Features:
- Arabic (and Urdu) support added (design by Mohamad Dakak) (#84)
- See the Arabic features PDF for the exciting new Arabic ligature
functionality used in Cascadia Code that gives the font greatly improved
readability and feel more more akin to a text typeface.
- Don't want all that? Don't worry, Cascadia Mono will house a normal
version of Arabic.
- Hebrew support added (design by Liron Lavi Turkenich) (#465)
- Due to popular demand, we've introduced a more "toned-down" version of
Cascadia Italic, which does away with a number of the cursive letter forms.
(#468)
- Entry and exit strokes across the italic lowercase have been rounded
to better achieve the fun / playful design language that we intended
for the italic. Other skeletons have been modified as necessary.
Cyrillic has also been updated for better consistency with the new
design.
- You can now activate the original cursive versions of /f /l /s and
/r with typographic feature salt or ss01.
Changes:
- We have adjusted the slant on all of the italic letters to make sure it's
consistent (#470)
- Italic Only: #507 - bar and broken bar will now stay upright for better
clarity
- Fixing a bug in the ccmp feature file and added ccmp to the feature
set in the build script.
- Deleting the (unused) liga feature file
- Vika has reviewed and improved some forms in Cascadia Code upright.
- Greek lowercase has been updated per feedback from Gerry Leonidas to
be more cohesive (No longer a mix between a "Monday" and "Friday" font.
All Friday, all the time!)
- #422 - Bitcoin glyph added
- #427 - FFFD glyph added
- #418 - top bar corrected
- #433 - hinting corrected to ensure alignment
- #435 - adds consistent ligature form for =>> <<= =<< and
>>= (the infinite arrows still work with addition of more equals)
- #443 - ligature now ignores (*) scenario
- #454 - adds ignore to prevent equal_equal ligature from showing up
- #467 - Not specifically sure of the problem here, but suspect that it will
be fixed with this - update.
- #477, #478, #479, #480 - interpolation issues fixes in a lot of ligatures
- #481 - JetBrains enumerates fonts weird. We've modified the internal naming
so that it will register Cascadia Code correctly. Also aligned postscript
naming with Google's recommendation, so will show up as "Regular" instead of
"Roman".
- General improvement of weight balancing
- Weight of lowercase rounds reduced in the Bold weight in Cascadia Code.
- Weight of Capital stems increased in Extralight weight in Cascadia Code.
- Tweaked weight of ogonek in ExtraLight.
- Added a localized form for ij and IJ should a user chose to use those
codepoints and want an accented version.
- Split fraction bar at heavier weights to improve clarity of fractions.
- Adjusted standard box drawing characters to align with GDI metrics, and added
a complete set of DWrite-specific ones that align with sTypo (using rclt).
- Ironed out some tiny inconsistencies in the <$ $> <$> ligatures which
we suspect no one will ever notice.
- Fixed centering of braces and some hyphens.
- Fixed inconsistency between semicolon/colon and period weight in bold. Also
fixed slight differences in hyphen-like glyphs in bold. You're as surprised
as we are.
- Increased weight of underscore in bold.
- Changed design of commaaccent, commaaccentmod commaturnedabove and commaabove
to be more distinguishable (following design of quotes).
- Fixed descents of various greek lowercase glyphs that were inconsistent.
- Felt ligated, might edit later.
- Corrected some additional interpolation bugs
This is a bugfix release of the Cascadia font family.
Fixes include:
Closes#406 - updated anchor type to lock with the other equals-related ligatures
Closes#408 - corrected component used for glyph to align with Unicode
Closes#412 - updated locl features removing iacute_j ligature and Catalan substitution
Closes#414 - increased overlaps of middle glyph for arrow ligatures
Closes#415 - reduces width of macronbelow
Closes#416 - rolls back name ID 4 modification as JetBrains cannot process it correctly
Closes#428 - rolls back variation of the underline to prevent MVAR table generation
Repositioned tilde in related ligatures. Previously it was higher than the standard one.
Added missing vietnamese anchors on acute and grave (futureproofing).
Corrected / made consistent greater & less positioning in </> and <$> related ligatures.
Otherwise reviewed hinting
This update to the Cascadia font family brings the following changes:
The full control pictures block has been added (u+2400 to u+2426). For purposes of rendering, the two letter
abbreviations have been used instead of the standard three letter abbreviations (#219)
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Additionally, ss20 includes the oft-unused graphical representations of these codepoints (for fun!)
