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Mark Lloyd | 18 Jun 2011 22:24
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DejaVu Sans Mono Condensed

 

As a Network Engineer I do a lot of analysis of network captures and computer logs.  The best type of font I have found for this work is a condensed monospaced font, but I have not found a font of this kind that I have been totally happy with. 

 

I created a prototype DejaVu Sans Mono Condensed using FontForge:

 

·         Weight Embolded by 50em

·         Scaled on X Axis by 72%

·         Width Scaled by 80%

·         Autohinted in Fontforge

 

Attached are screenshots of a Wireshark capture displayed with DejaVu Sans Mono and my Fontforge generated prototype of DejaVu Sans Mono Condensed.

 

I have uploaded the prototype ttf and the FontForge file along with screenshots here: http://fyels.com/6B800p

 

·         What would it take to have a finished version of Dejavu Sans Mono Condensed added to the DejaVu collection?

·         Are there any copyright issues that I should be aware of casually distributing this prototype?

 

Thanks,

 

Mark Lloyd

Seattle

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James Cloos | 19 Jun 2011 22:32
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Re: DejaVu Sans Mono Condensed

I agree that a condensed version of Mono is most welcome.

A fontforge script (either ff or py) which automates the changes you
made would, I think, be optimal.  That would make it easy to keep the
condensed version up to date as glyphs are added to Mono, and should
work for all four faces.

I suspect that such a script also would make a nice condensed version
of the Serif faces.

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Felix Miata | 20 Jun 2011 01:34
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Re: DejaVu Sans Mono Condensed

FWIW, you should be able to see on 
http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-face-samplesM.html or something like it 
that the most commonly installed monospace fonts are of same pitch, M$ 
Consolas being the only exception I'm aware of. Unless DejaVu Sans Mono 
Condensed is to be a reduced pitch font, I don't see a point having it, while 
reduced pitch monospace for web use is likely to produce some unexpected 
and/or undesirable results.
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Mark Lloyd | 20 Jun 2011 21:50
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Re: DejaVu Sans Mono Condensed

I've already found an issue with the prototype, the capital O does not
display correctly in Windows. I'm going to also try to do the conversion in
Typetool this evening and see if it looks better.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Cloos [mailto:cloos@...] 
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Subject: Re: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Sans Mono Condensed

I agree that a condensed version of Mono is most welcome.

A fontforge script (either ff or py) which automates the changes you made
would, I think, be optimal.  That would make it easy to keep the condensed
version up to date as glyphs are added to Mono, and should work for all four
faces.

I suspect that such a script also would make a nice condensed version of the
Serif faces.

-JimC
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