Asymmetry between slash and backslash

pcaro90 / hermit

Hermit is a monospace font designed to be clear, pragmatic and very readable.

https://pcaro.es/p/hermit

SIL Open Font License 1.1

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Asymmetry between slash and backslash #15

Closed integral-dw closed 4 years ago

integral-dw commented 4 years ago

Hi,

very lovely font, but there is one thing I don't quite understand: Why did you distinguish the two slashes in such a way that only one rests on the baseline? I am just genuinely curious why. I mean, slashes and backslashes are almost always entirely different beasts semantically, so breaking the symmetry makes sense, but I would have expected a play with, say the weight of the characters (maybe the backslash being a bit lighter as it usually serves as an escape character), but not their relative horizontal orientation.

pcaro90 commented 4 years ago

They are completely symmetrical:

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Which variant (light, bold...) are you using?

integral-dw commented 4 years ago

All three weights seem to behave like this, for example medium: spikes I'm on Fedora, and the behavior persists across applications, under both KDE and Cinnamon.

pcaro90 commented 4 years ago

Are you using v2.0? I slightly tweaked a lot of glyphs in this version, maybe I found the asymmetry and fixed it without documenting the change...

integral-dw commented 4 years ago

You're right, the Fedora package pcaro-hermit-fonts-1.21-13 is not quite up-to-date. v2.0 has it fixed. spikes-v2

pcaro90 commented 4 years ago

Awesome! :D