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sr #110052: FreeMono for HiDPI Screens

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Thu 10 Oct 2019 02:59:31 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  Wont Do
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Open
Operating System:  GNU/Linux
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Sat 12 Oct 2019 08:53:18 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Glad you like the font!

I appreciate that on some devices, FreeMono might be too thin.  But this is why we have different fonts.

The main effort of this project is to produce an adequate family of fonts that supports as many human languages as possible.

As to tailoring the weight of the fonts for different devices:    Already there are 12 faces, you are proposing to add another 2 (assuming the medium weight would also get an oblique version).  There are nearly 2500 characters in MonoBoldOblique alone, nearly 6800 in Mono Normal.  Many of these would require manual adjustment if the weight would change.

This would be a bigger step than you imagine, and we just don't have the resources, and it isn't toward our main goal.

That said, it's not a bad idea. 

Sure, somebody could make another free software project, restraicted perhaps to Western alphabets, based on FreeMono. .  They could do whatever they like there!  And if all parties agree, the projects could be merged sometime in the future.

Thanks!

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Thu 10 Oct 2019 02:59:31 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,
I would like to use FreeMono for everything, especially emacs! The problem is on my ThinkPad X390 the font shows extremely thin below 14 pt. Using the bold is not a good solution because there is no syntax variation. I think a FreeMono (Medium) would fix this issue.


MCP

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file #47639:  dejavumono_11pt_emacs.png added by None (43KiB - image/png - Here is a comparison between FreeMono (Regular) and Dejavu Mono Book at 11 pt font in emacs. )
file #47638:  freemono_11pt_emacs.png added by None (40KiB - image/png - Here is a comparison between FreeMono (Regular) and Dejavu Mono Book at 11 pt font in emacs. )

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2019-10-12 Stevan_White Severity3 - Normal 1 - Wish
        StatusNone Wont Do
        Assigned toNone Stevan_White
    2019-10-10 None Attached File- Added dejavumono_11pt_emacs.png, #47639
    2019-10-10 None Attached File- Added freemono_11pt_emacs.png, #47638

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