source-foundry/Hack

Medium/Semibold Weight

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#241 opened on Feb 9, 2017

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Description

For terminals especially, I prefer to use a medium or semibold weight just to make the characters a little more distinguishable especially at small sizes with giant walls of text (think server logs and such). Would love to see this offered in one of those weights.

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Tech stack
None
Domain
designaccessibility
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
4
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
over 1 week
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
unclear
Prerequisites
None
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
30
Research direction
The issue requests a medium or semibold weight for the Hack font. To implement, one would need to understand font design using tools like FontForge or Glyphs. The project uses a build system based on shell scripts. Existing discussions in the comments may provide guidance. Consider examining the font source files (e.g., .sfd or .glyphs) and checking if there are any related PRs or branches.