Contributing?

[ghost]

I thought this font would be too small, but it is readable by its design, and I the more I use it, the more I like the choices made.
Perfectly aligned semigraphic characters, large dots, verify wide coverage... I love this font!

I enjoy making fonts (miniwi), and I may have some time to contribute some day. Some hints about the software or workflow you use?

[EDIT]: Ugly typos

[lucy]

I draw glyphs in gbdfed, and look at wikipedia's list of unicode characters, official unicode charts and several other fonts for reference.

Note that I don't really trust other people to draw glyphs how I want them. :)

[ghost]

Thank you for these tips!

I sure understand that you want your font to only include characters you like. :)

What I had in mind was extending the character set to be able to render this, but I never encountered a character that tewi-font could not render in real use (code, French, terminal interfaces) but CJK of course. Font fallback may be a better option for the rare languages or those with many glyphs.

What I can do is generating a .psf version as described in #7.

I will try to fit in either 128 or 256 characters slots:

1. ASCII: ALL
2. Language support:
   • Most common diacritics GOOD via default Uni2.512 set
   • Cyrillic GOOD
   • Greek PARTIAL
   • Hebrew NO
3. Semigraphics:
   • Box drawing 100% via equivalences
   • Blocks and gradients GOOD
   • Braille: NO the 256 braille characters would fill all the available slots
4. Symbols, featuring:
   • Math symbols PARTIAL
   • Icons-like characters PARTIAL
   • Pretty punctuation PARTIAL
   • Localized symbols like currencies GOOD

To save slots and support more characters, I will try to use equivalents.

[EDIT]: Made the font and updated the progress. 512/512 slots used! :)

tewi.psf

[EDIT 2] Updated the links twice.

[lucy]

That would be very nice. :)

[lucy]

I'll attempt to cover most of the non-alphabet glyphs on https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt eventually.

[ghost]

Wow, I see the commits counter rolling with new glyphs, thanks for this work. I'm just getting started on my side.