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Digits should rather be monospaced in font files #2266

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azaz44 opened this issue Dec 30, 2022 · 5 comments
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Digits should rather be monospaced in font files #2266

azaz44 opened this issue Dec 30, 2022 · 5 comments
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azaz44 commented Dec 30, 2022

Ethos uses proportional (non-monospace) fonts, which is great.
However the weird thing is, digits also differ in width. See here:

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Which makes it super hard to make nice formatting with numbers. See here (double-colons not aligned):

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While this is used in some specific fonts, it is super rare. You only use it in some very specific, artistic fonts, for applications which have nothing to do with numbers. All typical fonts avoid having digits in different widths, because this causes a lot of trouble. See here:

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Life would be so much easier, if digits were all same width...

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azaz44 commented Dec 30, 2022

By looking at screenshots I made, I started to wonder if this is not a problem if a font itself, but if this is a drawing issue, or if font was processed / generated with some errors on the way. If you look at this image:

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It looks weird. It doesn't make any sense, that 1 is same width as 8, but 0 and 7 are much wider.

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It looks weird indeed, I will check it carefully

@bsongis-frsky bsongis-frsky self-assigned this Dec 31, 2022
@bsongis-frsky bsongis-frsky added this to the 1.4.6 milestone Dec 31, 2022
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@bsongis-frsky bsongis-frsky added the enhancement New feature or request label Jan 3, 2023
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In 1.4.6, all numbers will have the same width

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azaz44 commented Jan 4, 2023

Great to see this, thanks 👍

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