Something I couldn't find in the readme (could be my fault) is the "why". What did you tweak, what where the things in Iosevka that you we're missing?
Oh thats a good point, I didn't include it.
- I changed the width of all the characters, made them like 40% wider. That was the big thing stopping me from using Iosevka; all the letters look squished to me.
- I swapped out some of the letter choices, such as making
a
look like an "o with a tail" instead of a backwards 6 with a tail (if that makes sense, its kinda hard without a picture). I did changes like that for a handful of characters, I think it was a, l, {, }, and maybe y as well. - I changed the thick/thinness options. I like really thin fonts, so I had it output ultra thin by default. I did have some trouble with the bold weight being too heavy and I'd like to tweak it more but haven't gotten around to it.
- I played around with kerning, but I think its effectively the same as Iosevka
- Last, I think I disabled some of the ligatures
Also I really really tried patching XD Font to include the Nerdfont (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts) icons. There are patching tools for it but ultimately I couldn't get them to work.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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