On 14.05.2010 12:10, Alex Parker wrote:
I'm not sure I think this is a good idea - the font will still appear in browse fonts, yet won't even be able to render the menus in latin characters. This sounds like a recipe for confusion. Given the way font loading works, having no letters won't save any RAM anyway.
I agree, it may lead to confusion. I didn't include any letters in the font not to save RAM but because I think nobody would use such a big font as the UI font. Because of this, I also set ascent and descent to zero -- so that the digits can be positioned very exactly. Out of this reason it would be hard to add normal letters to the font since they usually have some ascents/descents.
I agree that large numerical fonts make sense for some stuff - I have made 40 and 50 point ones myself for big screen FM targets
Where do you keep them?
Thoughts?
Maybe have a folder with special purpose fonts? Or add glyphs from some other font to this one, e.g. 19-Nimbus?
But I (or anybody else) can revert the commit if you think the font makes more harm than good as it's now.
