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tonsky / FiraCode

Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Ligature request: /_\ and \-/ #838

Open AlphaJack opened 5 years ago

AlphaJack commented 5 years ago

I love how |> becomes a right-pointing triangle, I use it everyday in my shell prompt! I like it better than ▷, the white right-pointing triangle Unicode, because this symbol appears smaller than the text next to it. Ditto for <|.

Why don't render /_\ as an up-pointing triangle and \-/ (or something else) to a down-pointing one?

tonsky commented 5 years ago

Any precedents where those are used?

AlphaJack commented 5 years ago

I don't know any programming language that could benefit from these ligatures, but I would use them as "play", "download" and navigation arrows in my website, since your font is rendered instantly in every browser I've tried

zencd commented 5 years ago

Use any other font where you will enjoy the triangles, or SVG. What is the problem?

polarathene commented 4 years ago

For website use, just use SVG, you can get the exact design/shape you want, it doesn't have to be mapped to text and load in some webfont before correcting it's display(and possible reflow).

If you really want such as a font, there are online tools where you can place the SVGs into a font and map to whatever you like, it'd be lighter weight since you can subset the font to just the glyphs used.