rebeccargb / slcgen Goto Github PK

Very nice generator!

In considering to use it for Nerd Fonts, I checked the output:

What I miss is the overlap. Depending on a lot of factors the user will get antialiasing-based errors (color fringes) when constructing boxes with theses. That can be prevented with adequate overlap, here for example how Hack does it:

I guess that (the absence of the overlap) would not be a problem for Nerd Fonts, because we enforce the overlap anyhow on scaling into the destination font:

Do you have any comment for the overlap / antialiasing problem?

As this generator is MIT licensed I guess you would allow Nerd Fonts to use it to add all these glyphs?

*) Only LCD color antialiasing is affected of course, I always tell people to use greyscale antialiasing which has zero problems

Not sure why this fails. The values are the assent/decent/width from Hack.

$ fontforge slcgen.py -a 1556 -d 492 -w 1233                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          main … 1 
Copyright (c) 2000-2023. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read LICENSE.
 Version: 20230101
 Based on sources from 2023-08-03 13:35 UTC-ML-D-GDK3.
 Based on source from git with hash: 4f4907d9541857b135bd0b361099e778325b4e28
NaN value in spline creation%
$

A font is created, though... 🤔