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This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.
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alternate version with slashed zero and regular number four. please do not deliver the current 4 number as default to eastern europe. #559

Closed mailinglists35 closed 2 years ago

mailinglists35 commented 2 years ago

Description of the new feature/enhancement (with images if possible)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashed_zero and the current number four reminds me of soviet occupation of eastern europe as it resembles with their capital letter ц and only seeing that makes me sick. no matter how I like this new font, I will never be able to use it because of that character 4

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aaronbell commented 2 years ago

A slashed zero is accessible via stylistic set 19 (Please see the README).

Sorry you don't like the 4, but I don't think it looks anything like the ц and have no intention to change the design at this time.

Screen Shot 2021-08-12 at 2 46 10 PM

See? :)

mailinglists35 commented 2 years ago

I don't think it looks anything like the ц

does not look to you. it definitely looks to me strong enough to make effort to file this issue and describe the feeling. but I guess you cannot imagine the feeling when you've grown out in a free country that never has been under soviet occupation

mailinglists35 commented 2 years ago

basically every variant of 4 that has the two upper lines approximately equal and not closed resembles the russian letter.

these are tolerable versions: 2021-08-17_18-23-40

these along with Cascadia version are unacceptable versions: https://www.designyourway.net/drb/ths/diverse/russianfonts/Soviet.jpg https://ct.mob0.com/Fonts/CharacterMap/soviet.png https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/42/13/16421312e6fef18a8cb29f3b2337b5a5.jpg https://allyourfonts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Soviet-Font-Free-Download1.jpg https://www.fontriver.com/font/soviet/ https://www.designyourway.net/free/back-in-the-ussr/ https://www.designyourway.net/free/kremlin-grand-duke/ https://www.designyourway.net/free/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Kremlin.jpg

At least please provide an alternate version.

aaronbell commented 2 years ago

Honestly, Cascadia Code has been out and available for 2+ years now, with people from around the world using it without any issue, including folks from Eastern Europe.

Thus far yours is the only complaint that we have received regarding a perceived similarity to soviet letterforms. While I respect your opinion and the fact that the shape of the 4 bothers you, I don't plan to change the font based on a single person's opinion.

I'm sorry that the font doesn't work for you and hope you find another that works better.