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datMaffin / monofoki

a programming typeface
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Ligatures #36

Closed 57r31 closed 1 year ago

57r31 commented 1 year ago

Really nice code font @datMaffin ! Any chance to add ligatures to it? I'd try myself but need some directions

datMaffin commented 1 year ago

Hey,

Thanks for the compliment :)

You probably already found https://github.com/datMaffin/monofoki/issues/33 The "upstream" font, also does not have any plans for it https://github.com/madmalik/mononoki/issues/29#issuecomment-1236322805 . So I think the best quick way would be patch some other ligatures into this font.

Regarding giving some directions: I would guess that the regular ligature feature of fonts is used. Every font editor should support those. From my experience, getting warm with FontForge takes a long time, but it is free, and nowadays rarely crashes anymore. But I would not include those ligatures in this version of the font, but feel free to fork.

57r31 commented 1 year ago

thanks @datMaffin https://www.glyphrstudio.com/v2/app/ this look really promising, think I'll give it a try

datMaffin commented 1 year ago

The exported file that should be closest to what is saved in the .sfd files are the .otf files. However, its still kind of sub-optimal (for example, I tell FontForge to unlink what it can). but should be enough to play with.

If you want, I can also export the .sfd files with FontForge to UFO (which I believe is the most popular format font editors support).

57r31 commented 1 year ago

actually this thing did the job perfectly https://github.com/57r31/monofoki/blob/master/pic.png may still need some tweaking though