Hack/CHANGELOG.md

Version 2.0

TODO:

• all new chars boldoblique set
• adjust the width terminals/angle on the new glyphs
• harmonize curves of the new glyphs
• adjust dots to curved dots for new glyphs
• add new lowercase i glyphs
• adjust t horizontal stem so that it has an angle
• fix punctuation

New Glyphs

• New glyphs for Revised Western European (ISO-8859-15, Latin-9) character set (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New glyphs for Central European (ISO-8859-2, Latin-2) character set (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New glyphs for South European (ISO-8859-3, Latin-3) character set (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New glyphs for Vietnamese character set (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New glyphs for Pan African Latin character set (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New glyphs for Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5) character set (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New glyphs for Greek (ISO-8859-7) character set (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New glyphs for Arabic (ISO-8859-6) character set (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New glyphs for Armenian character set (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New glyphs for Georgian character set (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New punctuation glyphs (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New number glyphs
• New symbol glyphs
• New Powerline glyphs
• New dotlessi
• New iacute
• New icircumflex
• New idieresis
• New igrave
• New imacron
• New iogonek
• New itilde
• New uppercase upsilon
• New uni0069
• New uni0457
• New uni0458

Modified Glyphs

Latin Character Set

• 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, decreased width of horizontal stem
• 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 lowercase y - modified curves
• Modified Abreve - modified curves
• Modified Aogonek - modified curve, decreased the width of the tail to meet typeface metrics
• Modified Eogonek - modified tail curve
• Modified Iogonek - modified tail curve
• Modified Itilde - modified tilde curve
• Modified Ohorn - modified horn curve
• Modified Oslash - modified curves
• Modified Oslashacute - modified curves
• Modified Otilde - modified tilde curve
• Modified Racute - modified bowl and leg curves
• Modified Rcaron - modiifed bowl and leg curves
• Modified Rcommaaccent - modified bowl and leg curves
• Modified Scommaaccent - modified curves
• Modified Tcommaaccent - modified comma accent curves
• Modified Ucircumflex - modified curves
• Modified Udieresis - modified curves
• Modified Ugrave - modified curves
• Modified Uhorn - modified curves
• Modified Uhungarumlaut - modified curves
• Modified Umacron - modified curves
• Modified Uogonek - modified curves
• Modified Uring - modified curves
• Modified Utilde - modified curves
• Modified agrave - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified aacute - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified abreve - decreased width of upper terminal to create an angled stem
• 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 amacron - decreased width of upper terminal to create an angled stem
• Modified aring - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
• Modified dcroat - decreased width of terminal, opened angle
• Modified dcaron - decreased width of lower terminal to create angled stem
• Modified ecaron - modified curves
• Modified ecircumflex - modified curves
• Modified edieresis - modified curves
• Modified egrave - modified curves
• Modified emacron - modified curves
• Modified eogonek - modified curves
• Modified gbreve - modified curves of bowl and tail
• Modified gcaron - modified curves of bowl and tail, decreased width of upper terminal to create angled stem
• Modified gcommaaccent - modified curves of bowl and tail, decreased width of upper terminal to create angled stem
• Modified gdotaccent - modified curves of bowl and tail, decreased width of upper terminal to create angled stem
• Modified hbar - adjusted curves
• Modified dotlessi - decreased width of horizontal stem
• Modified iacute - decreased width of horizontal stem
• Modified icircumflex - decreased width of horizontal stem
• Modified idieresis - decreased width of horitontal stem
• Modified igrave - decreased width of horizontal stem
• Modified imacron - decreased width of horizontal stem
• Modified iogonek - decreased width of horizontal stem
• Modified itilde -decreased width of horizontal stem
• Modified nacute - adjusted curves
• Modified ncaron - adjusted curves
• Modified ncommaaccent - adjusted curves
• Modified eng - adjusted curves, decreased the upper terminal width to create an angled stem
• Modified nacute - decreased width of upper terminal to create angled stem
• Modified ncaron - decreased width of upper terminal to create angled stem
• Modified ncommaaccent - decreased width of upper terminal to create angled stem
• Modified ntilde - adjusted curves
• Modified ohorn - adjusted curves
• Modified ohungarumlaut - adjusted curves
• Modified omacron - adjusted curves
• Modified oslash - adjusted curves
• Modified oslashacute - adjusted curves
• Modified otilde - adjusted curves
• Modified racute - adjusted curves, decreased width of upper terminal to create angled stem
• Modified rcaron - adjusted curves, decreased width of upper terminal to create angled stem
• Modified rcommaaccent - adjusted curves, decreased width of upper terminal to create angled stem
• Modified sacute - adjusted curves
• Modified scedila - adjusted curves
• Modified scommaaccent - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase t - decreased length of the left terminal to angle the horizontal stem
• Modified tbar - decreased length of the left terminal to angle the horizontal stem
• Modified tcaron - decreased length of the left terminal to angle the horizontal stem
• Modified tcommaaccent - adjusted curves, decreased length of the left terminal to angle the horizontal stem
• Modified uhorn - adjusted curves, decreased width of lower terminal to create angled stem
• Modified uhungarumlaut - adjusted curves, decreased width of lower terminal to create angled stem
• Modified umacron - adjusted curves, decreased width of lower terminal to create angled stem
• Modified uogonek - adjusted curves, decreased width of lower terminal to create angled stem
• Modified uring - adjusted curves, decreased width of lower terminal to create angled stem
• Modified utilde - adjusted curves, decreased width of lower terminal to create angled stem
• Modified yacute - adjusted curves
• Modified ycircumflex - adjusted curves
• Modified ydieresis - adjusted curves
• Modified ygrave - adjusted curves
• Modified zdotaccent - rounded corners of dot
• Modified gbreve - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified ntilde - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified ugrave - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified uacute - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified ucircumflex - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified udieresis - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified exclamdown - rounded corners of the dot
• Modified dieresis - rounded corners
• Modified questionmarkdown - rounded corners of the dot
• Modified ordfeminine - decreased width of lower terminal on the a character to create angled stem
• 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

