silnrsi / font-padauk

Padauk pan Myanmar font
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Sharpening the corners #48

Open mhosken opened 1 year ago

mhosken commented 1 year ago

We have received this request:

Please can we sharpen the corners for characters like: ြ, ျ ည. See this example:

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An initial analysis suggests that this affects the following glyphs:

u103C, u103C. u1009, u1009., u1014_u1010_u103C, u101E_u1010_u103C, u1025, u1026, u1029, u102A, uAA7A, uAA7A.aiph

I don't think there is anything to be done with u103A since this glyph is already sharp.

I expect that the design change will also affect: u100B_u100C, u100C, u100C.thai, u1024, u104C, u104D, u1051_u100C, u105D, u109F?, uAA65, uAA6D, uAA74-uAA77, uAA7A

There is considerable variation over what is acceptable styling. Compare the sample above with u103C taken from PyiDaungsu, the government standard font: image

I think the following questions need to be answered: