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https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools/blob/master/encodings/latin_unique-glyphs.nam

Still have some more to add after #5 + #17, goal is to be fully google fonts compliant

Just the "half" corners, so that they're aligned when vertically stacked.
Use tree cmd to see this

Fontforge should automate well

Add ttf's to the build process, in forge script, just Generate(*.ttf) alongside Generate(*.otf)

This is a pretty big lift, but basically the vertical metrics are a little off (rookie mistake). They're correct in a world without accented capital letters, but with them, certain renderers can clip, for example the top of the accent in Á. To fix this, all letters will need to be scaled down relative to the viewport in Inkscape. The vertical metrics will also need some adjusting based on where the x-height / cap-height ends up and whatnot. May need to narrow up the width proportionally too to keep the letters spaced the same.

This won't just be for the sake of accented capital letters too, terminal highlighting should come out looking better after this change too. As seen in this vim-airline screenshot, the highlighting seems too low relative to the letters:

And my terminal block cursor looks wrong in the same way:

Have to check, but pretty sure the descent is a bit on the large side (200) because there just was extra space there, so might be able to translate the whole viewport upward, but it likely won't be enough so probably have to still do some scaling down of everything.

Follow google font guidelines and maybe eventually submit via PR

Specifically for what happens within inkscape, screenshots would be nice

• Add extra files (contributing guidelines...)
• Make sure license is reflected correctly in font binaries

google's recommendations

400 -> 200, same as bold, but remove internal contour instead of external

To be production ready, all paths should be programmatically cleaned by fontforge

This should help with #9

See description here

Initially set in Inkscape, and overwritten as needed in bin/forge.pe, make sure all values are up to google's recommendations.

Requested by jamesoglover on (fontspace)[http://www.fontspace.com/peter-fonseca/brass-mono]

Plan:

• cp regular.svg bold.svg
• up the line-width, copy through the levels and re-snapshot the glyphs
• change weight from 400 to 700
• pass into forge script (make sure to check hard-coded transformations)

Now that fontforge script will center everything horizontally, just need to capture each glyph in the right vertical alignment. Should recapture each glyph in the new environment

Should change inkscape document properties and em squares to match final output, so forging doesn't need to scale and reposition vertically

Brass Mono is wonderful to code in.
I use languages daily that use operators/fat arrows that use them(=>, >=, etc.).

Any plans in the future to add ligatures to Brass Mono?
Would love to eventually see it with ligatures - that being said I know its a 50/50 split on font creators liking them in the first place.

Thank you!

I absolutely love this font, thanks for making it!
I just wanted to let you know that the ligatures overlap sometimes with the text. Please look at the screenshots below-

Use docker + travis ci to ensure bin/build always works

Currently using major.minor.patch

Will have to switch to major.minor font-style

Install Font Bakery

• run it in a new bin/lint step in ci once it's passing

Instead of travisci which is no longer free