Strange font effects

[robertsck]

I'm noticing some strange font effects with several different base themes. I've tested with spacemacs-dark, zenburn, and solarized-dark. All are showing the same effects. Not sure if it's due to personal settings or a general theme conflict. Would appreciate any insights you might have. Describe-font shows I'm using Source-Code-Pro-Normal.

On initial load, the theme looks great. However, as I move the cursor around, small defects appear.

This screen shot shows a Title before moving the cursor into it:

This is after moving the cursor into the line and back out again:

This shows a black bar across the cursor which shows on Level 1 headlines:

This shows a similar distortion caused by the cursor on a level 2 headline.

[jonnay]

Hmm. The black bar across the cursor is easy to explain. It's an artifact of how the leading is being hacked. Basically a box is added to the text in the same color as the background color. I should probably mention that in the description.

I am not sure what is happening with the cursor movement artifacts. Let me see if I can repro.

[stewartpark]

+1 I'm having the same problem

[fkgruber]

I like the theme a lot however I see the artifacts too on the leuven theme. I also find that the cursor disappears when it is at the beginning of the line on a heading.

here is after moving the cursor one space:

I'm seeing this (in light themes)... I don't think this is the desired effect...?

Actually its worse after fully reloading the theme....

[jonnay]

@usharf the load order of the theme matters. If you load org-beautify first, and then load another theme on top, org-beautify doesn't properly find the background color to hack in the spacing. That's why you have the goofy black boxes everywhere.

[jonnay]

If you pull down the latest version (0.4) and customize the variable org-beautify-theme-use-box-hack and set it to false, that should fix your woes.

Great thanks. If it helps anyone else using spacemacs, I'm using this snippet to force org-beautify-theme to re-apply after loading/changing active theme:

  (add-hook 'spacemacs-post-theme-change-hook
            'org-beautify-theme)

ooops... sorry, but I'm now seeing some artifacts in the theming of the mode-line.... i.e. those white blocks in the 2nd screen grab. Spacemacs uses powerline and the default seperator is 'wave ...