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Monospaced bitmap fonts
https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/
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[REQUEST] Change vertical alignment for tilde #10

Closed crinklywrappr closed 4 years ago

crinklywrappr commented 4 years ago

Spleen vertically aligns tilde's to the top of the glyph, but it arguably looks better when centered.

fcambus commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion, I think it makes sense indeed.

I'm experimenting with the change and will likely end up commiting it in a few days.

fcambus commented 4 years ago

Fixed in 734fd650d9ca38395cca085c89d485f7729dc32e.

Alhadis commented 4 years ago

Thank christ for that. Just an FYI, the elevated tilde is a throwback to the typewriter days, when overstriking was used to produce accented letters:

ñ = n + backspace + ~.

Obviously, that's not needed anymore... 😉 But type designers keep drudging this anachronism up, probably because they're used to it from older screen-fonts (probably from an era that did use overstriking… 😞)