[why]
Improve legibility. The full icon is in fact a multicolor icon and the
design depends on being rendered in multiple different colors. That is
impossible for fonts. So we should probably use their flat (mono-color)
icon instead, which hints the different 'flaps' through gaps instead of
colors.
[note]
Both icons (the old and the new) contradict rules given by Firebase to
use the logo. But that can not be helped in a icon font, as we just have
one color of undetermined hue.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The Bazel icon might look nicer with gaps between the surfaces of the
cubes.
That is halfway in-line with the design idea of their logo.
See PR #1610 and link
https://blog.bazel.build/2017/07/05/new-logo-and-homepage.html
[how]
Based on the idea from Ezekiel Warren the Bazel icon gets gaps between
the surfaces of the cubes.
For this we use the skeleton svg icon of the Bazel website and construct
from scratch a new outline to represent the cube surfaces. The original
svg used lines with a width to create the image, which is not compatible
to fonts.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Some Caskaydia Cove glyphs that are used in ligatures (to create endless
arrows for example) show uneven line thickness on some platforms.
The reason is the not-matching hinting of glyphs that are places next
to each other and so minuscule differences are quite visible.
Note that the 'original' hinting is generated by VTT on the static
Cascadia Code instances, which upstream just have ttfautohint hints that
are different from the hints in the variable fonts and people complained
that the look is different.
[how]
Add a new field to the config.cfg file that holds regexes of glyph
names for glyphs that should be re-hinted by fontforge on patching time.
In principle we could also implement that as an additional pre-step that
needs to be manually done after running VTT on the static font files.
I'm not sure which is better.
Note that fontforge generates a lot of debug output because the hinting
is not ideal - the global tables are kept and probably less compatible
to fontforge's own hinting... But the results are good.
Fixes: #1291Fixes: #1609
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The config files are called `config.json` while the contents is
INI-like. The usual extension would be `.cfg`.
[how]
We use `.cfg` already for the shell variable configuration.
Combine both config file variants into one (real) cfg file, that is
directly read by the font-patcher and no shell variables files are used
anymore.
This needs some rewrite in gotta-patch-em to get the quoting right.
To make this simpler we remove the `--debug 1` option from the variable
and insert it directly (as it is applied always anyhow).
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The fi and fl ligs are formulated in the font to go through glyphs with
codepoint `F001` and `F002`. That is detected and overwriting that
glyphs with some (Font Awesome) icons is prevented.
The question is: What is more important, to have the fi ligature or to
have the fa-music and fa-magnifying_glass icons?
[how]
We sacrify here Font Nerdism over Icon Nerdism and remove the
ligatures before patching.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The glyphs can look a bit small(er) when used unscaled, for example in a
Nerd Font Propo font. Note that some icons indeed got smaller, but in
general the generated font is a bit smaller than before.
Related: #1588
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
We do not want to break the Fira progress icons, but on the other hand
these are so few icons that we can not keep the whole 0x0100 block
unoccupied.
So we just leave a small gap in the FontAwesome codepoints.
[how]
Be careful, the current code moves the icons 'to the back', which will
be different if we ever update FontAwesome. The code will break
(reassign a lot codepoints) then.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Previously we had icons with an open screen and a button, now it is
filled.
[how]
Swap the icons with the open icons at completely different codepoints.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
F1DB had an open circle, called circle-thin.
That must now come from the regular set.
Unfortunaly circle_o at F10C already is also the same regular set icon.
And we try to prefer the solid set if a regular set has been used
already.
[how]
Add one specific exception to the rule :-(
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
youtube and cloudsmith should change their codepoints, because youtube
occupies a 'lesser' youtube codepoint and yields a 'better' codepoint to
cloudsmith.
Better means the icon looks more like in FA 4.
Also swap the devices icons that in 4 showed a screen and now it is
filled.
[how]
The mechanics is a bit ... ugly.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When creating the renaming table the wrong number has been entered
(twice the same).
