[why]
The outlines in Terminus 4.49.2 are rather weird. Autoconverted but not
too nice.
[how]
Update to 4.49.3 as tis has much better outlines.
Fixes: #1329
Suggested-by: Wiesław Herr @herself
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
SC2059 (info): Don't use variables in the printf format string. Use printf '..%s..' "$foo".
Which is hard(er) because the sequences are not interpreted unless they
are in the format string.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Very slender and tall icons will be scaled huge compared to their fatter
neighbors. This happens for example to the chess pieces (E25F ff) or
text style icons like italic (EB0D).
[how]
When a monospaced font is created use a slightly less tall cell height
for all icons (except icons that have to match the actual line height).
This can be prevented by the new scale control character `^` that
symbolizes maximized vertical size (height) within the real cell.
The smaller cell (now called icon cell) is less tall than the line
height, but higher than the cap height of the font; to prevent people
complaining that the icons shrunk too much.
It is about 1/3 higher than the cap height compared to the line height.
This is NOT applied to the other Nerd Fonts fonts variants (i.e. Regular
and Propo) because all icons are generally a bit bigger than the cap
height (no scaling down to fit into one advance width) and as the
scaling is far less pronounced the slender-and-tall icons scale
comparably and do not look out off place there.
Suggested-by: Aaron Bell @aaronbell
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
A more conceise version of the Powerline test, designed to show
the dreaded 'faint vertical lines' phenomenon from LCD antialiasing
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
For new fonts we do not create one subdirectory for each font file anymore.
The (historic) reason were the many variants that each font file had been
patched with. Nowadays we just have 3 variants for each font file.
And anyhow this font is release archive released only.
[how]
Simplify update script and move font files.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The fontconfig is autogenerated by the release process with the
bin/scripts/generate-fontconfig.sh script. The reason is that its
contents should match the released fonts (i.e. the latest release).
Also:
Upstream changed the name grouping a bit, so the superfluous "Bold"
family has been dropped (and does not need an entry anymore).
[how]
Revert the (manual) change and wait for the release process to
update the fontconfig.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
We still fight with the faint lines on the big side of the powerline
glyphs. They come from the LCD antialiasing mode that has problems with
the borders.
Other fonts use far more overlap. We use only a modest amount of overlap
(1% of the width).
[how]
As the other fonts do, increase the overlap (to 6% now).
Add full-hight 'landing platforms' on the outsides of the glyphs,
which are 7% wide.
Related: a8b9e1da06
Related: #1245Fixes: #1547
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The glyph is extremely complex with very thin open spaces and bridges.
Obviously a conversion from some colored icon that has not been looked
at too hard.
[how]
Remove all the small crevices, smoothen the surface carefully and make
too thin strokes a bit wider.
We still keep the Devicons goal "very crisp icons" so that no rounding
of the paths and reduction of points is used.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
