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The implementation of the icons-only font in #84 is very useful, and I think it could be improved.
- Based on 3b5dff7, it appears the icons-only font is just a ttf file in
src/glyphs. Instead of just providing the ttf in the repo, could you somehow leverage the standard patcher and just provide an empty font as input? Or maybe you could add an option to the patcher like--no-input? I'm not sure of the best way to go about it since I'm not familiar with the code, but this way, the icons-only font won't get out of date and will keep up with all the other Nerd Fonts. Right now, I think the icons-only ttf is missing the Crystal icon added inoriginal-source.otfin 3bdc094, based on the fact that it was added 4 months ago and the ttf's are from 2 years ago. Scripting them like the other Nerd Fonts would eliminate this problem. Also, should you generate otf's instead of ttf's since they have more features? Since it's just icons, you get to choose, right? I guess you could even do both. - Generate proportional and monospaced variants as with standard Nerd Fonts, i.e. "Symbols Nerd Font" and "Symbols Nerd Font Mono". This would allow users to select the proportional font for use outside of monospaced contexts (terminal emulators) to get full-size icons. For example, in window manager status bars.
- Provide these two font variants in the releases instead of burying them in the repo for users to find ;D.
Thank you for your work on this excellent project!
OJFord, stellarhoof, felschr, maxbrunet and 0xNOYryanoasis and stellarhoof
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