Hard to distinguish between "–" and "-"

microsoft / cascadia-code

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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Hard to distinguish between "–" and "-" #617

Open byyxx128 opened 2 years ago

byyxx128 commented 2 years ago

Cascadia family version

2111.01

Cascadia family variant(s)

Cascadia Code (the version with ligatures), Cascadia Mono (the version without ligatures)

Font file format(s)

Windows Terminal included version (TTF (variable)), .ttf (variable), .ttf (static), .otf (static), .woff2 (variable), .woff2 (static)

Platform

Windows

Other Software

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What happened?

As of the version 2111.01, it is still difficult to recognize the difference between – and -.

cormullion commented 2 years ago

To save anyone else the trouble, that's

– endash (Unicode 2013) 
- hyphen-minus (Unicode 002D)

I'll add, just for completeness:

− minus (Unicode 2212)

Whether these should be very different in a monospaced font is probably debatable... 😄

nashpatty commented 2 years ago

@aaronbell I second this request. Could the width of the dash character be reduced a little? In cascadia mono, the space between consecutive dash characters is not distinguishable enough in my opinion.

fitojb commented 1 year ago

This one is a real everyday problem, ~~and not the shape of the tilde that was made completely horizontal due to a dude who knew nothing about typography complaining in #216~~

valentjn commented 1 year ago

Duplicate of #496