source-foundry/Hack

Bold italic zero not as heavy as other characters

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#356 opened on Dec 3, 2017

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Description

Thanks for your work on this great font, as well as the alt-hack character variants.

While using it, I noticed that the bold italic zero doesn't appear as heavy as the other bold italic characters, or as the bold upright zero. This screenshot shows what I mean:

peek 2017-12-02 23-34

The first line is DejaVu Sans Mono, for the sake of comparison, and the second line is Hack. Both are in bold. When I toggle from non-italic to italic, it appears that the outline of the zero becomes thinner.

Perhaps this was a design decision, but it stuck out to me, and so I wanted to get your thoughts on it.

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Research direction
The issue describes a visual inconsistency in the bold italic zero glyph. Investigate the font source files (likely .sfd or .ufo) to locate the zero glyph's outlines. Compare the stroke weight of the zero with other bold italic characters. Adjust the zero's outlines to match the overall weight. Refer to any comments in the issue for further details or maintainer input.