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Wow, I didn't really expect to see my project there this morning! I'm normally a simple lurker, but I wanted to say thanks for the kind words about the project.

I know some people might want to modify or tweak the project to their liking. The project is meant to provide a Python sandbox more than just font files, so feel free to fork it or submit a PR if you feel like some glyphs need tweaking! You don't need any external tools to draw/visualize the glyphs.

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The font looks great and has its own character, kudos!

However, it doesn't support all the characters I need, so I can't use it as a terminal font. However, I starred your repo, and will watch it.

Thanks again for the effort, it looks really nice.

If you're talking about powerline/nerd symbols, have you tried patching it yourself? I did and it worked.

Unfortunately no, ligatures/nerd fonts/powerline is not in my concerns list. It doesn't support all the characters all my alphabet. This is the showstopper.

Normally, I use Berkeley, but I have a couple of terminal profiles with different fonts which I use if I open 5+ terminals sometimes, to group things. I wondered whether I can use this one of the alternate fonts when things get complicated and crowded.

Just for clarity, the characters I need are æ/ø/å, and this is only missing the å. A little funny, given the font's called Nordwand :D

Looks really nice though. :)

For me it's missing ğ, Ğ, ş, Ş, ı and İ. Being a Turkish is interesting sometimes. :)

Aren't those also used in Polish names or similar ? Always found the regional variation and whatnot super interesting

Some languages have interesting variations on S, C, O and Z (there might be more, I'm not a keen linguist). However, the accents are not always the same. I also believe that nobody has "ğ/Ğ", and I'm pretty sure that nobody has "ı/İ" pair.

The second one wreaks havoc on many, many systems. e.g.: It was breaking Kodi completely (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/19883#issuecomment-86833...), and I have personally wrapped many software packages with locale change scripts to make them run.

For more information: https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-turkey/

Polish diacritics are: ą ć ę ł ń ó ś ź ż (uppercase: Ą Ć Ę Ł Ń Ó Ś Ź Ż). They are all separate letters.

By the way, many people think that the Polish alphabet [1] is just English with diacritics, but in reality neither q, nor v, nor x are part of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_alphabet

It looks nice. The rounded square, boxy shape has a 70s feel to it. The 'm' bugs me a bit, and the <>, but I'm going to use it in my IDE for a while.

Edit: I'm quite fond of the 'k'.

The `m` is wonderful!

Agreed. I think it brings the font so much more character

Yea the m is quite off, I know nothing about fonts but the middle tinge is too long, or it’s too symmetric, the right corner is too sharp or something. And it is repeated so much in the example text that works against it.

the k is amazing.

There seems to be an alternative for it: https://github.com/tywr/Nordwand-Mono/blob/main/doc/alternat...

Seeing as your font is OFL, you might like to submit it to Google Fonts. That would make it so much easier for devs to include on their webpages and other media.

Google Fonts is no longer best practice due to worse performance and privacy (and the questionable ethics of giving stuff to Google for free) compared to self-hosted fonts. So, OP should take this suggestion with a grain of salt.

You don’t need to use google fonts as a CDN, but I think a lot of people use google fonts to look for fonts they then download and self-host.

It is a great place to find fonts. I download them and serve them from our own platform, to avoid precisely the privacy issues.

Being in the Google Fonts catalog doesn't mean you have to load it from their CDN. Plenty of people find a font there, download the files and self-host them, and fontsource packages the whole catalog for npm.

No variable font? :(

I am using Victor Mono with some features flipped https://github.com/rofrol/codevka/blob/main/VictorMono-Varia...

https://imgur.com/a/6Unasjq

More variable fonts:

https://fonts.google.com/?categoryFilters=Technology:%2FTech...

You can test variable fonts here:

- https://fontgauntlet.com/ - https://fontdrop.info/

My ghostty config https://github.com/rofrol/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/ghost...

Hey, how did you designed the typeface using Python? Asking ad a designer who thought Python is a programming language…

When you design a glyph inside any vector graphics software, you are essentially asking a library to execute some commands (eg. place a point there, then place the bézier curve handles there and go to next point etc.). Instead of relying on a software with a UI, I directly called the underlying commands from python for every glyph.

Thanks - got this part but did you actually design all letters one by one, or did you just feed it with all the fonts you mentioned as inspiration and YOLO? Can’t imagine how to give feedback to the curves when they live in the code and are not visualised…

If the designed used an LLM, it’s easy to say “no, make the dot on the i slightly elliptical, and round the bottom left corner of the B a tiny bit more”, etc.

I’m doing lots of CAD work this way, where previously I’d be drawing in rhino but not operating from durable product briefs.

With this project I have an easy way to visualize individual glyphs on which I'm working. My workflow was to simply edit the glyph code itself, tweaking the formulas or functions and instantly plot it to see how it would look like.

Im going to give this a go. Im using berkeley mono, so this is up my alley. What colorscheme are you using in the examples? I tend to find that font + colorscheme goes hand in hand.

What a beautiful font! Thanks so much for open-sourcing it!

I mean, I opened up the github, and wow, I don't know what it is, but visually, just seeing the GitHub, I can't remember the last time I opened up a font from HN (and they get posted often enough) that really surprised me how nice it looked. There's something really nice about it.

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