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Full support for Fira Code's current ligature set (with a few exceptions). Now featuring infinite arrows!!! (#276)
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This involved a full refactoring of the calt feature—for those interested, it now uses forward-looking
substitutions instead of backward-looking substitutions and progressive substitution to reduce code. This also
required some redesigning of the greater / lesser related ligatures. Please note, I have also removed all the
obsolete ligatures now covered by the arrows code.
There was a mismatch in the font's postscript naming conventions that was corrected. Should now render all weights in
Word. Note there is apparently an additional bug in Mac Word's implementation of variable fonts which should be
available in an update mid-Feb. (#329)
Reworked the hints for the mod and superscript glyphs so that they're bottom-up rather than top-down. This allows for
better bottom alignments.
New Glyphs
⏎ (#262)
additional codepoints for control characters U+21B2, U+2771, U+2770, U+2423 (#264)
U+211E ℞ (#324)
U+2302 HOUSE (#359)
New Ligatures
!: and !. added (#281)
/\ and \/ added (#290)
??= added (#301)
<:> and other variants implemented via the calt (#327)
refactoring
Changes
Added x-height instruction into ttfautohint to control the (#371)
height of the lowercase.
Completely redesigned quote marks for better recognition (#375)
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Note: this only applies to curved/smart quotes
updated hinting to achieve more consistent results (#377)
increased height of thetamod (#381)
reduced the width of the hooklefts (#382)
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updated heights on esh, glottalstop, glottalstopreversed (#383)
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tweaked hinting a little bit (#384)
added remaining soft-dotting (#386)
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changed designs of the angled quotes (#392)
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changed former ~= symbol to a simpler component-based (#394)
version. Should be less confusing now for Lua / Matlab users.
made the underline thicker based on font weight (#395)
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increased size of degree (#400)
Aside from the above changes, this version also includes many other small updates including spacing, outline quality
improvements, and fixing hinting.
This makes it easier to use the mk fragment with fonts that need a build
step, like new liberation-ttf.
While here switch some fonts using post-install unnecessarily to do-install
(Committed at the same time as it wasn't tested separately)
No PLIST changes to the packages/build breakage, so no changes expected
to the packages.
2009.22
We realized the Freetype rendering issue documented in #350 had
been addressed in neither 2009.14 nor 2009.21. To that end, this
is a reissue of 2009.21 with that workaround in place.
So, without further ado (and with a new build pipeline thanks to
@madig!):
We have implemented a workaround for a freetype rendering issue
that resulted in chunky rendering for certain glyphs (#350)
This bugfix release to the Cascadia family of fonts fixes
diacritic positioning for the Salishan languages.
2009.14
This update to the Cascadia font family brings the following changes:
Cascadia now has support for the Salishan languages of the
Pacific Northwest and other coastal scripts!
We've fixed an issue in the -<< ligature that caused it to
overlap itself at certain font weights (#355)
We remastered mark positioning for glyphs with existing diacritics
for improved design for letters with multiple diacritics above
We have implemented a workaround for a freetype rendering issue
that resulted in chunky rendering for certain glyphs (#350)
This update to the Cascadia family of fonts brings the following changes:
We are now generating static TTFs for every named variant
These static instances will be hinted using ttfautohint, and so will look different than the variable font at small and intermediate point sizes
We've temporarily stopped shipping variable OTFs due to some concerns about overlapping and psautohint
The heaviest weight of Cascadia has been made a little lighter
We have aligned the Powerline glyphs and the box-/line-drawing glyphs better to their metrics and to the letter glyphs
Diacritic anchors have been added to all alphabetic characters (#282, #330)
The font now ships with decomposed fi and fl ligatures
The horn combining diacritic has had its weight fixed somewhat for Bold
Primes have been redesigned to give them a more "angled" feel (#294)
Acute and grave have been given additional weight to help differentiate them from dot (#268)
The contextual alternate for x used to signify hexadecimal numbers has been disabled (#285)
The Cascadia font family is now available with a variable weight axis ranging from extra-light (200) to bold (700).
In addition, the following bugs were fixed and changes were made:
Changes
The double-equals ligature == has been updated to improve visual clarity (image)
The diacritics on IJacute are no longer malformed
We've introduced a set of compatibility features to improve the rendering of powerline glyphs in legacy GDI applications