[why]
Improve legibility by having gaps between the gemstone surfaces.
[how]
There is no official monochrome icon. Found one free pixel one and
converted that to outline.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Improve legibility. The full icon is in fact a multicolor icon and the
design depends on being rendered in multiple different colors. That is
impossible for fonts. So we should probably use their flat (mono-color)
icon instead, which hints the different 'flaps' through gaps instead of
colors.
[note]
Both icons (the old and the new) contradict rules given by Firebase to
use the logo. But that can not be helped in a icon font, as we just have
one color of undetermined hue.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The Bazel icon might look nicer with gaps between the surfaces of the
cubes.
That is halfway in-line with the design idea of their logo.
See PR #1610 and link
https://blog.bazel.build/2017/07/05/new-logo-and-homepage.html
[how]
Based on the idea from Ezekiel Warren the Bazel icon gets gaps between
the surfaces of the cubes.
For this we use the skeleton svg icon of the Bazel website and construct
from scratch a new outline to represent the cube surfaces. The original
svg used lines with a width to create the image, which is not compatible
to fonts.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The previous change(s) removed executing the config.cfg **shell script**
which would pull in some environment variables like `post_process`.
With that change the appropriate option has to be given with the
commandline value of the new config.cfg **INI** file.
[how]
Remove defunct leftover code.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The logging to files does not work correctly for the messages given
while the options themselves are parsed.
[how]
As soon as we have enough information (after the first argument parsing)
we set the logger up. When processing the config file arguments we have
a full functioning logger now.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
We now have two places where we can detect if a config file is given.
This should be unified.
Also handling of missing (?) sections in the config file is not always
handled gracefully.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Some Caskaydia Cove glyphs that are used in ligatures (to create endless
arrows for example) show uneven line thickness on some platforms.
The reason is the not-matching hinting of glyphs that are places next
to each other and so minuscule differences are quite visible.
Note that the 'original' hinting is generated by VTT on the static
Cascadia Code instances, which upstream just have ttfautohint hints that
are different from the hints in the variable fonts and people complained
that the look is different.
[how]
Add a new field to the config.cfg file that holds regexes of glyph
names for glyphs that should be re-hinted by fontforge on patching time.
In principle we could also implement that as an additional pre-step that
needs to be manually done after running VTT on the static font files.
I'm not sure which is better.
Note that fontforge generates a lot of debug output because the hinting
is not ideal - the global tables are kept and probably less compatible
to fontforge's own hinting... But the results are good.
Fixes: #1291Fixes: #1609
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The config files are called `config.json` while the contents is
INI-like. The usual extension would be `.cfg`.
[how]
We use `.cfg` already for the shell variable configuration.
Combine both config file variants into one (real) cfg file, that is
directly read by the font-patcher and no shell variables files are used
anymore.
This needs some rewrite in gotta-patch-em to get the quoting right.
To make this simpler we remove the `--debug 1` option from the variable
and insert it directly (as it is applied always anyhow).
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
At the moment we have two different config files:
config.cfg:
Is read by gotta-patch-em and allows to specify some needed
commandline options for a font-patcher run
config.json:
Is read by font-patcher and can contain ligature table removal
instructions
It would be nice to combine/unify them.
[how]
Add the possibility to add commandline options in the config.cfg
file. Of course we need commandline options to specify the config
file first, so the options are parsed in two steps.
The config.file takes precedence (if possible) over directly specified
options.
This is how the new section in the config file can look like:
[Config]
commandline: --powerlineextra --mono
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Suggested now fonts/glyphs/set are usually closed to keep the Issue list
to real Issues and not suggestions. People should be able to further
discuss that addition in the (closed) Issue and it will be evaluated on
the next release.
Anyhow, closing the Issue automatically locks it after half a year and
no discussion is possible anymore. That was not intended.
[how]
Add new tag that keeps closed Issues unlocked and mark the addition
Issues as such.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The font list in this has not been updated for quite some time.
There are excellent and up to date Chocolatey packages already
out there created by @sumo300
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
It can be hard to find out which license a particular font is using.
Therefore we add a new field to the fonts.json with an SPDX license
identifier (if possible).
[how]
For fonts with a license that has no SPDX identifier we use a free
`LicenseRef-*` identifier, but that reference is not solved in the
fonts.json file.
[note]
Also correct some licensing info given in the license audit.
Related: #1578
Suggested-by: Jan Christian Gruenhage <jan.christian@gruenhage.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
I guess it would be good to explicitly state that PRs should be
discussed beforehand, as the disappointment can be big if it is not even
considered for pulling. Prior discussion can also clarify some technical
things that otherwise would need laborious changes afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The fi and fl ligs are formulated in the font to go through glyphs with
codepoint `F001` and `F002`. That is detected and overwriting that
glyphs with some (Font Awesome) icons is prevented.
The question is: What is more important, to have the fi ligature or to
have the fa-music and fa-magnifying_glass icons?
[how]
We sacrify here Font Nerdism over Icon Nerdism and remove the
ligatures before patching.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
We have two ranges of glyphs to examine:
1. `0x0000`-`0x017f` is the Latin Extended-A range
2. `0xfb00`-`0xfb06` are 'fi' and other ligatures
Both ranges are added to the essential glyphs (with their
sub-references, and with other glyphs that are referenced through
possub rules).
That is correct for range 1, but range 2 - the ligature glyphs - should
only become essential if they are indeed used for ligatures by some
rule.
For example with the UbuntuMono font, that does not have any fi ligature
natively, but it DOES have a filled `0xFB01` glyph, we would protect
that glyph and its subreferences (i.e. `0xF001`) - needlessly breaking
the Font Awesome icons in that font.
[how]
Add all glyphs of range 1 to the essential glyphs, but add glyphs of
range 2 only if they have a possub rule attached.
Reported-by: Eli Array Minkoff <eli@planetminkoff.com>
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The essential glyphs are partially based on which substitution rules
the font has.
And the config.json configuration is able to remove some substitution
rules.
So we must first possibly remove rules and then examine them, not the
other way around, because now we detect 'essential glyphs' for rules
that we later remove.
[how]
Correct order of operation.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The glyphs can look a bit small(er) when used unscaled, for example in a
Nerd Font Propo font. Note that some icons indeed got smaller, but in
general the generated font is a bit smaller than before.
Related: #1588
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
