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No slashed zero?

Open NetOpWibby opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

This is a glaring omission for an otherwise amazing set of typefaces.

NetOpWibby avatar Nov 10 '23 03:11 NetOpWibby

0 with a dot inside of it serves the same purpose.

redactedscribe avatar Nov 10 '23 03:11 redactedscribe

@redactedscribe My purpose is viewing a slash within a zero. Thus, your comment serves no purpose.

NetOpWibby avatar Nov 10 '23 03:11 NetOpWibby

It would be nice to provide an extra ssXX or cvXX feature to support slashed zero (and back-slashed zero, empty zero, etc).

stone-zeng avatar Nov 10 '23 06:11 stone-zeng

@redactedscribe My purpose is viewing a slash within a zero. Thus, your comment serves no purpose.

0, O, and o are all sufficiently differentiated in the font. Sure, ask for an additional variant if you want, but I wouldn't say it's a glaring omission.

redactedscribe avatar Nov 10 '23 13:11 redactedscribe

+1 I got excited about this font and when I found out there's no slashed-zero stylistic set, I got kinda surprised. I really hope you add it, because people who like slashed-zeros over dotted-zeros will not use it as is in my case.

My reason is that dotted-zeros can remind me of the "Theta" symbol (U+2609), which distracts me for a very small amount of time and I'd check its unicode if I was unsure, because the dotted-zero symbol has too many meanings to be just zero (for me). And my reasoning of the slashed-zero is that it can remind me of an "Empty Set" symbol (U+2205), but if reminded it's not distracting at all because it has the meaning of zero in itself.

I'd like to know if you're planning of adding it?

Good reference fonts with the slashed-zero stylistic set: SF Mono, ArrowType, Droid Sans, Fira Code, Consolas

kenny-kvibe avatar Nov 16 '23 11:11 kenny-kvibe