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Some letters should be polished:

• "C" and "G" are currently less wide than "O"
• "a" needs refinement
• "w" needs refinement

Additionally: Check rounded edges for inconsistencies.

For my fish prompt:

• ✭
• ═

Also look into check marks and crosses of dingbats ( https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/dingbats/ )

Should some of those symbols be implemented as double width glyphs?

How are double width glyphs supposed to be implemented, such that the font stays monospaced?

• ≢ should have equal spacing for upper and lower bars
• ≡ top and bottom bar right in the middle of pixel border
• Both glyphs should have their bars at the same height.

Really nice code font @datMaffin ! Any chance to add ligatures to it? I'd try myself but need some directions

For Regular and Italic use PS Private -> StemSnapH with 77
For Regular and Italic use PS Private -> StemSnapV with 85

Check if all letters have the corresponding width and height.

Changing the height of bold should be resolved before.

To check if width and height in round shapes is correct; use two circles with a diagonal of the height and width stored in the guide layer.

Instead of only using FontForge References and unlinking during the build:

• Use Anchors and GPOS table as explained here: http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Diacritics_and_Accents.html
• Use automatic unlink on generation when overlapping.

Introduce table of content

The readme is going to contain the following:

• Page stating general goals and rational
• What changes were made to Mononoki
• How specific Issues with the Font or FontForge were fixed

The following math glyphs are missing, but are seemingly prominently used by Julia-lang

• ⊻ Xor U+22BB
• ⊋ Superset of with Not Equal To U+228B
• ⊊ Subset of with Not Equal To U+228A
• ⊉ Neither a Superset of nor Equal To U+2289
• ⊈ Neither a Subset of nor Equal To U+2288
• ⊇ Superset of or Equal To U+2287
• ⊆ Subset of or Equal To U+2286
• ≉ Not Almost Equal To U+2249
• ∩ Intersection cap, hat U+2229
• ∛ Cube Root U+221B
• ℯ Script Small E error, natural exponent U+212F

Greetings, it is good to see that this project has the possibility of moving forward,
I only have one query in relation to the original source this is higher is this always going to be like this?

Original:

Fork:

That is, it has more space between lines
Thank you

• + asymmetric
• <> not alligned with -

The stroke of the bold italic 'b' and 'p' look for some reason to be too thin (compare with 'd'):

To prevent the repo from blowing up even more in size.

It seems like in general if a dotted circle is used in the font forge glyph example for a character: it is a mark.
Instead of positioning combining accents in the negative space; set OT-class to Mark. (Compare to Consola.ttf). (Needs testing if this will work...)

All other glyphs shall be set to Base Glyph

On second thought:
Define only glyphs that are definitely Base Glyphs as Base Glyphs and leave all other glyphs on auto.

Cheers,
some letters do not draw well in kitty as you can see in the following image :

Thank's

See: https://www.fonttutorials.com/how-to-name-font-family/ for a tutorial of what should be named what.

Check that Regular compared to Bold (and Italic compared to Bold-Italic) use the same number of points and start point.

The width and height of the strokes should be similar to the numbers

• +
• -
• =
• (
• )
• Might also adapt the sub/superscript letters.

Alternative:

• get the numbers and fractions from upstream Mononoki now that they look good in all the styles. (Changes did not yet reach the main branch)

In Bold and Bold-Italic:

• Capital Height from 720 to 700
• x Height from 520 to 500

Use in Bold and Bold-Italic the PS Private -> Blue Values from the Regular and Italic font respectively.

Check if Bold letters are correctly positioned (horizontally) compared to Regular.

Change in Bold font PS Private -> StemSnapH to 97
Keep in Bold font PS Private -> StemSnapV to 105

Add chosen Sizes to Contribution.md

This is from: madmalik#79

The glyph for U+0110 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE is wrong: it should look identical to the glyph for U+00D0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH.

See: madmalik#23 (comment)

It seems like browsers render otf differently than woff fonts. (Firefox and Chromium)

The otf seems to not have hinting enabled and looks darker. Woff might also be more optimized in terms of size.

• Check what would be required to export woff using fontforge. This should be fairly easy to do.
• Check if I should use the ttfautohint on the woff

When looking at the stack trace, it freezes while the cairo/pango library does some work.

• Reexport this font with a recent version of FontForge, and check whether it fixes the issue

If it does not work:

• Try to reproduce this on a regular Linux Distro
• Check whether there are any related issues found on any issue trackers
• Figure out what exactly in the Font is making it freeze

Change the descender line such that the letters fit within.
While the current really small height might have the advantage of getting a lot of information on the screen, it is, in my opinion, not that comfortable to read anyway.

One will also need to adapt the box-drawing characters after this change.

As this would be a "breaking" change, bump up the major version number.

Figure out what values need to be changed.

See also:

• http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Line_Spacing.html
• https://fontforge.org/docs/ui/dialogs/fontinfo.html

glyphs are:

• ⌫ U+232B
• ⏎ U+23CE
• ↹ U+21B9
• ⇬ U+21EC
• ⇧ U+21E7
• ⇮ U+21EE

I probably need to export the font in a format suitable for websites

Although Mononoki does not have ligatures, adding support for them here would be a great addition (especially for programmers in functional paradigms like Haskell or Elixir etc).

Add characters of the Unicode geometric shapes group (https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/geometric-shapes/)

Especially important would be:
▽ White Down-Pointing Triangle
hamilton operator
U+25BD

as it is used within htop.

• make it more bold (currently it is at 20. Try 30 - 40.)
• make sure the following glyphs look good:
  • regular: a, e, g
  • italic: e
  • Chalkboard bold letters (and other math symbols)
• Check how different fonts have implemented their bold
  • Source Code Pro (mentions that it took a bunch of time)
  • Ubuntu Mono (just like the font)
  • Julia Mono
• Check what to do with Box-Drawing (probably make sure that they are not embolden) and other special characters

Great work.

By using the Ligaturizer script to add ligatures to Manafoki, the Bold-Italic variant is recognized attached images about it:

Thanks

SFDNormalize is deleting the copyright notice that would be embedded in the font. I would like to restore this copyright notice to how it was at the 2.0 release.

Look into adding this notice during build time.