Feature Request: Autoscale Box Elements and Drawings for site customization

[uni-0000]

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Currently, Block Elements are fixed at the default font line height of 1.0, which causes gaps above this value, and line height 1.8 for Box Drawings, which causes overlap at lower values.

Idea/suggestion reference: FontPatcher

[uni-0000]

@eigilnikolajsen is this hard to implement?

[Andrew6rant]

Quick and dirty fix, in FontForge, you can select all of the box drawing / block elements and scale their Y values by whatever amount to remove gaps and overlaps. Element > Transformations > Transform: Scale... Something like 140% Y scale for block elements and 88% Y scale for box drawing elements works for a line height of 1.5rem.

You need to manually extend the heights of the light, medium, and dark shade blocks because they look terrible if their grids are stretched.

Here's a quick before/after:

You can see the slight overlap is mostly gone and the huge gaps are connected.

Would love a proper solution from @eigilnikolajsen though - I don't know my way around font editing software at all, haha

[uni-0000]

Thanks for help, but broke the boxes…