fabrizioschiavi/pragmatapro

Any plans for adding texture healing support?

mrboen94 opened this issue · 9 comments

mrboen94 commented

Love the font, but I would love the option to enable texture healing for the m and i separately.

https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/blob/main/docs/Texture%20Healing.md

I have no idea how much work this is to implement in a font, but I would love for this to be optionally added to the font, as it doesn't fit everywhere.

fabrizioschiavi commented

Yes, absolutely. This solution is really genial and must be included in the next realease. Thanks!

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fabrizioschiavi commented

I'm working almost full time to this improvement, what do you think of the result?

PragmataPro_texture_healing

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pkazmier commented

Looking good. I am curious how a word such as “minimum” renders. Would it contain two different sized m’s? Big and small in same word?

Edit: I missed that you had “mime” in your sample, which does contain two different sized m’s. Now that I see it, I’m not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, the spacing is better, but on the other hand, it’s also jarring to my eye to see different letterforms for same letter in the same word. It’s a neat concept nonetheless!

fabrizioschiavi commented

I completely agree with you, it's a delicate balance to maintain, but it undeniably works! I rely on it daily, and I can confidently affirm that this solution has significantly enhanced readability.

At its minimum size, some imbalance becomes noticeable when magnified, yet at its practical working size, everything looks excellent.

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pkazmier commented

Very interesting. It's great hearing your feedback on how it has greatly enhanced readability. I'm looking forward to the 0.831 release.

As one without any knowledge of font design, I'm curious how do you decide which "m" to make wider in a word such as "mime". In your sample, it was the second one, why not the first? Or why not both? Would both require a 3rd version of "i" that has even smaller serifs? Or is it a practical limit to the number of combinations you'd have to create.

Thank you for your continued work on this magnificent font. It has been one of my best purchases!

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fabrizioschiavi commented

Thanks @pkazmier for your appreaciations and for bringing the mime issue to my attention: the ms near i must have the same width

Teggy commented

Good grief, Fabrizio. This looks awesome! Please keep up the good work! 👍🏼

fabrizioschiavi commented

Thank you @Teggy !