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Hmm -- I do not understand what is the use case for this. For best design, clearly, I'd use a proportional font. So whenever I want a monospace font, there ar

Hmm -- I do not understand what is the use case for this. For best design, clearly, I'd use a proportional font. So whenever I want a monospace font, there are reasons that exclude proportional fonts. An obvious reason would be a grid that the letters need to be arranged in (for whatever reason). But then, I can only imagine that any smart rearrangement of letters out of their grid box will be unwanted, because it interfere with that grid. Instead, stupidly simple letter placement will be what I want. I have an idea for an advanced technique that yields much better visual appearance (but that is also not want you'd want, for the same reasons): instead of just focussing on pairs of letters (so primitive!), consider whole words and optimise their letters' shape, width, and horizontal position, but keep the size of box of the word. I call that 'equilibrium texture healing'.

heisenzombie 3y ago
In this technique the letters do not leave their grid box. A wide letter next to a narrow letter will at most push hard up against the edge of its box (usually there has to be white space there so that, e.g. mm doesn’t become one glyph)
- finnh 3y ago
  The text states that, but then in the Healing Examples section [0], the "m" in "filming" clearly spills over its left border line. Is that just a poorly drawn/incorrect example graphic? [0] https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/blob/main/docs/Texture%20Healing.md#healing-examples https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/blob/main/docs/Textu...
  - ec109685 3y ago
    It still makes lines with N characters take up the same amount of space, honoring the fundamental characteristic of monotype.
ska 3y ago
It seems to be a weird mix of half-assed kerning and scaling mixed together. Perceptually, based only on playing with it a minute, it seems to improve legibility a bit (but not as much as a proportional font would be) but also visually breaks the alignment a little sometimes. Not sure it's a worthwhile overall, but interesting.
- galaxyLogic 3y ago
  I think it is intersting and can be improved

heisenzombie 3y ago

In this technique the letters do not leave their grid box. A wide letter next to a narrow letter will at most push hard up against the edge of its box (usually there has to be white space there so that, e.g. mm doesn’t become one glyph)

finnh 3y ago
The text states that, but then in the Healing Examples section [0], the "m" in "filming" clearly spills over its left border line. Is that just a poorly drawn/incorrect example graphic? [0] https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/blob/main/docs/Texture%20Healing.md#healing-examples https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/blob/main/docs/Textu...
- ec109685 3y ago
  It still makes lines with N characters take up the same amount of space, honoring the fundamental characteristic of monotype.

ska 3y ago

It seems to be a weird mix of half-assed kerning and scaling mixed together. Perceptually, based only on playing with it a minute, it seems to improve legibility a bit (but not as much as a proportional font would be) but also visually breaks the alignment a little sometimes. Not sure it's a worthwhile overall, but interesting.

galaxyLogic 3y ago
I think it is intersting and can be improved