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IdreesInc / Monocraft

A monospaced programming font inspired by the Minecraft typeface
https://idreesinc.com
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Add ligatures for colon colon and period period #27

Closed maddymakesgames closed 1 year ago

maddymakesgames commented 1 year ago

Added ligatures for :: and .., these are commonly used character pairs in Rust.

Without ligatures these character sequences are pretty wide before_ligature

With them they are more condensed and leave more room for the important parts of the code after_ligature

joshudson commented 1 year ago

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of being a monspaced font?

maddymakesgames commented 1 year ago

yeah but most ligatures already aren't monospace so I don't think that matters?

WexCore commented 1 year ago

Already existing ligatures take the same space as the symbols they replace. Like "⇒" take the same 2 symbols of space as "=>" Yours seems not to follow the same pattern and it needs to be fixed, I guess.

IdreesInc commented 1 year ago

Thank you for taking the time to create new ligatures! Unfortunately since ligatures must be monospaced as well, we are stuck in a weird situation where you have to use small pixels and leave a lot of whitespace. For glyphs made of dots like . and :, ligatures might not look great in this situation.