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Document how Symbols Nerd Fonts Mono is generated #32

Closed jimeh closed 1 year ago

jimeh commented 1 year ago

I have had a bit of poke around, but couldn't find any reference to the how the font is created.

I'm asking, cause none of the official Nerd Fonts, nor any variants I generate myself (Mono, normal, Propo) have the same icon size/width as Symbols Nerd Fonts Mono, making them all look a little "off", while Symbols Nerd Fonts Mono looks perfect.

Mostly this is so that I can have icons look right when running Emacs in a terminal where I use a Nerd Font variant I generate myself.

Thanks :)

rainstormstudio commented 1 year ago

Nerd Font Release calls it "NerdFontsSymbolsOnly". It contains Symbols Nerd Font and Symbols Nerd Font Mono. I'm simply using the font from the official release.

The benefit of using this is that it includes the variable width of the fonts when compiling it, which fixes some clipped issues. Reference: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/issues/442#issuecomment-1263358904 Based on the reference above, if you want to include the variable width for your font patch, you need to use --variable-width-glyph when you patch your font.

jimeh commented 1 year ago

Thanks, that's really useful, and points me towards where to investigate next.

Annoyingly my custom patched font that uses --variable-width-glyph doesn't properly match the style of the symbols font. I'll dig deeper and see what I can find. As for this issue, I'm happy to close it :)