be5invis / Iosevka

Versatile typeface for code, from code.
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Glyph adjustment for lowercase h with circumflex #1457

Closed jmcwilliams403 closed 1 year ago

jmcwilliams403 commented 1 year ago

having the circumflex hover over the empty space is undesirable, and there are many fonts which hang the circumflex over the stem which looks much more pleasing to the eye:
bildo additionally, there exist a few fonts which are unicode-aware enough to apply the same metrics to b/d/k with a combining circumflex:
bildo

be5invis commented 1 year ago

Many fonts do it differently, placing the marks centered, like Brill and Minion.

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jmcwilliams403 commented 1 year ago

The centered form comes from how it would look from typewriters but I would argue that it's not how most people would naturally write it by hand. bildo I would also like to point out that this is how it looks in the official Unicode chart pdf: bildo

jmcwilliams403 commented 1 year ago

I would also like to point out that the issue of where to best put the circumflex is often debated amongst Esperanto speakers. Here's a graphic from the Wikipedia article for Ĥ showing the three variations that different fonts often do: bildo

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