max / alloy

skel: single-cell icons in cell grids, and no emoji font Nerd Font icons live in the Private Use Area, which a terminal measures as one cell while the plain family draws them at roughly two, so the glyph paints over whatever follows it. The monospace alias moves to the Mono family, which constrains them to the cell the terminal allocated. In practice the overflow is usually hidden because yazi and starship pad icons with a trailing space, but that depends on every TUI author choosing to pad, and the failure is silent when one does not. The cost is real: the icons are smaller and fainter. Pango consumers are not a cell grid and keep the plain family. The emoji alias named Noto Color Emoji, which the image has never installed, so it resolved to whatever fontconfig picked next and emoji rendered as missing glyphs anyway. Alloy ships no emoji font and uses none in its own copy. Declining to ship one is a position; naming an absent one is a defect, so the alias is gone rather than repointed.