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tonsky / FiraCode

Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Draw pipe symbol as vertical line on italic version #375

Closed Strate closed 7 years ago

Strate commented 7 years ago

Thank you for this font! I suggest you to draw pipe character (|) always vertical, even in italic mode. Because it could be mixed up with slash (/) characted. Many programming fonts do this, for example Hasklig. Also look to screens.

FiraCode: image

Hasklig: image

sainaen commented 7 years ago

Hasklig is based on Source Code Pro, that has an italic variant, while Fira Code's base (Fira Mono) does not. So it's actually your editor/text rendering engine that makes pipe symbol appear slanted.

I'm afraid it's not something that could be easily fixed within font itself.

tonsky commented 7 years ago

@sainaen is right, I just want to add that this sort of thing should be fixed in the font, by providing the proper italics. Unfortunately, it’s like developing the whole new font: it’s out of my reach.