Hack/CHANGELOG.md

Version 2.0

TODO:

START ON GREEK SET

• all new chars for bold, oblique, and 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 (Cyrillic set)
• adjust t horizontal stem so that it has an angle

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 punctuation glyphs (shapes from DejaVu Sans Mono typeface)
• New Powerline glyphs
• New dotlessi
• New iacute
• New icircumflex
• New idieresis
• New igrave
• New imacron
• New iogonek
• New itilde
• 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 in regular and bold sets
• Modified lowercase b - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified lowercase d - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified lowercase g - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• 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 in regular and bold sets
• Modified lowercase n - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified lowercase p - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified lowercase q - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• Modified lowercase r - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets
• 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 acircumflex - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets

• Modified atilde - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets

• Modified adieresis - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets

• Modified aring - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets

• Modified dcroat - decreased width of terminal, opened angle in regular and bold sets

• 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

• Modified gcommaaccent - modified curves of bowl and tail

• Modified gdotaccent - modified curves of bowl and tail

• Modified hbar - adjusted curves

• Modified nacute - adjusted curves

• Modified ncaron - adjusted curves

• Modified ncommaaccent - adjusted curves

• Modified eng - adjusted curves

• 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

• Modified rcaron - adjusted curves

• Modified rcommaaccent - adjusted curves

• Modified sacute - adjusted curves

• Modified scedila - adjusted curves

• Modified scommaaccent - adjusted curves

• Modified tcommaaccent - adjusted curves

• Modified uhorn - adjusted curves

• Modified uhungarumlaut - adjusted curves

• Modified umacron - adjusted curves

• Modified uogonek - adjusted curves

• Modified uring - adjusted curves

• Modified utilde - adjusted curves

• 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 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

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

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
• 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

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