CaskaydiaCove Regular: center wide icons within their cell?

[Atcold]

Summary

In CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font, wide icons (e.g. the globe 󰖟, nf-md-web U+F059F) are drawn from the left edge of their cell, so depending on what follows they either clash or look left-aligned — never centered. This is the "Wide variant" idea from #1330, asked specifically for CaskaydiaCove.

The setup

A wide icon occupies 1 logical cell (wcwidth = 1) but its drawn advance is ~1.5 cells, painted from the left edge, so it bleeds ~0.5 cell to the right. Hence:

• Followed by a character → the bleed overlaps it → the two clash ([󰖟] mashes the ]).
• Followed by a space → the bleed lands on the blank cell → no clash, but the glyph is left-aligned in the glyph + space 2-cell block, with all the gap on the right.

Adding a trailing space (the usual convention) is what turns "clash" into merely "left-aligned" — but it's still never centered.

Variants today

• Mono — icon scaled to fit one cell: aligned, but too small to read comfortably.
• Regular — icon at a readable size, but ~1.5 cells drawn from the left edge: clashes if followed by a character, left-aligned if followed by a space.

So there's no variant that is both readable and centered.

Question

Is there already a way to get these wide icons centered in the terminal — an existing variant, build flag, or setting — that I've missed?

Request

If not, could CaskaydiaCove offer a build (or option) that bakes a small left side-bearing into wide icons so they're centered within a 2-cell footprint (≈0.25-cell shift, glyph at [0.25 → 1.75]), while keeping wcwidth = 1 and the trailing-space convention working? Application-side this can't be fixed — a terminal only places glyphs on whole-cell boundaries, so no "half space" character can shift the glyph; the offset has to live in the font metrics.

Thanks for the fonts!

[Finii]

Thanks for the correct analysis.

There is one more variant today, the 'proportional' Nerd Font Propo, which does not work with the concept of a cell.
An explanation of the concepts of all three variants can be found in

• What does --variable-width-glyphs do now? #1103

But anyhow, this is not what you need.

Is there already a way to get these wide icons centered in the terminal

Currently no. As you found out, there is

• 🙏🏻 Is it possible to "center" glyphs which overlap a single cell by padding them? #1330

but this is not a 'standard feature'. But you (all) are right, this is kind of a gap in the variant offerings.

I will try to make it a merged feature for the next release that is overdue by 1/2 year already 😒

Edit: Typo

[Atcold]

Thank you! This would greatly improve the aesthetics for terminal based apps!