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Selectable Diagonal vs. Vertical Vulgar Fractions. #2376

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jmcwilliams403 opened this issue Jun 14, 2024 · 2 comments
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Selectable Diagonal vs. Vertical Vulgar Fractions. #2376

jmcwilliams403 opened this issue Jun 14, 2024 · 2 comments

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@jmcwilliams403
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  • The requested variant shape does not go too far away from Iosevka's design.
  • The requested variant does not conflict with any characters in Unicode that Iosevka currently supports.
  • At least two monospace/programming fonts, created by different designers, supported the requested variant. Provide images below.

I really like the current vertical vulgar fractions, however many fonts use a diagonal/oblique slash which would match with % and directly imply the decomposition sequence with fraction slash (½1⁄2).

In the examples below, some towards the end use a broken bar to match their % variant, however I think for the sake of glyph count it would probably be sufficient to just focus on the continuous stroke forms for now.

%¼½¾

Fonts which use diagonal fractions:
Andale Mono:
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Anonymous Pro:
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Consolas:
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Menlo:
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Fira Mono:
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Liberation Mono:
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Monaco:
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Envy Code R:
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X Windows Fixed:
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Ubuntu Mono:
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Lucida Console:
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Jetbrains Mono:
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IBM Plex Mono:
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PT Mono:
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Recursive Mono:
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Courier New:
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Inconsolata:
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Fonts which use vertical fractions:
Pragmata Pro (btw I finally got my hands on a paid copy for €200):
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Input Mono:
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@berrymot
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(ooh input mono's fractions are really interesting)

@jmcwilliams403
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(ooh input mono's fractions are really interesting)

The kerning makes it give off a different impression but it's actually supposed to be both a broken bar and a horizontal bar, which is odd because its percent sign doesn't use a broken bar like some other examples here do.

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