Go bold and oblique

[larsenwork]

As people who look in the source may have noticed I've been fiddling with Monoid Bold and just wanted to share a screenshot.

I'm trying to keep it over the same grid so typographically I'm making all sorts of mistakes but I wanted to see if it was possible to make it just as crisp as the normal weight.

[stuartjmoore]

How about Italic or oblique? I use them for comments, documentation, and literals in my code.

[larsenwork]

@stuartjmoore the editors I've used just use fake obliques which at 14px looks just as fine as proper obliques but that might not be the case for all editors?

[stuartjmoore]

As far as I can tell, it’s not an option for Xcode.

[larsenwork]

Cheers, next update to the master branch will have a test folder with work-in-progress versions of both oblique and bold. So if you can test those and report back at some point it'd be :+1:

[larsenwork]

@stuartjmoore I've opted too only slant it by 11 degrees as it aligns well with the grid. Do you think it's enough?

[stuartjmoore]

Looks pretty good; I'll have to take a closer look later.

PS, it’s not technically italic, but oblique roman (preferred in this case I think).

[larsenwork]

@stuartjmoore hehe...I know (https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/issues/22#event-331292653). Oblique was just too long to fit in the screenshot...

[larsenwork]

@chase no pressure (you were busy this month;) but the oblique version will probably be ready fairly soon so will be great once the build script supports it.

[chase]

Should be able to add the .sfdir to the build script's font array: https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/blob/master/build.py#L14

[larsenwork]

@chase but that's too easy :godmode:

[larsenwork]

@chase just prior to #34 I did one build that had both regular and obliques resulting in obliques being the default font on the website.

And semi related: It would be cool if e.g.

Monoid-regular-l.ttf, Monoid-oblique-l.ttf, Monoid Bold-l.ttf (last one not added yet)

were put in

Monoid-l.zip

[larsenwork]

@stuartjmoore try these: https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/tree/master/Testing

[stuartjmoore]

Awesome; looking great. Can’t wait for the bold version.

[chase]

@larsenwork I'll get on that as soon as I can.

[larsenwork]

@chase no stress :)

[larsenwork]

@chase it seems like the script generates both oblique + regular but whichever is last https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/blob/master/build.py#L14 overwrites the other (so with current config only regular gets moved into the release folder).

[larsenwork]

@chase just a heads up that I had force fetch to get the build working: https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/blob/master/circle.yml#L10 As written in #38 it's probably a good idea to superbuild to a release2.0 branch until it works without hiccups :smile:

[chase]

So sorry about that. What I should have done is modify my own fork instead of fiddling with something that works right before your presentation.

[larsenwork]

No worries, force fetch fixed it real quick

[chase]

Numbers and most swap-able don't have bold versions it seems.

[larsenwork]

Nope - work in progress :)

[larsenwork]

Bold and oblique complete