[how]
Correct the renaming thereby making the renamed icon visible.
The icon that has been 'kicked out' is moved to the end of the patched
block.
New:
F0E6 F0E6 regular/comments.svg
Moved:
F374 EFC2 brands/avianex.svg (was previously on F0E6)
Renamed:
RENAME comments_o to comment_o (F0E5)
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The open variants of circle_xmark and circle_check are missing.
[how]
Rename the filled versions to their old (i.e. FA 4.2) names
(remove_sign and ok_sign) and let the open (regular) variants
find their place automatically.
Because we now have two more icons that would move all codepoints we can
either drop the icons that occupied the circle_xmark and circle_check
codepoints before, or we move the to the end (unpatched yet) region.
As these are just some more arrows, we drop them.
Dropped:
F30B F05C solid/right-long.svg
F30C F05D solid/up-long.svg
New:
F05C F05C regular/circle-xmark.svg
F05D F05D regular/circle-check.svg
Renamed:
RENAME circle_xmark to remove_sign (F057)
RENAME circle_check to ok_sign (F058)
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
This does not pull in all icons of 6.5.1, but only of
'Region A' and 'Region B', see script `remix` and
PR #1563.
It keeps the codepoints constant for existing icons.
Fixes: #1550
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
This squashes also these commits:
* ds-store
* ZedMono: Clean up files
Remove files that should not be in the PR, because they are autocreated
or belong somewhere else.
* Also divide Extended and non-Extended versions.
* ZedMono: Fix metadata
* ZedMono: Fix some metadata
* ZedMono: Drop some more exotic weights and restructure dirs
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
'for Code' variants.
Rename RecMonoSemicausal to RecMonoSemi to avoid too long font names
after we add 'Nerd Font Mono' )or even (NFM) to it.
Fixes: #845
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
Sqashed these commits:
* Remove Thin, Extra-Light, Semi-Bold and Heavy variants of IosevkaTermSlab
* Remove Thin, Extra-Light, Semi-Bold and Heavy files after unpacking
* No more subfolders per weight
* Revert commiting patched fonts
* Rewrite update scripts
* Update readme.md
[why]
The outlines in Terminus 4.49.2 are rather weird. Autoconverted but not
too nice.
[how]
Update to 4.49.3 as tis has much better outlines.
Fixes: #1329
Suggested-by: Wiesław Herr @herself
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
For new fonts we do not create one subdirectory for each font file anymore.
The (historic) reason were the many variants that each font file had been
patched with. Nowadays we just have 3 variants for each font file.
And anyhow this font is release archive released only.
[how]
Simplify update script and move font files.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
We still fight with the faint lines on the big side of the powerline
glyphs. They come from the LCD antialiasing mode that has problems with
the borders.
Other fonts use far more overlap. We use only a modest amount of overlap
(1% of the width).
[how]
As the other fonts do, increase the overlap (to 6% now).
Add full-hight 'landing platforms' on the outsides of the glyphs,
which are 7% wide.
Related: a8b9e1da06
Related: #1245Fixes: #1547
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The glyph is extremely complex with very thin open spaces and bridges.
Obviously a conversion from some colored icon that has not been looked
at too hard.
[how]
Remove all the small crevices, smoothen the surface carefully and make
too thin strokes a bit wider.
We still keep the Devicons goal "very crisp icons" so that no rounding
of the paths and reduction of points is used.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The carons are all upside down.
The dcaron and tcaron should use an 'apothrophe'.
[how]
The simplify the fixing of all carons we take the excellent fork ofu
Rodrigo Batista de Moraes that (re?)creates the letters with caron from
references.
Just manually flip the caron and all combined glyphs will be fixed.
Create a combining-comma-above-right from the ordinary comma.
Reference that for dcaron and tcaron.
Rerun `make-bold` which creates the two otf files.
Fixes: #1492
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
