Hi Sander!

Thanks for the patches, but there are some problems.

Did I mix up the patches?  We discussed some of these issues, and I thought it was clear, but then maybe you sent me other patches in e-mail?

The glyphs for Sans seemed OK, and I went and committed them.
Unfortunately, shortly after, I realized these are just direct copies of the glyphs from the Serif face.

The hammer-and-sickle didn't really fit the mono style at all, to my eye... but then again it's just a scaled copy from Serif as well.  So this one won't be committed as-is.

As we discussed, outside of a few special cases, there isn't much point in having identical glyphs in the different faces (what's the point of having different faces at all?)

Hi,

Well OK.  But mind you I'm rather picky about letter forms.
The stroke width should be the same as that of similar characters.  Note that round letters in FreeSans has a large (maybe excessive) overshoot -- that should be carried through for consistency.

The thing is, it's hard for me to say what else you should do -- FontForge is really the right tool for making glyphs.  It checks many TrueType restrictions that have nothing to do with general geometric drawing -- that the glyph outlines are in the correct direction, that there aren't any open contours, that there aren't any overlaps, etc etc.

Also if you just made a diff, I would have all the glyph names and Unicode associations already.

But OK let's see what you can do!

PLease add the following missign glyphs to FreeSans:
  U+262D ☭ Hammer and sickle
  U+2639 ☹ White frowning face
  U+263A ☺ White smiling face

These glyphs already exist for FreeSerif and FreeMono from which the design can be used, albeit with some scaling to match the default sizes for symbols like these in FreeSans. See als U+2665 ♥
 Black heart suit for scaling since this is a comparable symbol that is available in FreeSerif, FreeSans and FreeMono. Hence all the needed components are already available.

Implementing this will allow users to access these symbols, for which compose key sequences exist promoting their usage, across all three main fonts. Eventhough completeness is not a priority for these fonts, is surely showcases the wide range in compose key overview.