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Stylistic alternative for "1"

Open shadoxxhd opened this issue 3 months ago • 1 comments

The 1 glyph seems much less "clean" than other digits of this font, due to its significant serifs.

Compared with droid-sans, most of the numbers look very similar, with the exceptions of 0 (FiraCode defaults to a slashed one), 4 (FiraCode is open, which I prefer) and 1 (droid-sans doesn't have any serifs).

Besides my preference for the sans-serif look of the 1 glyph, I also think a sans-serif version would be more distinguishable from similar glyphs (l, i), which all do have serifs.

Would it be possible to add a sans-serif version of the 1 glyph as a character variant? If so, should it become the default due to the distinguishability advantage I mentioned?

shadoxxhd avatar Sep 25 '25 00:09 shadoxxhd

Character variant — yes Default — probably not. 1 without serifs is too narrow

tonsky avatar Sep 25 '25 11:09 tonsky