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antijingoist / open-dyslexic

What I intend to be an opensource font for dyslexics and for high readability
http://dyslexicfonts.com
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OpenDyslexicMono isn't quite monospace #62

Open stephen-smith opened 8 years ago

stephen-smith commented 8 years ago

KDE has a font selector that limits the selectable fonts to ones that have fully monospace metrics.

Right now OpenDyslexicMono is not selectable there.

Other fonts have had similar problems, and have been able to address the issue in the font.

I think I can work around my specific problem for now, but I think it would be nice to be able to simply select the font directly, when my selection is limited to fonts with monospace metrics (and not just "mono") in their name.

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stephen-smith commented 8 years ago

Maybe it's a separate issue, but I'm not sure OpenDyslexicMono should provide ligatures (fi, ff, etc.) it can cause decidedly non-monospace behavior.

stephen-smith commented 8 years ago

See also the relevant KDE issue; Qt is filtering out fonts with non-mono metrics.

antijingoist commented 8 years ago

1) some of those ligatures will be removed. 2) Yep, theres some non-mono metrics in there that need to be taken care of. If you find specific ones, I can take them out as they are found (they should have been all the same width, but I think some of the accents were not).

igalic commented 7 years ago

hey @antijingoist is there an update on this? i would love to switch my Konsole to open-dyslexic too!

igalic commented 7 years ago

here's a screenshot of spacemacs' start-screen:

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LeoPiero commented 6 years ago

I would like to see this resolved as well @antijingoist What can we provide to help resolve this issue? Are you looking for specific characters that are not sized correctly?

LeoPiero commented 6 years ago

I found 6 glyphs with a zero width, everything else looks like they have a width of 1500, hope this helps: circumflexbelowcomb commaaccentcomb dotbelowcomb hookabovecomb horncomb macronbelowcomb

antijingoist commented 6 years ago

I think this is one of those things I completed, fell asleep and thought I'd updated.

Attached a new compiled version. If it works out, I'll update the downloads.

Sources updated soon, I swear. 😬

OpenDyslexicMono-Regular.otf.zip

antijingoist commented 6 years ago

and yes, @stephen-smith , I had it generating ligatures. 🤦‍♂️

stephen-smith commented 6 years ago

@antijingoist Your attached zip didn't seem to work for me. I could have done something wrong, but installing it as a user font in ~/.fonts, running fc-cache, and even doing a full reboot didn't make the font selectable as a font the the Qt monospace font picker (tested w/ Konsole).

antijingoist commented 6 years ago

@stephen-smith I'll spin up a kde setup tomorrow and take a look. At least on MacOS, everything says its fixed width. But that's just fontbook. :D

antijingoist commented 6 years ago

I think this might be more than just me. https://github.com/madmalik/mononoki/issues/23 I'll still continue looking into it. dropping it into fontforge to check, but at this point, literally every single glyph is the same width. Anyone got a copy of fontlab or Fontographer and want to see if that pulls up something obvious?

antijingoist commented 6 years ago

Okay, how about this one?

Took some wiggling around, but it looks like it works with terminal without having to dig into all fonts.

OpenDyslexicMono-Regular.otf 2.zip

stephen-smith commented 6 years ago

Sorry about the delay, sort of forgot about this

But, yes, @antijingoist got it! This version works great. Konsole and other monospace-only font pickers show it, and it looks good.

antijingoist commented 6 years ago

No worries. I haven't had much time recently either. Thing # 1 to go right this year. Now to push the changes. As soon as I can.

Aricg commented 6 years ago

I just installed opendyslexic-fonts-0.600-8.fc26.noarch (Fedora) following the instructions on https://opendyslexic.org/download/ and there is no mono-space version.

antijingoist commented 6 years ago

My fault, I was working too much at the day job. updating and making a new release.

DonaldTsang commented 5 years ago

Hope that this can be fixed! Coding in a dyslexic monospace font is pretty relaxing.

antijingoist commented 5 years ago

It'll be finished by end of the summer, I swear. :) got bombed by lots of stuff. Good news is it's my only summer project this time.

antijingoist commented 5 years ago

If monospace is not showing, try installing directly from the repo.

LazerJesus commented 1 year ago

great thread, thank you.