Short middle leg for lower case m?

[AndydeCleyre]

Hi! Thanks for this, it's fantastic.

Probably the current design for lower case m is very deliberate and not to change, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Have you considered shortening the middle leg of the m? To me, especially at small sizes, that really helps to give the glyph its own shape, and avoids looking like a dense block.

FWIW here are the other coding fonts I can find featuring a short middle for the lower case m:

Ubuntu Mono:

Iosevka:

BigBlue Terminal:

Binchotan Sharp:

Fixedsys:

Lekton:

Monaspace Radon:

Monocraft:

Monoflow:

Monofoki:

Scientifica:

Spleen:

[matype]

Hi @AndydeCleyre , thank you for using!

I knew of fonts that used a short middle leg m like the one you gave as an example, but thought it might not fit 0xProto.

But you are right, it looks good for legibility, especially at small sizes.
I will actually make a glyph and test it before deciding whether to change it or not.

I'm on vacation until April 17, so I'll do that after that :)

[matype]

I shortened the middle leg of the lowercase m. This is the new lowercase glyph for 0xProto.

Compared to Ubuntu Mono, the middle leg may still seem long, but if I shortened it too much, only m would appear to float above the baseline, changing the rhythm of the other letters and making it difficult to read, so I went with the current length.

This change will be included in the v2.000 ( #66 ) release.

[AndydeCleyre]

It looks great, thanks so much!

[matype]

@AndydeCleyre I've just released v2.000 with the updates discussed in this issue!
Notably, the middle leg of the m is now a bit longer than in this comment. Please try out version 2.000 and let me know if you have any questions or further feedback.