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character request: ∶ #480
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Thank you for this very useful and beautiful font.
I'm using it as my system UI font, and I noticed on my lock screen clock that the ratio character, ∶, is missing.
Is that something that would make sense to add?
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arrowtype commentedon Oct 8, 2021
Hi @illfygli, thanks for reaching out! Sorry for my delayed response.
I’d be happy to add this character. In your opinion, should it look exactly like the colon,
:, or should it be different in some way?I have another, similar request to fulfill (#481), so I will try to make this happen in the upcoming days.
illfygli commentedon Oct 8, 2021
The reason why it's used in the clock seems to be that ratio is more vertically centered than colon.
Compare these two:
X∶:X
assuming it's the same in the font you're seeing here. :)
When I look in Gnome's character picker, I can also see that it's higher above the baseline, but looks otherwise identical.
arrowtype commentedon Oct 13, 2021
Thanks!
Actually, for me on macOS Catalina, the ratio glyph actually looks quite a bit smaller than the colon! Here’s what I see:
But yeah, I think it makes more sense to make this vertically centered with caps and figures. I’ll give it a try!
illfygli commentedon Oct 13, 2021
Oh yeah, it is centered but smaller on my Android phone too:
With the San Francisco font it looks like it centers colon when it's sandwiched between numbers or uppercase letters:
12:34 ab:cd AB:CD
But for me with SF Pro installed, the ratio character is square instead of round and does not work like that, but is always centered. :)
arrowtype commentedon Oct 19, 2021
Hi @illfygli, if you’d like to try it out, I have the ratio added to the latest font build, here:
https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/tree/c1a7672a267084871899fca6679b4a33aabbe429/fonts/ArrowType-Recursive-1.080
(I will probably make a proper GitHub Release soon, but I’m working on adding one more thing, first.)
illfygli commentedon Oct 19, 2021
It looks really nice!
Thanks for adding it. :)
illfygli commentedon Oct 19, 2021
Action shot on my lock screen:
arrowtype commentedon Oct 19, 2021
Excellent, thanks for trying it out and letting me know, @illfygli! That lock screen is a beauty. :)