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## The graph points look broken/strange
It's possible that your graphs won't look great out of the box due to the reliance on braille fonts.
One example of this is seeing a bunch of missing font characters, caused when the terminal isn't configured properly to render braille fonts.
It's possible that your graphs won't look great out of the box due to the reliance on braille fonts to draw them. One
example of this is seeing a bunch of missing font characters, caused when the terminal isn't configured properly to
render braille fonts.
<figure>
<img src="../assets/screenshots/troubleshooting/no_braille.webp" alt="Example of a terminal with no braille font."/>
<figcaption>Powershell shown missing braille fonts</figcaption>
</figure>
Another example is when braille is rendered as a block of dots, with the non-coloured dots also appearing. This may look strange for some users, and it is also caused by misconfiguration or missing fonts.
<figure>
<img src="../assets/screenshots/troubleshooting/weird_braille.webp" alt="Example of a terminal with the wrong braille font."/>
<figcaption>Braille fonts rendering as a block of dots</figcaption>
</figure>
One alternative is to use the `--dot_marker` option to render graph charts using dots instead of the braille characters, which generally seems better supported out of the box,
at the expense of looking less intricate:
One alternative is to use the `--dot_marker` option to render graph charts using dots instead of the braille characters,
which generally seems better supported out of the box, at the expense of looking less intricate:
<figure>
<img src="../assets/screenshots/troubleshooting/dots.webp" alt="Example of running bottom with the dot marker flag"/>