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Font Request: Hack

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
design

Research direction

Start by reviewing the prior attempts and discussion in #71, #78, and #82, then inspect the Hack source and LICENSE.md linked in the issue. Done means the Hack font is added to font-files in accordance with its license and the earlier concerns are addressed.

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Description

font request
Font Name

Hack is a monospaced font designed for source code that has been quite popular a few years back...
It's also available on GitHub.

For some strange reason the already have been two PRs, one even got accepted but was the reverted for a quite lazy reason, see: #71, #78, #82

Related

Link to font source

https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack

Link to font license

https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack/blob/master/LICENSE.md

Additional context

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Dominant language
CSS
Stars
507
Forks
74
No merged PRs in 30d

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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