xeniafont

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by xeniafont 8mo ago
released five weights
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
oh thats really nice of you to say... thank you codezero
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
thank you so much!
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
thank you so much! im autistic and its soothing to me :)
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
you folks are super harsh... my gosh lolz
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
i code like 18 hours a day... so i tweeked the font solely for myself, until it worked for me... for instance, the hashtag was super important, because i mostly code in python, so it went thru many iterations before i was happy with it... i
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
and you dont even need all the A-z and digits...
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
ya... so i just use reportlab and i just created custom drawing classes for lines and arcs, which takes in a variable "weight" that controls the "thickness" of the line it draws... and then after you generate the "b
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
oh okay so i had chatgpt generate the readme for me... and thats just how it came out... i dont really know how to shrink the size of the buymeacoffee banner... i didnt mean for it to be so big... i just have never done anything like this..
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
what kind of issues?
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
no
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
if you file a ticket or email me, i can try to get to the glyphs that you need... when i have time... thanks!
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
i don't like the lowercase "a" because i dont understand why it looks like a backwards six... i don't understand why it has that tail on top...
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
yes, im gonna fix this... honestly i didnt realize anyone would be actually interested... i've gotten really great responses... thank you so much! companies have actually been reaching out to me! im really honored thank you!
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
ya... the i was a tough one to do... because its a trade off you know? between having honor the fact that its a slim character and having it match the look of the others... this was incredibly difficult to do because of the fact that the ch
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by xeniafont 9mo ago
hey! no i wasnt planning to charge... should i? the reason i didnt release the other weights is because i built the glyphs scaled by the width of the line... so i haven't really tested out the other "weights"... meaning, i ha
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Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine(github.com)
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