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Not saying this applies to your situation, but I'm always slightly amused when I hear tech-oriented people say "this font would be perfect for me except for thi
by aragonite 3y ago
Not saying this applies to your situation, but I'm always slightly amused when I hear tech-oriented people say "this font would be perfect for me except for this ONE deal breaker" (often but not always the problem of insufficient differentiation of 0 and O). It's pretty trivial to modify fonts! Just download FontForge, open the font file, navigate to the code point in question, and simple operations like adding a dot or bar is usually pretty easy to figure out.
I have some proportional fonts that are perfect for some use cases except that they don't display block characters correctly and/or their digit characters are not of uniform width, and I fixed that by copy pasting from the corresponding code points from monospace fonts.
- eviks 3y agoGood point, though bugs can easily creep in with such simple edits: in your copy&paste monospaced digits example you lose the ability to have both monospaced and proportional digits via a stylistic flag (and those are useful: use monospaced in tables, use proportional digits in text) Also it's many files, not just one (though hopefully variadic fonts will catch on), so unfortunately patching fonts is a bit more complicated :( (but if it's literally close to just one thing, that it could still be worth it)
- asu_thomas 3y ago[dead]