diff --git a/Sources/STTextViewAppKit/STTextLayoutFragment.swift b/Sources/STTextViewAppKit/STTextLayoutFragment.swift
index 484fcb0..3ed0af2 100644
--- a/Sources/STTextViewAppKit/STTextLayoutFragment.swift
+++ b/Sources/STTextViewAppKit/STTextLayoutFragment.swift
@@ -7,46 +7,46 @@ import STObjCLandShim
 final class STTextLayoutFragment: NSTextLayoutFragment {
     private let paragraphStyle: NSParagraphStyle
     var showsInvisibleCharacters: Bool = false
-
+    
     init(textElement: NSTextElement, range rangeInElement: NSTextRange?, paragraphStyle: NSParagraphStyle) {
         self.paragraphStyle = paragraphStyle
         super.init(textElement: textElement, range: rangeInElement)
     }
-
+    
     required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
         self.paragraphStyle = NSParagraphStyle.default
         self.showsInvisibleCharacters = false
         super.init(coder: coder)
     }
-
+    
     // Provide default line height based on the typingattributed. By default return (0, 0, 10, 14)
     //
     // override var layoutFragmentFrame: CGRect {
     //    super.layoutFragmentFrame
     // }
-
+    
     override func draw(at point: CGPoint, in context: CGContext) {
         // Layout fragment draw text at the bottom (after apply baselineOffset) but ignore the paragraph line height
         // This is a workaround/patch to position text nicely in the line
         //
         // Center vertically after applying lineHeightMultiple value
         // super.draw(at: point.moved(dx: 0, dy: offset), in: context)
-
+        
         context.saveGState()
-
+        
 #if USE_FONT_SMOOTHING_STYLE
         // This seems to be available at least on 10.8 and later. The only reference to it is in
         // WebKit. This causes text to render just a little lighter, which looks nicer.
         let useThinStrokes = true // shouldSmooth
         var savedFontSmoothingStyle: Int32 = 0
-
+        
         if useThinStrokes {
             context.setShouldSmoothFonts(true)
             savedFontSmoothingStyle = STContextGetFontSmoothingStyle(context)
             STContextSetFontSmoothingStyle(context, 16)
         }
 #endif
-
+        
         for lineFragment in textLineFragments {
             // Determine paragraph style. Either from the fragment string or default for the text view
             // the ExtraLineFragment doesn't have information about typing attributes hence layout manager uses a default values - not from text view
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ final class STTextLayoutFragment: NSTextLayoutFragment {
             } else {
                 paragraphStyle = self.paragraphStyle
             }
-
+            
             if !paragraphStyle.lineHeightMultiple.isAlmostZero() {
                 let offset = -(lineFragment.typographicBounds.height * (paragraphStyle.lineHeightMultiple - 1.0) / 2)
                 lineFragment.draw(at: point.moved(dx: lineFragment.typographicBounds.origin.x, dy: lineFragment.typographicBounds.origin.y + offset), in: context)
@@ -66,28 +66,29 @@ final class STTextLayoutFragment: NSTextLayoutFragment {
                 lineFragment.draw(at: lineFragment.typographicBounds.origin, in: context)
             }
         }
-
+        
 #if USE_FONT_SMOOTHING_STYLE
         if (useThinStrokes) {
             STContextSetFontSmoothingStyle(context, savedFontSmoothingStyle);
         }
 #endif
-
+        
         if showsInvisibleCharacters {
             drawInvisibles(at: point, in: context)
         }
         
         context.restoreGState()
     }
-
+    
     private func drawInvisibles(at point: CGPoint, in context: CGContext) {
         guard let textLayoutManager = textLayoutManager else {
             return
         }
-
+        
         context.saveGState()
-
+        
         for lineFragment in textLineFragments where !lineFragment.isExtraLineFragment {
+            
             let string = lineFragment.attributedString.string
             if let textLineTextRange = lineFragment.textRange(in: self) {
                 for (offset, character) in string.utf16.enumerated() where Unicode.Scalar(character)?.properties.isWhitespace == true {
@@ -96,21 +97,44 @@ final class STTextLayoutFragment: NSTextLayoutFragment {
                     guard let segmentLocation = textLayoutManager.location(textLineTextRange.location, offsetBy: offset),
                           let segmentEndLocation = textLayoutManager.location(textLineTextRange.location, offsetBy: offset + (writingDirection == .leftToRight ? 1 : 0)),
                           let segmentRange = NSTextRange(location: segmentLocation, end: segmentEndLocation),
-                          let segmentFrame = textLayoutManager.textSegmentFrame(in: segmentRange, type: .standard)
+                          let segmentFrame = textLayoutManager.textSegmentFrame(in: segmentRange, type: .standard),
+                          let font = lineFragment.attributedString.attribute(.font, at: offset, effectiveRange: nil) as? NSFont
                     else {
                         // assertionFailure()
                         continue
                     }
-
-                    let frameRect = CGRect(origin: CGPoint(x: segmentFrame.origin.x - layoutFragmentFrame.origin.x, y: segmentFrame.origin.y - layoutFragmentFrame.origin.y), size: CGSize(width: segmentFrame.size.width, height: segmentFrame.size.height))
-                    context.setFillColor(NSColor.placeholderTextColor.cgColor)
-                    let rect = CGRect(x: frameRect.midX, y: frameRect.midY, width: frameRect.width / 4, height: frameRect.width / 4)
-                    context.addEllipse(in: rect)
-                    context.drawPath(using: .fill)
+                    
+					let symbol: Character = switch character {
+					case 0x0020: "\u{00B7}"  // • Space
+					case 0x0009: "\u{00BB}"  // » Tab
+					case 0x000A: "\u{00AC}"  // ¬ Line Feed
+					case 0x000D: "\u{21A9}"  // ↩ Carriage Return
+					case 0x00A0: "\u{235F}"  // ⎵ Non-Breaking Space
+					case 0x200B: "\u{205F}"  // ⸱ Zero Width Space
+					case 0x200C: "\u{200C}"  // ‌ Zero Width Non-Joiner
+					case 0x200D: "\u{200D}"  // ‍ Zero Width Joiner
+					case 0x2060: "\u{205F}"  //   Word Joiner
+					case 0x2028: "\u{23CE}"  // ⏎ Line Separator
+					case 0x2029: "\u{00B6}"  // ¶ Paragraph Separator
+					default: "\u{00B7}"  // • Default symbol for unspecified whitespace
+					}
+                    
+                    let symbolString = String(symbol)
+                    let attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key: Any] = [
+                        .font: font,
+                        .foregroundColor: NSColor.placeholderTextColor
+                    ]
+					
+					let frameRect = CGRect(origin: CGPoint(x: segmentFrame.origin.x - layoutFragmentFrame.origin.x, y: segmentFrame.origin.y - layoutFragmentFrame.origin.y), size: CGSize(width: segmentFrame.size.width, height: segmentFrame.size.height)).pixelAligned
+					
+                    let charSize = symbolString.size(withAttributes: attributes)
+					let point = CGPoint(x: frameRect.origin.x, y: frameRect.height / 2 - charSize.height / 2)
+                    
+                    symbolString.draw(at: point, withAttributes: attributes)
                 }
             }
         }
-
+        
         context.restoreGState()
     }
 }