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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Research direction
Research how to add a new weight to the Hack font using the font build tools, likely involving source files in UFO or Glyphs format and build scripts.
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Domain
design
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Feature
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3
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Over 1 week
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Active
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Clear
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Git
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50