Feature Request: Include bold, italic, etc font faces

[HB-the-Pencil]

This isn't a request for new glyphs, the font faces can just be identical but reclassified, but I would love to be able to use this font in my PyCharm IDE. As it is, however, PyCharm requires plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic font faces (and .ttf files, I believe). It would be great if you could release an update including these files, even if there is no visual change.

(By the way, that website is amazing :D)

[kimslawson]

I mocked up what a bold (a half-pixel to the right overstruck), italic (-10º shear), and bold italic (the two combined) might look like.

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I tried an italic that strictly adhered to the pixel grid where every row or every two rows was a half-pixel shifted from the ones below it, but it looked bad.

I'm not sure if these are in the spirit of Departure Mono? I don't like that if used in a raster context it would antialias (of course when used in vector works the slant wouldn't be a problem). Thoughts @minoraxis & @rektdeckard?

[HB-the-Pencil]

That looks good! The only issue is some blurriness on the italic font, but that could easily be cleaned up.

[minoraxis]

Hi all. It'd be fun to look at different weights. For this font, I wanted to stick to strict pixels — that may still be possible with a bold weight. I like your test @kimslawson and it looks like it's still uniwidth.

Keeping this discussion open.

[dieggsy]

How do browsers handle this? The woff2 seems to get italicized and bolded when empasized in the browser and it appears to retain fixed width while looking pretty good, but maybe my eyes deceive me?

Edit: I guess this is something like "synthetic" bold/italic. Emacs actually does this with the OTF (though italics seem only to work on macOS and not Gnome Fedora)