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Superscript support for scientific plots (superscript minus and dot operator) #29

Open piever opened 3 years ago

piever commented 3 years ago

I find that Open Sans works beautifully as a font face for scientific plots (ticks and labels), and I would like to use it as default theme for a scientific visualization library (see these examples).

The only issue I've encountered so far is that it does not support some characters needed for "log scale plots" to simulate exponents, namely superscript minus and dot operator .

Compare Open Sans version (using light weight for ticks)

superscript_open_sans

with Fira Sans version (always light weights for ticks)

superscript_fira_sans

Would it be possible to add those two glyphs?