Hack/CHANGELOG.md

# Version 1.4

### Modified Glyphs

- Modified **uppercase Q** - added flared tail and modified tail angle
- Modified **uppercase F** - central arm lowered to fill open gap at the base
- Modified **lowercase a** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **lowercase b** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **lowercase d** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **lowercase g** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **lowercase i** - rounded corners of the dot, oriented dot position left of center relative to vertical stem
- Modified **lowercase i** - adjusted vertical position of the horizontal stem to x-height
- Modified **lowercase j** - rounded corners of the dot, oriented dot position left of center relative to vertical stem
- Modified **lowercase m** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **lowercase n** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **lowercase p** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **lowercase q** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **lowercase r** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **lowercase t** - added angle to left side of horizontal stem
- Modified **agrave** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **aacute** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **acircumflex** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **atilde** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **adieresis** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **aring** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **dcroat** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **gbreve** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **ntilde** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **ugrave** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **uacute** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **ucircumflex** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **udieresis** - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
- Modified **exclamdown** - rounded corners of the dot
- Modified **dieresis** - rounded corners
- Modified **questionmarkdown** - rounded corners of the dot
- Modified **Adieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **Edieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **Idieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **Odieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **Udieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **Ydieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **adieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **edieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **idieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **odieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **udieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **ydieresis** - rounded corners of dieresis component of glyph
- Modified **Idotaccent** - rounded corners of the dot
- Modified **dotaccent** - rounded corners of the dot
- Modified **ellipsis** - rounded corners of the dots
- Modified **periodcentered** - rounded corners of the dot


TODO: decrease terminal width, open angle BOLD, OBLIQUE, BOLDOBLIQUE

### Spacing Changes

- Modified **uppercase P** - increased right sidebearing to equal sidebearing of uppercase O glyph
- Modified **uppercase Z** - changed to right = left sidebearing (shifts orientation to left) for regular, bold, oblique sets
- Modified **uppercase Z** - reduced left sidebearing for bold oblique set, not necessary to make this equal as with above sets
- Modified **lowercase a** - reduced left sidebearing
- Modified **lowercase c** - reduced left sidebearing
- Modified **lowercase k** - reduced left sidebearing
- Modified **lowercase r** - reduced left sidebearing


# Version 1.3

### Modified Glyphs

- Curve adjustments & curve smoothing across all glyphs in the font collection
- hinting improvements

### Build Files

- New binary build system - should result in improved cross-platform compatibility for font binaries


# Version 1.2

### Modified Glyphs

- Modified **lowercase i** glyph. Removed serif and added curved tail
- Modified **hyphen** glyph. Widened
- Modified **zero** glyph. Adjusted alignment and shape of the oval fill
- Modified **left parenthesis** glyph. Increased right sidebearing length
- Modified **right parenthesis** glyph. Increased left sidebearing length

### Source

- Converted to UFO formatted source


# Version 1.0.1

- Modified the SIL license to permit dual licensing with the Bitstream Vera license.  This modification removed the stipulation that multiple licenses are not possible (preamble and section #5) and was intended to create the new Reserved Font Name Hack for this typeface modification and preserve the right (for myself and others) to define Reserved Font Names for all future fonts derived from this typeface.  There are no other modifications to either license under which this font is released.
- This release did not introduce changes to the glyphs included in the typeface


# Version 1.0.0
- Branched Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 1.10 release

## Changes

### New Glyphs

- New **exclamation point** glyph. Circular full stop point, tapered line, increased weight relative to other characters.
- New **asterisk** glyph.  Glyph shape from Source Code Pro.  Modified vertical position of the glyph to orient closer to the ascender.
- New **period** glyph.  Circular full stop point, modified from square glyph.
- New **comma** glyph.  Rounded comma shape from Source Code Pro, modified from square glyph.
- New **colon** glyph. Circular colon points, modified from square points.
- New **semicolon** glyph. Circular point and rounded comma shape from Source Code Pro, increased vertical spacing between the shapes


### Modified Glyphs
- Modified **percent** glyph.  Increased line length and added vertical line ends.
- Modified **zero** glyph.  Changed circular fill to oval fill.
- Modified **left square bracket** glyph. Increased height of the glyph.
- Modified **right square bracket** glyph. Increased height of the glyph.
- Modified **left curly bracket** glyph.  Modified vertical position, increased length of the horizontal stem, decreased left sidebearing
- Modified **right curly bracket** glyph. Modified vertical position, increased length of the horizontal stem, decreased right sidebearing
- Modified **question mark** glyph.  Changed square full stop point to circular full stop point.
- Modified **hyphen** glyph. Raised vertical alignment to center `->` character combinations.

### Font Styles
- **Regular** - includes all changes indicated above
- **Regular Oblique** - includes all changes indicated above
- **Bold** - includes all changes indicated above
- **Bold Oblique** - includes all changes indicated above