Image is too blurry? about imgcat HOT 1 CLOSED

This is a feature, not a bug. 🙃

imgcat, in its original form is supposed to print chunky, poor-resolution images with low colour depth to your terminal, for ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ reasons.

A few terminal emulators, like iTerm2, support direct display of images. So one solution to this is to install iTerm2, and use imgcat. imgcat should automatically detect it's running in iTerm2 and print the image to screen in its full resolution glory. You can still print chunky images with command line options, though!

An alternative to this is using the -H or --half-height option, which cleverly uses Unicode half-height block characters to double the vertical resolution of your screen. This might make images a little clearer, but it does not work well for diagrams, or images with text.

Consider displaying an XKCD comic.

With macOS Terminal, normally:

With macOS Terminal, using the --half-height option:

With iTerm2, using its direct image output:

Note: if you switch to iTerm2, it also bundles a script called imgcat. Follow the notes in the brew info imgcat in order to install this version of imgcat correctly.

I'm marking this as wontfix, but if you have any questions, feel free to reply! 😄

from imgcat.