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Intel One Mono font repository
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@ is very thin on thicker weights #1

Closed morganholly closed 1 year ago

morganholly commented 1 year ago

I first noticed this on the preview image, where each of the characters looks a different weight except ! and $. After installing the font, # looks fine, but @ stays thin for thicker weights which looks out of place to me. It is a more complex character to do thick and small, but I've seen some very good takes on that from other fonts, often by losing the hole in the center a.

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MatthewTurrini commented 1 year ago

Thanks for noting this. We'll look into it.

MatthewTurrini commented 1 year ago

This intentional. It's a point of differentiation. It allows the @ (and a few others characters in teh set) to stand out within surrounding characters.