Re: [emacs-humanities] Optical Size Adjustment of Variable Fonts in Emacs

[Paul W. Rankin]

This is cool, thanks for sharing Oliver. I think you can achieve this with a 
theme. Themes can have as many variables and functions as you like, and you can 
enable multiple themes at once.


> On 9 Apr 2021, at 5:26 am, Oliver Taylor via Emacs-humanities 
> <emacs-humanities@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Most variable width fonts are optically smaller (meaning they look smaller) 
> than their monospace counterparts at the same point size, even those that are 
> designed to be used together.
> 
> The relationship between the default, variable- and fixed-width faces is 
> somewhat complex and doesn’t easily allow you to optically correct your font 
> sizes in a way that works with both text-scale-adjust and in documents with 
> mixed pitches.
> 
> So I’ve created a little minor mode that fixes this problem.
> 
> And I’ve written a post[1] describing the problem and how I found the 
> solution, but before I publish it on my website I wanted to get opinions from 
> this list.
> 
> I could, of course, simply post the minor mode and explain what it does, but 
> I wanted to write a bit of a story that describes how I found the problem, 
> the various approaches I took, and the solution I created.
> 
> Any suggestions for the write-up or the code are welcome.
> 
> And, would anyone be interested in helping me create a package from this? I 
> feel like this is a common problem in need of a solution, and I haven’t seen 
> other packages that deal with this.
> 
> I’ve never created a package before and I’m sure my code could do with a 
> great deal of improvement/standardization.
> 
> [1] 
> https://github.com/olivertaylor/olivertaylor.github.io/blob/master/notes/20210324_emacs-optical-font-adjustment.org
> 
> Please note that the images only really display the problem when displayed at 
> the correct resolution, and github’s css enlarges them to the width of the 
> window, so you may need to use a small window to see the problem.
> 
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