Re: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Sans Mono ExtraLight Condensed

[Giacomo T. <gi...@te...>]

Hi Denis, thanks for your reply!

I've played a bit with FontForge and I supposed that the solution was
something related to either Change Weight or Change Glyphs. In particular
with Change Gliphs I managed to get something... but still not what I
want...

Do you think that this approach lead to a dead end?

Also, looking for a extrapolation tutorial "for dummy", I've found
Metapolator: do you think it might help?

I'm pretty new to font design tools and terminology, thus please excuse me
for my ignorance...


Giacomo


2016-06-19 15:59 GMT+02:00 Denis Jacquerye <mo...@gm...>:

> Hi Giacomo,
>
> Generating a DejaVu Mono ExtraLight from other weights is possible through
> extrapolation.
> However there are two issues with doing this:
> 1. DejaVu Mono Regular and DejaVu Mono Bold are currently not compatible
> (meaning a glyph in one weight is composed of a different number of points
> in another weight), so interpolation and extrapolation will not work for
> many glyphs.
> 2. Extrapolation is trickier than interpolation and would probably require
> many adjustments, this is because extrapolation might generated undesired
> distortions.
>
> That being said, the various weights could be modified to be compatible
> for interpolation and an extrapolated DejaVu Mono Light could be manually
> fixed and tweaked. If extrapolation give a general good result another
> option is also to only have light glyphs for the problematic glyphs.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 at 11:15 Giacomo Tesio <gi...@te...> wrote:
>
>> Hello DejaVu team, and thanks for your hard work on this wonderful font.
>>
>> I'm trying to customize DejaVu Sans Mono to meet a few requirements for a
>> programming font, that no of the alternatives I've tried seem to satisfy.
>>
>> Indeed I need a font that
>>
>>    - is easy to read, even for source code (like DejaVu Sans Mono)
>>    - has a good support for unicode
>>    - is monospaced so that it's easy to do rectangular selections of
>>    text (like DejaVu Sans Mono)
>>    - is light weighted (like DejaVu Sans ExtraLight)
>>    - is narrow to allow more text per line (like DejaVu Sans Condensed)
>>
>> To summarize what I want is a sort of "DejaVu Sans Mono ExtraLight
>> Condensed".
>>
>> Following the steps described at
>> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/d34c76b2564fad6d216c I managed to
>> produce a condensed variant of DejaVu Sans Mono.
>> Also I've read on the archive of this mailing list (
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/dejavu/mailman/message/8696989/ )
>> <https://sourceforge.net/p/dejavu/mailman/message/8697283/> that it is
>> possible to generate the ExtraLight variant programmatically from an
>> existing .sfd, but how?
>>
>>
>> Giacomo
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