[Glyph Request] curly variants for k, x and z

be5invis / Iosevka

Versatile typeface for code, from code.

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[Glyph Request] curly variants for k, x and z #362

Closed wimstefan closed 3 years ago

wimstefan commented 5 years ago

Your font version: git latest master - currently b92ca29a
Your font variant: Iosevka Term customized
Your operating system (name and version): Linux Gentoo
Your application using Iosevka: terminals

I love the tailed 'f' you created some time ago and I also use the curly version of 'y'. Would it be possible to create curly versions of the letters 'k' and 'z' as used in IBM Plex Mono Italic and 'x' as used in Overlock? Please see the pictures below for illustration ...

IBM-Plex-Mono-Italic-k IBM-Plex-Mono-Italic-z Overlock-Regular-x

tomByrer commented 4 years ago

Would be a nice addition to the italics. Though I would prefer a slightly more arched diangular bar on the Z, similar to the X perhaps?

AndydeCleyre commented 4 years ago

Here's another comparison shot of the fonts mentioned, along with Baumans (which does a nice job with z and Z) and Ruluko (which is close to Overlock with k and x):

I have no complaints about Iosevka's existing kKxX set, but wouldn't mind a more curvaceous zZ set as long as it doesn't look too similar to 2.

wimstefan commented 4 years ago

I saw that you integrated v-k-cursive ... many thanks for that! Unfortunately the loop looks a bit squashed when using condensed in private-build-plans.toml so I went back to v-k-curly.

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akarzim commented 4 years ago

@be5invis K and X have their curly variant. What about Z?
Maybe something like this:

akarzim commented 3 years ago

@be5invis what about this curly z variant for the final 4.0.0 ? It would be great :)

kauesena commented 3 years ago

@be5invis I've seen this issue was closed, but I would like to suggest an even curlier version of the current alternatives. I assume that, in the images below, the curly z that was added is the fourth and the curly x that was added is the second.
It would be great to have even curlier alternatives such as the IBM Plex ones:

kauesena commented 3 years ago

At first, when I saw such characters in IBM Plex Mono Italic, I thought they were too much. Nowadays, I love them. Specially the z.

wimstefan commented 3 years ago

That was my initial request ... ;)

ghost commented 3 years ago

How about those from Recursive Mono as well? #852

x, z