Greek Character Set

• Modified upsilondieresistonos - adjusted vertical position to properly position on the baseline
• Modified iotadieresistonos - adjusted vertical position to properly position on the baseline
• Modified eth - altered curve of the neck
• Modified uppercase eta - modified the curves
• Modified uppercase theta - modified the curves
• Modified uppercase omicron - modified the curves
• Modified uppercase rho - modified the curves
• Modified uppercase psi - modified the curves
• Modified uppercase upsilon - new glyph style (change from Latin Y shape)
• Modified uppercase omega - modified the curves
• Modified uppercase alphatonos - adjusted right and left sidebearings, corrected position of the tonos symbol
• Modified uppercase epsilontonos - adjusted right and left sidebearings, corrected position of the tonos symbol
• Modified uppercase etatonos - adjusted right and left sidebearings, corrected position of the tonos symbol
• Modified uppercase iotatonos - adjusted right and left sidebearings, corrected position of the tonos symbol
• Modified uppercase omicrontonos - adjusted right and left sidebearings, corrected position of the tonos symbol
• Modified uppercase upsilontonos - adjusted right and left sidebearings, corrected position of the tonos symbol
• Modified uppercase omegatonos - adjusted right and left sidebearings, corrected position of the tonos symbol
• Modified uppercase iotadieresis - rounded the dieresis points
• Modified uppercase upsilondieresis - new upsilon shape, rounded the dieresis points
• Modified lowercase alpha - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase beta - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase gamma - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase delta - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase epsilon - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase zeta - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase eta - decreased width of the top terminal to create angled stem, adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase theta - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase iota - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase lambda - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase mu - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase nu - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase xi - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase omicron - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase pi - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase rho - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase sigmafinal - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase sigma - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase tau - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase upsilon - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase phi - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase chi - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase psi - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase omega - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase iotatonos - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase iotadieresis - rounded points of the dieresis, adjusted curves
• Modified iotadieresistonos - rounded corners of points of dieresis mark, appropriately positioned tonos mark, adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase upsilontonos - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase upsilondieresis - rounded points of dieresis mark, adjusted curves
• Modified upsilondieresistonos - rounded corners of points of dieresis mark, appropriately positioned tonos mark, adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase omicrontonos - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase omegatonos - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase alphatonos - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase epsilontonos - adjusted curves
• Modified lowercase etatonos - decreased width of top terminal to create angled stem, adjusted curves

