I follow https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/81278/how-to-have-a-solid-fill-column-indicator-when-line-spacing-is-greater-than-zero to set stipples as fill-column-indicator The result is [image: grafik.png] I get this result on Windows using Emacs HEAD as well as on Linux using Emacs 30.1 pgtk-build (Arch repo) While the screenshot has display-line-numbers-mode enabled, it is not necessary to expose the IMHO bug. To reproduce: emacs -q --load fc.el fc.el fc.el attached. To my understanding according to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Face-Attributes.html : > Alternatively, the value can specify the bitmap directly, with a list of the form (width height data). Here, width and height specify the size in pixels, and data is a string containing the raw bits of the bitmap, row by row. so :stipple '(7 1 " ") has a bit mask of "0010 0000" and to my understanding should result in a single black horizontal line. Alas it produces two, which I consider a bug. This, however, is not consistent. On Linux, when I add more lines to the file so that display-line-numbers-mode would result in a shift of the 'viewport', sometimes only one line is displayed, as expected. On Windows the behaviour remains consistent is so far as always two lines are display