be5invis / Iosevka

Versatile typeface for code, from code.
http://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka
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Serif forms of some existing characters #1489

Closed Logo121 closed 1 year ago

Logo121 commented 1 year ago

Below is a comparison between several serif (not necessarily monospace) fonts and Iosevka, on some glyphs that should have serifs, but is not given one in Iosevka. (unsupported characters are rendered in unifont instead) image Text: ǷƿȜȝᵹꝽѠѡѼѽѾѿꙌꙍ

Some notes:

be5invis commented 1 year ago

I ususally use Brill as reference. Here are the Crillic Omegas:

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I don't think inward hooks in the "broad" shape are serifs, so for these I will keep the current shape. For non-broad Omega I will adopt the W-like shape for both the cases.

Logo121 commented 1 year ago

Ok, but I don't feel like the current glyphs look like they have "inward hooks" either.

Here's a comparison using the above fonts (+ Brill and Noto Sans) for reference (the ones on the left are the tangentially related latin omegas (Ꞷꞷ)): image

Most fonts seem to at least make the non-greek omegas have more pronounced hooks to differentiate(?) them from the greek one.

Also these examples in the Russian Wikipedia: image

pv4 commented 1 year ago

Here are the Crillic Omegas:

@be5invis thank you! I will use one of them as my profile picture :D