SVG icons are blurry after update to 5.3

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• Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
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Problem Description

This is how my spyder looked before updating to 5.3

Here is a generated image

This is what the text looks like, you can see each line is perfect no overlap.

This is what I get now after updating to 5.3. Same setting but icons and taskbars are huge, text is use, the icons are blurry

Here is the same image generated, but not its really blurry

I can toggle/lower the text size but this does noting for the huge panels and blurriness.

You also note, when I highlight a line of text, as in line 6, the number overlaps. I’m not sure how to fix this issue

Things I’ve done to help

1. So far I reverted to conda install --revision=9 this doesn’t help
2. Restarted my device
3. I’ve noted in another environment which I have not updated spyder (the one i used to generate the images above) everything looks fine.

Versions

<! * Spyder version: 5.3.3 (conda)

• Python version: 3.9.13 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.4
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.7
• Operating System: Linux 5.4.0-124-generic

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[ccordoba12]

Thanks for letting us know about that @julie-jch. There’s little we can do about it though because this is a very specific use case and we have a lot of other things to address.

[ccordoba12]

Sorry, I missed these comments of yours:

This is what the text looks like, you can see each line is perfect no overlap. You also note, when I highlight a line of text, as in line 6, the number overlaps. I’m not sure how to fix this issue

I can reproduce this error with the elusiveicons font you’re using:

@impact27, could you take a look at it? I thought it was fixed, but it seems it’s still an issue for some fonts.

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@julie-jch, the solution for now is to use a different font (e.g. Ubunto Mono).