diff --git a/src/font/SharedGrid.zig b/src/font/SharedGrid.zig
index 03f364570..a1b0f798b 100644
--- a/src/font/SharedGrid.zig
+++ b/src/font/SharedGrid.zig
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ fn reloadMetrics(self: *SharedGrid, thicken: bool) !void {
         .thickness = self.metrics.underline_thickness *
             @as(u32, if (thicken) 2 else 1),
         .underline_position = self.metrics.underline_position,
+        .strikethrough_position = self.metrics.strikethrough_position,
     };
 }
 
diff --git a/src/font/sprite.zig b/src/font/sprite.zig
index fd37bc852..5f679631d 100644
--- a/src/font/sprite.zig
+++ b/src/font/sprite.zig
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ pub const Sprite = enum(u32) {
     underline_dashed,
     underline_curly,
 
+    strikethrough,
+
     cursor_rect,
     cursor_hollow_rect,
     cursor_bar,
diff --git a/src/font/sprite/Face.zig b/src/font/sprite/Face.zig
index 86dd70c71..676598d97 100644
--- a/src/font/sprite/Face.zig
+++ b/src/font/sprite/Face.zig
@@ -30,11 +30,17 @@ height: u32,
 
 /// Base thickness value for lines of sprites. This is in pixels. If you
 /// want to do any DPI scaling, it is expected to be done earlier.
-thickness: u32,
+thickness: u32 = 1,
 
 /// The position of the underline.
 underline_position: u32 = 0,
 
+/// The position of the strikethrough.
+// NOTE(mitchellh): We don't use a dedicated strikethrough thickness
+// setting yet but fonts can in theory set this. If this becomes an
+// issue in practice we can add it here.
+strikethrough_position: u32 = 0,
+
 /// Returns true if the codepoint exists in our sprite font.
 pub fn hasCodepoint(self: Face, cp: u32, p: ?font.Presentation) bool {
     // We ignore presentation. No matter what presentation is requested
@@ -113,6 +119,16 @@ pub fn renderGlyph(
             self.thickness,
         ),
 
+        .strikethrough => try underline.renderGlyph(
+            alloc,
+            atlas,
+            @enumFromInt(cp),
+            width,
+            self.height,
+            self.strikethrough_position,
+            self.thickness,
+        ),
+
         .powerline => powerline: {
             const f: Powerline = .{
                 .width = width,
@@ -129,6 +145,7 @@ pub fn renderGlyph(
 const Kind = enum {
     box,
     underline,
+    strikethrough,
     powerline,
 
     pub fn init(cp: u32) ?Kind {
@@ -141,6 +158,9 @@ const Kind = enum {
                 .underline_curly,
                 => .underline,
 
+                .strikethrough,
+                => .strikethrough,
+
                 .cursor_rect,
                 .cursor_hollow_rect,
                 .cursor_bar,
@@ -189,3 +209,7 @@ const Kind = enum {
         };
     }
 };
+
+test {
+    @import("std").testing.refAllDecls(@This());
+}
diff --git a/src/font/sprite/underline.zig b/src/font/sprite/underline.zig
index 064efc74f..19e228def 100644
--- a/src/font/sprite/underline.zig
+++ b/src/font/sprite/underline.zig
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 //! to maintain and debug another set of shaders for each renderer instead of
 //! just relying on the glyph system we already need to support for text
 //! anyways.
+//!
+//! This also renders strikethrough, so its really more generally a
+//! "horizontal line" renderer.
 const std = @import("std");
 const builtin = @import("builtin");
 const assert = std.debug.assert;
@@ -71,6 +74,7 @@ const Draw = struct {
             .underline_dotted => self.drawDotted(canvas),
             .underline_dashed => self.drawDashed(canvas),
             .underline_curly => self.drawCurly(canvas),
+            .strikethrough => self.drawSingle(canvas),
             else => unreachable,
         }
     }
@@ -225,6 +229,24 @@ test "single" {
     );
 }
 
+test "strikethrough" {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    var atlas_greyscale = try font.Atlas.init(alloc, 512, .greyscale);
+    defer atlas_greyscale.deinit(alloc);
+
+    _ = try renderGlyph(
+        alloc,
+        &atlas_greyscale,
+        .strikethrough,
+        36,
+        18,
+        9,
+        2,
+    );
+}
+
 test "single large thickness" {
     const testing = std.testing;
     const alloc = testing.allocator;
diff --git a/src/renderer/Metal.zig b/src/renderer/Metal.zig
index f525f986a..1476b90c1 100644
--- a/src/renderer/Metal.zig
+++ b/src/renderer/Metal.zig
@@ -1914,13 +1914,36 @@ fn updateCell(
     }
 
     if (style.flags.strikethrough) {
+        const render = try self.font_grid.renderGlyph(
+            self.alloc,
+            font.sprite_index,
+            @intFromEnum(font.Sprite.strikethrough),
+            .{
+                .cell_width = if (cell.wide == .wide) 2 else 1,
+                .grid_metrics = self.grid_metrics,
+            },
+        );
+
+        const color = style.underlineColor(palette) orelse colors.fg;
+
         self.cells.appendAssumeCapacity(.{
-            .mode = .strikethrough,
+            .mode = .fg,
             .grid_pos = .{ @as(f32, @floatFromInt(x)), @as(f32, @floatFromInt(y)) },
             .cell_width = cell.gridWidth(),
-            .color = .{ colors.fg.r, colors.fg.g, colors.fg.b, alpha },
+            .color = .{ color.r, color.g, color.b, alpha },
             .bg_color = bg,
+            .glyph_pos = .{ render.glyph.atlas_x, render.glyph.atlas_y },
+            .glyph_size = .{ render.glyph.width, render.glyph.height },
+            .glyph_offset = .{ render.glyph.offset_x, render.glyph.offset_y },
         });
+
+        // self.cells.appendAssumeCapacity(.{
+        //     .mode = .strikethrough,
+        //     .grid_pos = .{ @as(f32, @floatFromInt(x)), @as(f32, @floatFromInt(y)) },
+        //     .cell_width = cell.gridWidth(),
+        //     .color = .{ colors.fg.r, colors.fg.g, colors.fg.b, alpha },
+        //     .bg_color = bg,
+        // });
     }
 
     return true;