mirror of
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts.git
synced 2024-09-19 09:51:48 +02:00
a044611194
[why] The systematic evaluation of all fonts is finished and we do not need any comparison with the old naming anymore. This can partially replaced by something like NERDFONTS='--debug --dry --makegroups 1' ./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh -cv /iA-Writer | grep '===' [note] Also update query_names helper to what I used recently with length indicators. Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
71 lines
3.1 KiB
Markdown
71 lines
3.1 KiB
Markdown
## Creating Consistently Grouped Patched Fonts
|
|
|
|
This is a small sub-project to font-patcher that uses a little bit more knowledge
|
|
to come up with font names and name parts. In applications multiple fonts are grouped
|
|
under a 'Family'. Each member of the Family has a different 'SubFamily' or 'Style'.
|
|
|
|
Consider a font named 'Times' that has two variants: normal and bold. For this font the
|
|
Family would be 'Times' and the 'Style' would be 'Regular' (i.e normal) in one file and
|
|
'Bold' in the other file.
|
|
|
|
With this information applications are able to group all 'Times' together and additionally choose the
|
|
'Bold' font if the user pushes the 'B' button on the font style dialog in that application.
|
|
|
|
### Motivation
|
|
|
|
Quite a number of patched fonts have inconsistent or simply wrong font grouping. The naming in
|
|
general is sometimes surprising and not following naming conventions. This is in part due to
|
|
the font-patcher, but in part the source fonts are already strange.
|
|
This results in invisible (but installed) fonts in some applications, inconsistent naming
|
|
(Familyname differs from Fullname) and not correctly working bold/italic selectors in some applications.
|
|
|
|
And we would like to have the information within the names sorted in a consistent way.
|
|
usually a font name consists of these parts (in this order):
|
|
|
|
1. Name base (e.g. `Noto`)
|
|
2. Variant (e.g. `Sans`)
|
|
3. Subvariant (e.g. `Display`)
|
|
4. Weight (e.g. `Black`)
|
|
5. Style (e.g. `Italic`)
|
|
|
|
This is important because we want to add subvariant information, namely the `Nerd Font` part.
|
|
|
|
Example:
|
|
|
|
* (old) `Iosevka Term Light Italic Nerd Font`
|
|
* (new) `Iosevka Term Nerd Font Light Italic`
|
|
|
|
### The Plan
|
|
|
|
To solve these issues the font name parts have to be analyzed more thoroughly and then categorized.
|
|
These categories are then used to assemble the names in correct order. The simple (not
|
|
typographically aware) applications shall always get groups of at most four styles, and these
|
|
are Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold-Italic. Other styles turn up as Families, because this is the
|
|
only way they would work in these more simple applications.
|
|
|
|
Typographically aware applications, on the other hand, get all styles grouped under one Family name.
|
|
|
|
First experiments showed that the full information can usually be restored already from the file
|
|
names that our source fonts have.
|
|
|
|
This new naming is complete optional (but recommended). Give the option `--makegroups` to `font-patcher`
|
|
and it will try to come up with reasonable grouping and naming. Leave the option out and it will
|
|
work as it always did.
|
|
|
|
### The Tests
|
|
|
|
In this directory were two tests. If interested you need to go back in the git history.
|
|
They are not needed anymore.
|
|
|
|
### Helper scripts
|
|
|
|
There are some helper scripts that help examining the font files. Of course there are other,
|
|
more professional tools to dump font information, but here we get all we need in a concise
|
|
way:
|
|
* `query_mono` `font_name [font_name ...]`
|
|
* `query_names` `font_name [font_name ...]`
|
|
* `query_panose` `font_name`
|
|
* `query_sftn` `[<sfnt-name>] font_name`
|
|
* `query_version` `font_name`
|
|
|
|
They can be invoked like this `$ fontforge query_sfnt foo.ttf`.
|