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Variants for i and l with long tails #1692

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mybearworld opened this issue Apr 26, 2023 · 6 comments
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Variants for i and l with long tails #1692

mybearworld opened this issue Apr 26, 2023 · 6 comments

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@mybearworld
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mybearworld commented Apr 26, 2023

  • The requested variant shape does not go too far away from Iosevka's design.
  • The requested variant does not conflict with any characters in Unicode that Iosevka currently supports.
  • At least two monospace/programming fonts, created by different designers, supported the requested variant. Provide images below.

You can see in fontview that the tailed variation of i has a bit of margin on the left (default settings except for i and l being tailed):
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The same problem applies to l, but I can't show that because in fontview, it's at the beginning of a word, and I can't use the font anywhere else because I can't figure out how to install it locally.

So, my suggestion is to have a variation of the tail variation of these letters where the tail is a bit longer, so that it doesn't have this awkward margin.


I could only find one font that does this, admittedly, but it seems a logical thing for any font using tailed i and l, which I also couldn't really find any of (tailed-serif is very widely used instead).

Nova Mono using this variation of i and l

@jmcwilliams403
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Full tails are used under italics when the font uses tails in that mode. Maybe it wouldn't be too hard to make these selectable in an upright mode?

@monicfenga
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Looks like a flipped capital J 🤣

@mybearworld
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Looks like a flipped capital J 🤣

Because it is.

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mybearworld commented Aug 15, 2023

no, bump

@be5invis be5invis removed the stale label Aug 15, 2023
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Logo121 commented Aug 15, 2023

I guess it can be seen as parity with the asymmetric t variants (or even the hooked one per the given example)?
It is already possible in some other variants:
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