mark2mark/gintronic

This is a public repository where users can open issues for the monospaced font Gintronic by Mark Frömberg.

Gintronic

This is a public repository where users can open issues for the monospaced font Gintronic by Mark Frömberg.

How to use

Installation

Mac

Normally you just copy the font file(s) into your System Fonts Folder /Library/Fonts/. It is possible to put subfolders into that folder, I often have a folder for each font family in there. After putting the fonts there, they are immediately available, but some apps need a restart.

You can also use a font manager like Font Book, but honestly, that is not necessary at all.

Issues, Questions, Discussions

• I am currently feeding the discussions board, which is the new place for everything that is not necessarily an issue.
• If you have any issues that are not covered by the issues in this repository, please open a new one.

OpenType Features

You can activate or deactivate several font features to your likings. A growing collection of how to do that in several IDEs can be found here

TODO

• Add documentation for OT Features. List of available features, how to use ...
  • Add here
  • Add to Specimen PDF

gintronic's Issues

Vertical align issue on Powerline font

Hi, Thanks for the great font 😄
I could see the vertical-aligning issue in the Kitty terminal and Sublime Text. I think It works very well in other IDE and Terminal. Could you please have a look at this issue? Also, Could you please support powerline font?

Vertical position of tilde

From a user:

"The tilde (~) character is often used as a pair with other characters
to form multiple operators in programming. For example, there's the
match operator (=~) in Ruby that does a regular expression match. Still
in Ruby, specifically in RubyGems, we have the pessismistic version
constraint operator/twiddle-wakka (~>).

In both operators, the tilde is just slightly higher. This is more
noticeable in the twiddle-wakka operator. Would it be possible to
vertically align the tilde character with the other characters? If it
can't be possible to do this as the default rendering, then maybe offer
it as an alternate glyph."

Angle brackets offset vertically on bbox site

Just an FYI I saw this when playing with your font on the bbox site. It happens with all font weights. However I do not see this issue when using (the trial version of) your font in my terminal. I get the same result in Firefox and Chrome.

Website problem

Hello!
The font's website is not working anymore.
https://markfromberg.com/projects/gintronic/

Can you look into it please?
Thank you for creating the font.

Consider ligature support

Lots of programming fonts support ligatures, something that wasn't a thing when Gintronic started. Today they improve readability a lot and sometimes help at saving screen width.

(image took from FiraCode repo ) There are more to be discussed but these are the minimum minimorum.
The above picture shows some important ligatures that one programming font should support for better coding experience.
As a workaround, you can add ligatures to the font from FiraCode(using https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer) which transfers some of the ligatures to Gintronic. The big issue is that they feel a little bit out of place and blurry sometimes!

Contextual alternative for 'x' causes visual inconsistency in hexadecimal numbers

Many languages use 0x prefix to express hexadecimal numbers; because both a letter and a number can follow after, it causes a bit of inconsistency. small example of this behaviour in Visual Studio

I have no idea how fonts work and quick googling didn't really help too much in figuring out how to change default font features on my OS (windows), but it would be lovely if this could somehow be changed.

Vertical Bar

From a user:

"I was wondering why modern fonts, even those intended for code, do not render the vertical bar | as broken in the middle, as in the Unicode character ¦. This is an obvious solution for differentiating the bar from 1 and I and l, and it has a history behind it in old computer fonts (particularly bitmap ones). I reckon it is not done anymore because Unicode went and made ¦ a separate character – a pretty useless one semantically, I might add. So, I would like to ask the designer of a major recent font design project for code:
Did you consider rendering the bar as broken at some point in the design process?
Was Unicode’s separation of these characters a main motivation for your decision not to?
Do you reckon that the function of differentiating the vertical bar is better served without doing this?
Do you have any more comments about this? …"

Tracking / Letter Spacing

Note on the spacing decissions

When I decided for the spacing initially, it snapped better to the pixel grid in some environments like the Mac Terminal with small font sizes (like 10~12), which Gintronic is designed to work in well. Different code editors seem to interpret font spacing slightly different. However, this seems a less relevant nowadays, which is why I also decided to make its spacing more common with other programming fonts.

How to get a narrower spaced Gintronic?

Since times, software and hardware have changed, I have an updated version with narrower letter spacing at hand. Please contact me with your invoice if you want to get it.

If you got Gintronic via bBox Type

The "original" Gintronic on bBox will not get this particular update, since it would break downwards compatibility with certain users. In case you bought it from there and want the update, please let me know here.

Small caps not working on Safari, working on Firefox

Tested on Safari 14.0.2 on macOS Big Sur 11.1 (i.e. latest releases of both)
And on the current Safari running on an up-to-date iPad.
Using the woff files.
With font-variant: small-caps; set in the CSS.
The numbers and capitals are rendering properly, the small caps are smaller than they should in proportion.
Looking fine on FireFox.

Make lining figures the default

For version 2.0