diff --git a/lib/renderer.ts b/lib/renderer.ts
index 3b51bfdd..e6cbe8f3 100644
--- a/lib/renderer.ts
+++ b/lib/renderer.ts
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ export interface RendererOptions {
 }
 
 export interface FontMetrics {
-  width: number; // Character cell width in CSS pixels
-  height: number; // Character cell height in CSS pixels
-  baseline: number; // Distance from top to text baseline
+  width: number; // Character cell width in CSS pixels (multiple of 1/devicePixelRatio)
+  height: number; // Character cell height in CSS pixels (multiple of 1/devicePixelRatio)
+  baseline: number; // Distance from top to text baseline in CSS pixels
 }
 
 // ============================================================================
@@ -197,16 +197,27 @@ export class CanvasRenderer {
 
     // Measure width using 'M' (typically widest character)
     const widthMetrics = ctx.measureText('M');
-    const width = Math.ceil(widthMetrics.width);
 
     // Measure height using ascent + descent with padding for glyph overflow
     const ascent = widthMetrics.actualBoundingBoxAscent || this.fontSize * 0.8;
     const descent = widthMetrics.actualBoundingBoxDescent || this.fontSize * 0.2;
 
-    // Add 2px padding to height to account for glyphs that overflow (like 'f', 'd', 'g', 'p')
-    // and anti-aliasing pixels
-    const height = Math.ceil(ascent + descent) + 2;
-    const baseline = Math.ceil(ascent) + 1; // Offset baseline by half the padding
+    // Round up to the nearest device pixel (not CSS pixel) so that cell
+    // boundaries fall on exact physical pixel boundaries at any
+    // devicePixelRatio. Without this, non-integer DPR values (e.g. 1.25,
+    // 1.5, 1.75 from browser zoom or HiDPI displays) produce fractional
+    // physical coordinates at cell edges, which causes the canvas
+    // rasterizer to antialias clearRect/fillRect at those edges. Combined
+    // with alpha:true on the canvas (used for transparency support since
+    // #93), those partially-transparent edge pixels composite against the
+    // page background and appear as thin black seams between rows/columns.
+    //
+    // The +2/+1 pixel paddings stay in CSS-pixel units before the DPR
+    // multiplication so the glyph-overflow margin scales correctly.
+    const dpr = this.devicePixelRatio;
+    const width = Math.ceil(widthMetrics.width * dpr) / dpr;
+    const height = Math.ceil((ascent + descent + 2) * dpr) / dpr;
+    const baseline = Math.ceil((ascent + 1) * dpr) / dpr;
 
     return { width, height, baseline };
   }