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Typefaces for source code beautification
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reference table or find-a-font #138

Open pvinis opened 8 years ago

pvinis commented 8 years ago

we could classify the fonts here by their properties, so if i want to check out a new font, i could click what kind of a i want, and 0, etc. or i could click "tall", or "more square", and i can get the total list reduced to the fonts with those attributes.

chrissimpkins commented 8 years ago

I have been giving some consideration to this recently and have not come up with a good approach yet. There may be a way to display metrics in some way. Let me think about it a bit.

chrissimpkins commented 8 years ago

We're somewhat limited in the Github markdown files with filtering/sorting on properties like you suggest so that would require a separate web application. Thoughts about another approach that would not require us to build a separate site?

tomByrer commented 8 years ago

For characters with character like "ag0m" etc, I'd think the character specimens should be enough for now. Perhaps they could be moved to the top line of one for easy scanning. Filtering would take a separate website.

chrissimpkins commented 8 years ago

@tomByrer :+1:

chrissimpkins commented 8 years ago

We are beginning to address this issue with data tables in the font directories. I just added vertical metrics tables to each directory that includes metrics involved in line spacing. This allows you to compare across different typefaces. We also released a new tool that allows you to modify the line spacing in any font if you'd like to attempt to make it more similar to spacing that you like from another face. The tables in this repo can be used for reference as you make changes. https://github.com/source-foundry/font-line