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Hyphen is Too Long #165

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amarz45 opened this issue Mar 18, 2023 · 2 comments
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Hyphen is Too Long #165

amarz45 opened this issue Mar 18, 2023 · 2 comments

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@amarz45
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amarz45 commented Mar 18, 2023

The hyphen character looks a little bit too long in my opinion. I sometimes may confuse it with the en dash. Can you shorten it a little bit or add a character variant for a shorter hyphen character? Thanks.

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psb1558 commented Mar 20, 2023

You have a sharp eye! I just did a survey of the width of the hyphen in some fonts I respect (in font-units, normalized for a 1000-unit em square):

  • Brill - 282
  • Gentium - 337
  • Charis - 320
  • Roboto Flex - 349
  • Roboto Serif - 441
  • Garamond Premier Pro - 292

While Junicode has 404, more than all but Roboto Serif (which seems an outlier). I have reduced the width of the hyphen by 40 font units:
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amarz45 commented Mar 20, 2023

Great, it looks much better now.

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