Technicality
a year ago
- #font-design
- #terminal-fonts
- #open-source
- Technicality is a personal monospaced terminal font with a variable-width version for window titles.
- The font is unfinished, with ad-hoc character additions based on personal usage, leading to potential missing characters for others.
- Issues include weird side bearings in the variable-pitch font, missing overshoots, and almost no hinting, affecting usability at different pixel sizes.
- Available downloads include OpenType, TrueType, and WOFF formats, with source code in a git repository.
- Future improvements desired include better hinting, an italic face, and compatibility with TeX/LaTeX for typesetting equations.
- The font's design is inspired by 'Tektite', a bitmap font from Slackware's kbd package, which itself was derived from Adobe's Tekton, inspired by Frank Ching's handwriting.
- Technicality represents a third-order derivative of Frank Ching's handwriting, with modifications for personal preference and terminal use.