| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Provide a hand-edited good/10x20.sfd, generated using fontforge from
bad/6x13.sfd, which adjusts more than just ` '.
Specifically: provide a single new hand-drawn shape for the comma and
both single quotes; increase the weight of the full stop; adjust the
colon and semicolon to match.
Justifications for the changes:
- Our primary goal is matched quotes, so at least the single quote
(which in post-2000 10x20 is vertical) needs changing.
- The quote glyphs in the pre-2000 10x20 are rather poor, when used
in a matched pair. They are rather more slanted and rather less
tall than seems usual for quotes. Using these for quotes results
in an (IMO) odd appearance for quoted strings.
- 10x20 is very like 6x13 in overall style but pre-2000 6x13 quotes
have a rather different (and IMO better) look.
- The comma should have the same shape as the quotes, like in 6x13.
But in pre-2000 10x20, the comma and the single quotes have
different shapes.
- The pre-2000 comma is very similar to the full stop. This makes
them hard to distinguish at high DPI.
- The colon and semicolon should contain exactly a full stop and a
comma; but the pre-2000 colon and semicolon's lower marks are
raised compared to the corresponding standalone mark. Again, this
is not much like 6x13.
- The weight of the pre-2000 10x20 full stop and colon are anomalous:
in general the weight of 10x20 is similar to that of 6x13 scaled up
(eg, the 10x20 A has 54 pixels out of 200, 27%, compared to the
6x13 A which has 20 pixels out of 78, 26%). The 6x13 stop is 5
pixels (6.4%) but the pre-2000 10x20 stop is 6 pixels (3.0%). We
compromise by increasing it to 9 pixels (4.5%).
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
|
