When you edit org files, sometimes you want to emphasize words like code or verbatim.

By default, Doom Emacs shows the leading or trailing marker characters like = or ~. So the org file looks funny.

Naturally, you want to hide the these characters, like an org-link.

This SO answer provides a solution: Toggle on org-hide-emphasis-markers

Before:

After:

To further customize each emphasis face, you can tweak the org-emphasis-alist variable and pick or customize each face, like org-verbatim. Here is an example.