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Inconsistencies between shaded box-drawing chars U+1fB8e, U+1fb8f, U+1fb91, U+1fb92, and U+2592ย #3010

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Inconsistencies between shaded box-drawing chars U+1fB8e, U+1fb8f, U+1fb91, U+1fb92, and U+2592#3010
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opened on Dec 24, 2025

I was trying to add a drop shadow to a blocky font, like so:

โ–€โ–ˆโ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ‘โ–ˆโ–„โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ–€โ–ˆโ–ˆ๐Ÿฎโ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ–€โ–ˆโ–ˆ๐Ÿฎโ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡
โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆ๐Ÿฎโ–€โ–ˆโ–„โ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ‘โ–ˆโ–„โ€‡โ€‡โ–„โ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–ˆโ–„โ€‡โ–€โ–ˆโ–„โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘โ–ˆโ–„โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ–„โ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎโ€‡โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ’โ–€โ–ˆโ–„โ€‡โ€‡โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–ˆโ–„โ€‡โ€‡โ–„โ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ€‡โ€‡โ–„โ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–ˆโ–„โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆ๐Ÿฎโ–„โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ
โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ–„โ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ‘โ–’โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’๐ŸฎŽโ€‡๐ŸฎŽ๐ŸฎŽโ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ’โ–„โ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ‘โ–’โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–ˆโ–„โ€‡โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’๐ŸฎŽโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ–„โ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ€‡โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ€‡โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’โ–ˆโ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ’โ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ’โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–’
โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–’๐ŸฎŽโ€‡โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎโ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–’๐ŸฎŽโ–„โ–ˆโ–ˆ๐Ÿฎ’๐ŸฎŽ๐ŸฎŽ๐ŸฎŽโ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ€‡โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–’๐ŸฎŽโ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–’โ€‡โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘โ–’โ€‡โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎโ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎโ€‡โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎโ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎโ€‡โ€‡โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘๐Ÿฎ‘โ–’๐ŸฎŽโ€‡โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘โ–’โ–€๐Ÿฎ‘โ–’๐ŸฎŽ

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2580.pdf

They're all called "medium shade", some of them are "inverse medium shade", but I thought that would still mean they'd all be a 50% fill; but here's what I get in Windows Terminal:

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Also, the edges aren't straight? Like, the middle top of the D and the o are a little higher -- those are drawn with "1FB91 ๐Ÿฎ‘ UPPER HALF BLOCK AND LOWER HALF INVERSE MEDIUM SHADE"

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