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larsenwork / monoid

Customisable coding font with alternates, ligatures and contextual positioning. Crazy crisp at 12px/9pt. http://larsenwork.com/monoid/
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A few kerning issues #111

Closed p-e-w closed 8 years ago

p-e-w commented 8 years ago

monoid-kerning-issues

Media: i-a spacing is a bit too much

Powerline: r-l spacing is far too much, it almost looks like two separate words

Semi-condensed: The hyphen is closer to the c than to the i

editors: r-s spacing is slightly too much, making the s appear somehow separate

supersized: The si looks a bit like a separate entity

writing: w-r spacing is too little, looking cramped. n-g is also a bit close together

larsenwork commented 8 years ago

Powerline, i-c and writing can be improved.

Not sure about the rest - you might want to try it with the stemmed i instead

rzlourenco commented 8 years ago

Could this be related to ligatures? With ligatures: screenshot from 2015-08-08 11-19-39 Without ligatures: screenshot from 2015-08-08 11-19-58 Note that with ligatures the characters are more evenly spaced. Without them, some seem to cluster (i.e. smi in dismiss and on in function). The screenshots were taken on Firefox 39 on Linux.

Another example: screenshot from 2015-08-08 11-28-47 screenshot from 2015-08-08 11-28-36 Take a closer look to Tight, the g in Ligatures, the ne and ei in LineHeight.

larsenwork commented 8 years ago

I've improved "Powerline" and "Semi-condensed" the rest can't really be improved or is a matter of not having ligatures turned on as @rzlourenco said

larsenwork commented 8 years ago

Will be included in next update

larsenwork commented 8 years ago

improvements added in 0.61