Why do checkboxes look so wierd and inconsistent? How to make it look like in the symbols reference?

[Antennen]

Hey. When rendering the symbols for checkboxes/ballots they look weird, and do not correspond to those in the reference. Is this a bug or how to best resolve?

= Typst \#sym

- Square: #sym.square
- Ballot: #sym.ballot
- Crossed: #sym.ballot.cross
- Heavy: #sym.ballot.heavy
- Ballot check: #sym.ballot.check

= Unicode:

- Empty: ☐
- Checked: ☑
- Crossed: ☒

According to the symbols reference i would expect them to look like:

This could be a font issue? It is behaving unexpectedly without setting the font.

[bluss]

The symbols depend on the font, so you have full control over the final outcome here, but only if we try carefully. I suggest first turning off font fallback then it will only use the current font, and not try to find the symbol in other fonts.

#set text(fallback: false, font: "Libertinus Serif")
= Typst \#sym

- Square: #sym.square
- Ballot: #sym.ballot
- Crossed: #sym.ballot.cross
- Heavy: #sym.ballot.heavy
- Ballot check: #sym.ballot.check

= Unicode:

- Empty: ☐
- Checked: ☑
- Crossed: ☒

So now we have a new starting point for the question - it’s plain that the default font doesn’t give us any of these symbols, except the first one! Configure a font (or multiple fonts) that has symbols that look nice to you, and then it should be consistent.

I don’t think it’s a bug - symbol appearance always depends on the font used.