal (same font, same shell, same theme)

Description: When using Wave with the same font, colors, and shell configuration as in Kitty, the text inside Wave appears noticeably softer, blurrier, and lower contrast. This becomes especially visible with dimmed ANSI colors (for example, file names or gray text in ls output). In Kitty, those colors remain crisp and easy to read — in Wave, they appear faded and less legible.

Screenshot comparison Left: Wave — Right: Kitty

Expected Behavior

Same colors as in kitty

Steps To Reproduce

1. Use oh-my-zsh
2. have a theme selected, like: af-magic
3. now perform some navigation

Wave Version

0.12.1

Platform

Linux

OS Version/Distribution

Manjaro

Architecture

x64

Anything else?

No response

Questionnaire

• [ ] I'm interested in fixing this myself but don't know where to start
• [ ] I would like to fix and I have a solution
• [ ] I don't have time to fix this right now, but maybe later

[Mostafa-Khairy0]

@jav-ed I’d like to work on this issue if that’s okay. Could you please assign it to me?

[jav-ed]

@Mostafa-Khairy0 Thank you very much for your interest in inshallah resolving this issue. I’m not the maintainer of this repo and don’t have permissions to assign issues (at least not that I’m aware of). If there are no special contribution rules in place, please feel free to go ahead, work on it, and open a pull request.