diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 2e976e5f9..c5d954680 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,42 @@
+# Source code - always LF
+*.zig text eol=lf
+*.c text eol=lf
+*.h text eol=lf
+*.cpp text eol=lf
+*.m text eol=lf
+*.swift text eol=lf
+*.py text eol=lf
+*.sh text eol=lf
+
+# Config/build files - always LF
+*.zon text eol=lf
+*.nix text eol=lf
+*.md text eol=lf
+*.json text eol=lf
+*.yml text eol=lf
+*.yaml text eol=lf
+*.toml text eol=lf
+CMakeLists.txt text eol=lf
+*.cmake text eol=lf
+Makefile text eol=lf
+
+# Text data files - always LF (embedded in Zig, parsed with \n split)
+*.txt text eol=lf
+
+# Windows resource files - preserve as-is (native Windows tooling)
+*.rc -text
+*.manifest -text
+
+# Binary files
+*.png binary
+*.ico binary
+*.icns binary
+*.ttf binary
+*.otf binary
+*.glsl binary
+*.blp binary
+
+# Linguist overrides
 build.zig.zon.nix linguist-generated=true
 build.zig.zon.txt linguist-generated=true
 build.zig.zon.json linguist-generated=true
@@ -12,4 +51,3 @@ src/font/nerd_font_attributes.zig linguist-generated=true
 src/font/nerd_font_codepoint_tables.py linguist-generated=true
 src/font/res/** linguist-vendored
 src/terminal/res/** linguist-vendored
-src/terminal/res/rgb.txt -text