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jpt / barlow

Barlow: a straight-sided sans-serif superfamily
https://tribby.com/fonts/barlow
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Please add mono space style #35

Open joo opened 6 years ago

joo commented 6 years ago

if add mono space style, that's perfect!

jpt commented 6 years ago

Hi @joo -- I would like to! I'll keep this open in case anyone wants to contribute as it may take me some time to get it.

thatcort commented 5 years ago

I would find this really useful too. Especially to have tabular numbers. Please and thank you :)

alturnwall commented 4 years ago

Hi @jpt , I'm also interested in tabular numbers, and would be interested in helping make it happen. Would it be useful to have help on tabular numbers without being able to commit to a full mono style?

thatcort commented 4 years ago

@alturnwall I discovered that tabular numbers are available as long as you download and host the font files yourself. They don't seem to be available in the Google Fonts hosted files.

alturnwall commented 4 years ago

@thatcort wow, thanks for the heads up, I had no idea this version was different than the Google fonts version. Thanks!

rchanou commented 4 years ago

It appears the Google Fonts version now has tabular numbers, too.* To any web devs not seeing numbers line up, make sure you declare font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums in your CSS.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant-numeric

(I just learned about this property myself for the first time when looking into this issue, so I figured others might find this tip useful too.)

*Edit: Never mind, my SCSS didn't rebuild so I thought it was using Google Fonts. After more testing, it looks like you do need to both self-host the latest official version and declare font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums.

ghost commented 4 years ago

Using Barlow as the OSD font in IINA video player, makes timestamps/frame counts shift a lot. On the other hand, for static elements, such as subtitles, it's wonderful. So another vote for tabular numbers/mono style.

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ghost commented 4 years ago

Would it be useful to have help on tabular numbers without being able to commit to a full mono style?

I think it would be sufficient (I don't think anyone is using Barlow for code).

thatcort commented 4 years ago

The one place where I found it would have been useful was for vertically aligning dates in a dashboard app. Tabular numbers aligned most of the dates, but the three letter month names have varying width. I agree that it's likely not worth the effort of a full monospace style... unless you want to ;)

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I think it would be sufficient (I don't think anyone is using Barlow for code).

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jpt commented 2 years ago

it does for numerals only. there was an experimental mono version. it could be nice. looking into it.

ymyke commented 2 years ago

Here's another vote vor monospace numerals. We use Barlow for investment reports and it would look much cleaner if the numbers aligned properly.

jpt commented 2 years ago

Hi @ymyke — monospace numerals are already available. You can track progress on the branch with the latest version of them in issue #39. This issue is an unrelated feature request for an entire monospaced font.

ymyke commented 2 years ago

Thanks, @jpt – so to get the monospace numerals in MS Office I can just install the tffs from the 1.5 tree and get them automatically? Can I make them work in Google Docs as well?

jpt commented 2 years ago

No, for google docs you'll have to wait till build 1.5 is merged into the google fonts upstream. apologies for the wait, but it shouldn't be much longer.

ymyke commented 2 years ago

Thanks! Re MS Office: I installed the fonts from the 1.5 branch but the numerals still show up in non-monospace. Is there anything else I need to do to use the monospace numerals in MS Office (Word in this case)?

jpt commented 2 years ago

In Word 2010ʼs Home tab (before Word 2010 not supported), click the Font Dialog Box Launcher, then click the Advanced tab, where you can select number forms (from https://www.typotheque.com/help/opentype_fonts/how_can_i_use_different_numerals_in_microsoft_word)

ymyke commented 2 years ago

That worked, thanks, and much appreciated. We love Barlow!