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Re:Show HN: Iosevka Open Source Programming Typeface by anon3_ on Sunday July 26, 2015 @06:15PM (#9952374)
Well done, thank you for this!

Sometimes all it takes it a new font to jog your creativity a bit.

What was your inspiration for this ?

Re:Show HN: Iosevka Open Source Programming Typeface by be5invis on Sunday July 26, 2015 @06:30PM (#9952422)
Mainly Pragmata Pro, and I brought some ideas form DIN and M+ 1m series. All glyphs are exactly 0.5em wide so they can be compatible with 中日韩文字 (CJK characters, where every character are excatly 1em wide).
Re:Show HN: Iosevka Open Source Programming Typeface by mahmoudimus on Sunday July 26, 2015 @07:16PM (#9952566)
Please excuse my ignorance, and please correct me so I may learn, as I have no idea about fonts except that I simply them in my editors :)

The inspiration of M+ 1m + Pragmata Pro is very interesting and make for a powerful font.

Do you anticipate further font development, driven by the same code-generated workflow, attempting to tackle modernization of something like the venerable Misc Fixed 13pt, which needs an update for modern screens and/or resolutions?

Then, there's the Apple Menlo/Monaco, Ubuntu Mono and derivatives, as well as Consolas and its derivatives which tend to focus on wider glyphs , as opposed to the narrowness and (longer?) line-heights of similar fonts to M+ 1m / Pragmata Pro? It would be interesting to see if newer fonts can evolve from this approach.

Thanks for a great project!

Re:Show HN: Iosevka Open Source Programming Typeface by be5invis on Sunday July 26, 2015 @07:28PM (#9952607)
My future work will be focused on spatial balance and glyph coverage. (I'd want to coverage ALL UNICODE POINTS of Latin/Greek/Cyrillic/IPA, thanks to the building script generating them will be much easier than using a conventional font editor: Just add a mark glyph and all combining glyphs using it will be automatically generated.)

Maybe I can make a library or toolchain after this font is almost completed, as a modernized METAFONT, which produces Opentype directly from your generation source code. And well, in that toolchain, i will not use PatEL since this language has not been documented yet.

Re:Show HN: Iosevka Open Source Programming Typeface by mahmoudimus on Sunday July 26, 2015 @09:33PM (#9952927)
That sounds like it would be a grand idea! Will be watching closely to see how it evolves. Thanks again.