delphinus/homebrew-sfmono-square

Possible to build different weights

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nightlyrelease commented

Hi, I wanted to know if it was possible to build the fonts to create different weights and italic variants? Like medium and medium italic?

delphinus commented

Currently, no. We need SF Mono and Migu 1M to build this fonts, and SF Mono has 9 weights from Light to Heavy, but Migu 1M has only 2: Regular and Bold.

I have 2 plans to realize your request:

  1. Combine 9 wights SF Mono with Migu 1M Regular/Bold.
    • This will look odd with thin 1-byte characters (SF Mono Light) with thicker 2-byte characters (Migu 1M Regular), for example.
  2. Combine 9 wights SF Mono with Mplus 1 Code that has 7 weights.
    • Migu 1M is created by customizing Mplus 1. Some glyphs will be changed and missing, but you can be satisfied in almost situations.

Ideally, we should supply new fonts with the “2.” plan, named “SF Mono Square Code”, for example.

nightlyrelease commented

Appreciate the response, thank you! One other question, and please forgive my ignorance as I'm not that familiar. Is it possible to build SFMono Square from source rather than installing it from Homebrew?