Hack/CHANGELOG.md
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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 t - added angle to left side of horizontal stem
  • Modified lowercase r - reduced left sidebearing to better center the glyph
  • 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 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

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 k - reduced left sidebearing
  • Modified lowercase c - 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