V7.0 Beta30

In this release, I did some works to make >> and >>> more "smarter", but there are some limitations due to the render engine and the conflict usage. You can make it "normal" as previous release by enabling ss07. See details in #275 .

Also, I found a interesting feature that allow to merge two variable fonts into one without breaking the "variable". See details in #271.

Other features:

• disable <- when having tailing number
• longger |> / <| ...
• optimize a, %, @, ~@ in cv01, cv02
• improve i, f #273
• break italic connected strokes when multiple
• improve italic x, add italic xl
• improve $, &, b, d, p, q, italic d / n / p / r / u

V7.0 Beta29

Last week, I happened to watch a video about font design, and I realized that some aspects of my font were not quite appropriate, so I improved those issues in this release. While the differences might not be noticeable in everyday coding, the font's quality and legibility have indeed been enhanced.

Changes

• optimize percent.cv01 and numbersign.cv01 #245
• fix contour sequence issues
• remove space required in <<  and  >> by default #233
• sharpen latin letters' cross corner, adjust weird glyph stems
• make ss05 to disable escape char #234
• move double headed arrows and reversed arrows ( like <<- / >>= / -< ) to ss08
• add support to remove all ligature #248

V7.0 Beta28

The files are updated after fixing some bugs in build script

Breaking Change

More fine-grained ligatures and features, see docs and #255

Other Changes

• optimize glyphs
• refactor build script
• partially support narrowed CN glyphs #249

PS: VSCode have no unified font family amd cannot customize background image, so I made a extension

Test Condensed Version

Reduce the character width from 600 to 550

Regular Variable version only

Edit: add regular static MapleMono-CN.ttf

V7.0 Beta27

• add comma to escape class
• more ignore cases in ligatures
• optimize >= / <=
• add =<= / =>=
• add percent in cv01 #245

The ligatures will be changed in next release. Here is the proposal:

Character Variant (cvXX)

• cv01: @ $ & % Q => -> without gap
• cv02: a with top arm
• cv03: i without left bottom bar
• cv04: l with left bottom bar, like consolas

italic

• cv31: italic a with top arm
• cv32: italic f without bottom tail
• cv33: italic i j with left bottom bar and horizen top bar
• cv34: italic k without circle
• cv35: italic l without tail
• cv36: italic x without tail

Style Sets (ssXX)

• ss01: disable equals
• ss02: disable <= >=
• ss03: enable arbitrary tag
• ss04: disable __ #__
• ss05: disable escape in letter \n \r \t \b \f
• ss06: disable al / ul / il / ff ...
• ss07: disable << >> <<< >>>

V7.0 Beta26

• improve build script
• remove locl in Maple Mono CN #239
• remove ligatures *** / [< / >]
• add ligatures <:< >:> :=: ##__
• optmize ignore case
• optimize &

There is a poll regarding a Breaking Change to ligatures in the upcoming beta version at #244. Feel free to share your opinion or leave a comment!

V7.0 Beta25

• improve 7 kerning
• fix unaligned components in composite glyphs
• add variable woff2 build to git repo

V7.0 Beta24

• improve б / 6 / 9 #223
• remove \/ and /\ ligatures
• check lsb of all italic symbols

Some thought about built-in syntax highlight

V7.0 Beta23

• improve M / , and italic x / k
• increase lsb of some italic symbols
• more cases in escape ligatures, will be disabled in ss04
• remove f and y in ss01
• support italic feature freeze config and add normal preset
  • run python build.py --normal to make the font just like Jetbrains Mono (with slashed zero)

V7.0 Beta22

• add ss04: Disable ligatures on __, #__, ***
• add some ignore cases in calt
• support font features freeze config in local build
• externalize config (edit in config.json)

Gitee release for MapleMono-NF-CN