Add space characters of various lengths.#18
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Adds the following Unicode space characters:
| Unicode | Character | Width |
| ------- | ------------------------- | ------------------------ |
| 8192 | en quad | 1/2 of font’s em size |
| 8193 | em quad | Font’s em size |
| 8194 | en space | 1/2 of font’s em size |
| 8195 | em space | Font’s em size |
| 8196 | three-per-em space | 1/3 of font’s em size |
| 8197 | four-per-em space | 1/4 of font’s em size |
| 8198 | six-per-em space | 1/6 of font’s em size |
| 8199 | figure space | Width of the digit ‘0’ |
| 8200 | punctuation space | Width of a dot character |
| 8201 | thin space | 1/5 of font’s em size |
| 8202 | hair space | 1/6 of font’s em size |
| 8239 | narrow no-break space | 1/3 of width of space |
| 8287 | medium mathematical space | 2/9 of font’s em size |
The widths for each layer were copied (with appropriate calculation) from
font’s em size (1000) or width of corresponding character (as per the
table) in that layer. Sizes based on Microsoft Typography documentation.¹
¹ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/develop/character-design-standards/whitespace
Conversion done with fontmake as follows:
fontmake -g sources/$in.glyphs -o variable --output-path fonts/variable/$out.ttf
Other font files left not updated for now.
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Adds the following Unicode space characters:
The widths for each layer were copied (with appropriate calculation) from
font’s em size (1000) or width of corresponding character (as per the
table) in that layer. Sizes based on Microsoft Typography documentation.¹
¹ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/develop/character-design-standards/whitespace
Also updates the variable font files however for the time being other font files
are left untouched.
I’ve started testing the fonts on my website, and they seem to work fine.