Any plan to create compressed/condensed or thin styles?

[c02y]

I enjoy PragmataPro, which is relatively thin, so if you can create compressed/condensed styles for it, I would appreciate that.

[chrissimpkins]

Do you mean thinner strokes or narrower horizontal spacing between the characters?

[c02y]

I don't exactly understand the meaning of your expression.

You don't have to change anything, just make the width smaller or height bigger, you can google "compressed/condensed font " for images of those kinds of fonts, many fonts consist of regular, italic, bold, compressed/condensed, and maybe even more complicated font styles combined of those basic styles.

[chrissimpkins]

Interested to know if you want the individual glyph shapes to appear narrower (i.e. finer like a thin style font) or if you want narrower spacing between glyphs so that they appear closer together (a condensed set).

[c02y]

When you already made characters narrower, if you don't make them closer, the big space between characters would make your code/text extremely ugly.

[chrissimpkins]

There are no immediate plans to support a thin set. Let's leave this open and see if we can attack it down the road.

[c02y]

The space between characters of compressed/condensed could just be the same as the regular style, no need to be smaller than regular.

[davidcelis]

Hey @chrissimpkins, I was about to open an issue with this same request. I think what @c02y is trying to say is just that it would be nice to have a set with thinner strokes. For example, I currently use Source Code Pro and prefer to go all the way to ExtraLight. I love the look of Hack but I've gotten so used to a thin stroke that it seems bold to me 😉

I'm not a font designer so I could be totally wrong, but it doesn't appear that a thin set would require any sort of spacing changes. It should be similar to creating a bold set but on the other end of the spectrum.

[chrissimpkins]

Thanks @davidcelis and @c02y. I understand. Let me look into whether there is a reasonably straightforward interpolation approach that we could use. Unfortunately this isn't (/may not be) a simple request and may require a manual draw of an entirely new set.

[sjrmanning]

I believe @c02y is actually after a condensed version, whereas @davidcelis is after a set with, like he said thinner strokes. I would like to +1 for thinner strokes — especially on retina displays I find light variants are much nicer to read.

[chrissimpkins]

@sjrmanning noted. thank you very much

[chrissimpkins]

Have been looking into this in more detail over the last week. I think that this may be possible. Will update here.

[c02y]

Thank you. I'm looking forward to it.

[anna-is-cute]

I was also looking to move from Source Code Pro, which is what I use everywhere. Using Hack is nice in my IDE, but I prefer a lighter font weight for terminals and IRC. I would love to see this, since then I could use Hack everywhere!