Tracking / Letter Spacing

[Mark2Mark]

Note on the spacing decissions

When I decided for the spacing initially, it snapped better to the pixel grid in some environments like the Mac Terminal with small font sizes (like 10~12), which Gintronic is designed to work in well. Different code editors seem to interpret font spacing slightly different. However, this seems a less relevant nowadays, which is why I also decided to make its spacing more common with other programming fonts.

How to get a narrower spaced Gintronic?

Since times, software and hardware have changed, I have an updated version with narrower letter spacing at hand. Please contact me with your invoice if you want to get it.

If you got Gintronic via bBox Type

The "original" Gintronic on bBox will not get this particular update, since it would break downwards compatibility with certain users. In case you bought it from there and want the update, please let me know here.

[Mark2Mark]

refer: Note

[effinsky]

is there anywhere one can see the decreased letter spacing before getting the font?

[Mark2Mark]

Hi @effinsky, thanks for asking.

Yes, I’ll attach a set of screenshots for different languages here. These show the current state of the Gintronic with the narrower (soon default) letter spacing.

I hope this helps to get a better idea. Let me know if you want more/better images.

Python PHP Objective-C Markdown Kotlin Java Haskel HTML & Twig Go TypeScript Swift React JS CSS ANSI SwiftUI

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[effinsky]

Thanks a bunch, Mark. That's awesome. It's such a funky font!

[sh4r1k7]

Hi Mark, any chance you could post one side by side comparison with the old version, and if not too much trouble against Consola just as a baseline comparison with a standard font? I can tell it's much better but it's still a bit hard to gauge.

[Mark2Mark]

I can do the side by side later when back on the computer.

[Mark2Mark]

Quick note: as I am currently on a work travel, I am a little slower with such things, but I’ll try to, as soon as I get a spare hour. Sorry for the waiting.

[sh4r1k7]

You're too kind, take your time.

[Mark2Mark]

Sorry for the waiting, I am more occupied here than I anticipated.

To shorten the waiting, here’s a quick comparisson of Gintronic (narrower spacing) and Menlo. I don’t have Consolas on my machine, but Menlo is one default option on the Mac, so maybe that can do?

Gintronic - Python Menlo - Python

[Mark2Mark]

Here a quick comparisson of Python code in Gintronic.

1. wide spacing, as it currently ships per default
2. narrow spacing, as I currently send it out on request, and will be the default soon.

Gintronic - wide spacing Gintronic - narrow spacing

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I also added a note about the wide/narrow design decissions into the first post of this thread.

[sh4r1k7]

That's great, thank you!

[sh4r1k7]

This looks a lot better, the old width made this delicious font unusable for me.

Do you have an ETA on the release and will it include fixes to the 'x' and '~' tickets?