Cyrillic Character Set

• Modified curves in uni0411, uni0412, uni0401, uni0417, uni041B, uni041E, uni0420, uni0421, uni0423, uni040E, uni0424, uni0427, uni042F, uni042C, uni042A, uni042B, uni0409, uni040A, uni0405, uni0404, uni042D, uni0408, uni040B, uni042E, uni0402, uni0462, uni0472, uni0494, uni0498, uni04AA, uni04BA, uni04CB, uni04D0, uni04D2, uni04D6, uni04D8, uni04DA, uni04DC, uni04DE, uni04E0, uni04E4, uni04E6, uni04E8, uni04EA, uni04EC, uni04EE, uni04F0, uni04F2, uni04F4, uni04F8, uni0510, uni051A, uni0430, uni0431, uni0432, uni0434, uni0435, uni0450, uni0451, uni0437, uni0439, uni043B, uni043E, uni0440, uni0441, uni0443, uni045E, uni0444, uni0447, uni044F, uni044C, uni044A, uni044B, uni0459, uni045A, uni0455, uni0454, uni044D, uni0456, uni0457, uni0458, uni045B, uni044E, uni0452, uni0463, uni0473, uni0499, uni04AB, uni04BB, uni04CC, uni04D1, uni04D3, uni04D7, uni04D9, uni04DB, uni04DD, uni04DF, uni04E1, uni04E5, uni04E7, uni04E9, uni04EB, uni04ED, uni04EF, uni04F1, uni04F3, uni04F5, uni04F9, uni0511, uni051B, uni04D5
• Rounded corners of points of dieresis marks in uni0401, uni0407, uni04D2, uni04DA, uni04DC, uni04DE, uni04E4, uni04E6, uni04EA, uni04EC, uni04F0, uni04F4, uni04F8, uni0451, uni0457, uni04D3, uni04DB, uni04DD, uni04DF, uni04E5, uni04E7, uni04EB, uni04ED, uni04F1, uni04F5, uni04F9
• Rounded corners of dots in uni0456, uni0458
• Modified lowercase i glyphs (uni0456, uni0457) so that they are consistent with the shape of the Hack Latin lowercase i
• Modified uni0430 - decreased width of lower terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0440 - decreased width of upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni04D1 - decreased width of lower terminal to create angle
• Modified uni04D3 - decreased width of lower terminal to create angle
• Modified uni051B - decreased width of upper terminal to create angle

Armenian Character Set

• Modified curves in uni0531, uni0532, uni0533, uni0534, uni0535, uni0536, uni0538, uni0539, uni053A, uni053B, uni053D, uni053E, uni053F, uni0540, uni0541, uni0542, uni0543, uni0544, uni0545, uni0546, uni0547, uni0548, uni0549, uni054A, uni054B, uni054C, uni054D, uni054E, uni054F, uni0550, uni0551, uni0553, uni0554, uni0555, uni0556, uni0561, uni0562, uni0563, uni0564, uni0565, uni0566, uni0568, uni0569, uni056A, uni056B, uni056D, uni056E, uni056F, uni0570, uni0571, uni0572, uni0573, uni0574, uni0575, uni0576, uni0577, uni0578, uni0579, uni057A, uni057B, uni057C, uni057D, uni057E, uni057F, uni0580, uni0581, uni0583, uni0584, uni0585, uni0586, uni0587
• Modified uni0563 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0564 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0566 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0568 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0569 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0572 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0573 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0574 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0576 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0578 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni057C - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni057D - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0580 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0581 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle
• Modified uni0584 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create angle

Georgian Character Set

• Modified curves in uni10D0, uni10D1, uni10D2, uni10D3, uni10D4, uni10D5, uni10D6, uni10D7, uni10D8, uni10D9, uni10DA, uni10DB, uni10DC, uni10DD, uni10DE, uni10DF, uni10E0, uni10E1, uni10E2, uni10E3, uni10E4, uni10E5, uni10E6, uni10E7, uni10E8, uni10E9, uni10EA, uni10EB, uni10EC, uni10ED, uni10EE, uni10EF, uni10F0, uni10F1, uni10F2, uni10F3, uni10F4, uni10F5, uni10F6, uni10F7, uni10F8, uni10F9, uni10FA, uni10FC, uni055C, uni055E
• Rounded corners of points in uni10FB, uni0589

