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N-R-K / NRK-Mono

Custom version of JetBrains Mono font.
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Add .zip or any other format supported in MacOS OOB #4

Closed oshytiko closed 1 year ago

oshytiko commented 1 year ago

Please help us, soy latte drinking hipsters with MacBooks!

I had to run

brew install zstd
tar --use-compress-program=unzstd -xvf NRK-Mono-v2.1.0.tar.zst
open NRK-Mono-v2.1.0

just to open fonts folder!

Maybe .zip or tar.gz could also be added as a backup option?

N-R-K commented 1 year ago

This is actually something I've been thinking about too. On one hand zip files are much more widely supported (works OOB on windows as well) on the other hand, when it comes to compression ratio, zstd is miles ahead. Here's a recent experiment (done on the victor mono font from nerd-fonts):

[/tmp]~> du -h VictorMono.* | sort -nr
67M     VictorMono.zip
67M     VictorMono.tar.gz
65M     VictorMono.tar.bz2
4.7M    VictorMono.tar.zst

The .zip was the original file and the tar.* were made by me with highest compression setting applied for each format. The difference, as you can see, is staggering (NOTE to self: open an issue on nerd font repo asking them to provide ultra compressed .tar.zst as alternative).

However, unlike some of the nerd-fonts, NRK-Mono isn't that large (currently it's around 15MiB uncompressed). So maybe a shabbily compressed zip or tar.gz wouldn't be too bad, especially considering their wide availability OOB.

I'll think a bit more about it :)

N-R-K commented 1 year ago

I've updated the README with instructions on how to extract .tar.zst - decided not to provide .zip files. Some more details are in the commit message: c822280.