Punctuation Character Set

• Modified curves in uni2047, questiondown, uni203D, uni203F, uni2048, uni2049, uni204B, uni2E18, uni2E1F, uni2E2E, uni2E18.case, questiondown.case, uni208E, uni207E, uni2768, uni2769, uni276B, uni27C5, uni27C6, uni2987, uni2988, uni055C, uni055E, uni061F, H18533, circle, uni25EF, uni25D0, uni25D1, uni25D2, uni25D3, uni25D6, uni25D7, uni25D4, uni25D5, uni25F4, uni25F5, uni25F6, uni25F7, uni25CD, uni25C9, uni25CE, openbullet, invbullet, invcircle, uni25DA, uni25DB, uni25E0, uni25E1, uni25DC, uni25DD, uni25DE, uni25DF, ampersand, copyright, registered, section, degree
• Modified dong - decreased width of the lower terminal to create an angled stem
• Modified uni20A5 - decreased width of the upper terminal to create an angled stem
• Modified uni225D - decreased width of the lower terminal on the d character to create an angled stem
• Modified uni225E - decreased width of the upper terminal to create an angled stem

Symbol Character Set

• Modified curves in cent, colonmonetary, dong, euro, florin, lira, peseta, sterling, uni0E3F, uni20A0, uni20A2, uni20A5, uni20A8, uni20AA, uni20AF, uni20B0, uni20B1, uni20B2, uni20B4, uni20B5, uni20B9, approxequal, asciitilde, circlemultiply, circleplus, congruent, element, emptyset, infinity, integral, integralbt, integraltp, intersection, notelement, notsubset, partialdiff, percent, perthousand, propersubset, propersuperset, proportional, reflexsubset, reflexsuperset, similar, suchthat, therefore, uni2031, uni2126, uni2201, uni220A, uni220C, uni220D, uni2218, uni221B, uni222C, uni222D, uni2235, uni2236, uni2237, uni2238, uni2239, uni223A, uni223B, uni223D, uni2241, uni2242, uni2243, uni2244, uni2246, uni2247, uni2249, uni224A, uni224B, uni224C, uni224E, uni224F, uni2250, uni2251, uni2252, uni2253, uni2254, uni2255, uni2256, uni2257, uni2258, uni225D, uni225E, uni225F, uni2272, uni2273, uni2274, uni2275, uni227C, uni227D, uni227E, uni227F, uni2285, uni2288, uni2289, uni228B, uni228D, uni2296, uni2298, uni2299, uni229A, uni229B, uni229C, uni229D, uni22B8, uni22CD, uni22D0, uni22D1, uni22DE, uni22DF, uni22E0, uni22E1, uni22E6, uni22E7, uni22E8, uni22E9, uni22EF, uni23A8, uni23AC, uni27DC, uni2A00, uni2A6A, uni2A6B, union, uni219C, uni219D, uni21AD, uni21A9, uni21AA, uni21AB, uni21AC, uni21B6, uni21B7, uni21BA, uni21BB, uni21F4, H18533, circle, uni25EF, uni25D0, uni25D1, uni25D2, uni25D3, uni25D6, uni25D7, uni25D4, uni25D5, uni25F4, uni25F5, uni25F6, uni25F7, uni25CD, uni25C9, uni25CE, openbullet, invbullet, invcircle, uni25DA, uni25DB, uni25E0, uni25E1, uni25DC, uni25DD, uni25DE, uni25DF, at, ampersand, copyright, registered, section, degree, uni0606, uni03F6

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 i - increased left sidebearing
• Modified lowercase k - reduced left sidebearing
• Modified lowercase r - reduced left sidebearing
• Modified Zacute - centered glyph (reduced left sidebearing, increased right sidebearing)
• Modified Zcaron - centered glyph (reduced left sidebearing, increased right sidebearing)
• Modified Zdotaccent - centered glyph (reduced left sidebearing, increased right sidebearing)
• Modified aacute - increased left sidebearing
• Modified abreve - increased left sidebearing
• Modified acircumflex - increased left sidebearing
• Modified adieresis - increased left sidebearing
• Modified agrave - increased left sidebearing
• Modified amacron - increased left sidebearing
• Modified aogonek - increased left sidebearing
• Modified aring - increased left sidebearing
• Modified atilde - increased left sidebearing
• Modified kcommaaccent - decreased left sidebearing
• Modified racute - decreased left sidebearing
• Modified rcaron - decreased left sidebearing
• Modified rcommaaccent - decreased left sidebearing
• Mofified Mu - increased left sidebearing
• Modified Zeta - reduced left sidebearing to center the glyph
• Modified Rho - reduced left sidebearing
• Modified Phi - increased 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