Nerd Fonts 3.2.0 / 3.2.1 Release

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Here are considerations revolving around the upcoming 3.2.0 release.

Issues down to 11 ;-)

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Font updates

Original Font Name and Repository	ver	update
0xProto	1.602	1.603
IBM Plex Mono	2.3	2.004
Commit Mono	1.141	1.143
Geist Mono	1.0.1	1.3.0
Inconsolata LGC	1.3	1.5.2
Lilex	2.300	2.400
Victor Mono	1.5.4	1.5.6

DONE

Bugs

Add glyph to core set

Just Ada stuck.

DONE

New fonts

Need to clean up font suggestion list, based on list in 3.1.0 discussion
Not many new suggestions

Lets see what we have here (master list here)

Name	Link	arbitrary rank	arbitrary points	comment	issue
Courier Prime Code	https://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/	9	13		#314
B612Mono	https://b612-font.com/	7	2		#383
CamingoCode	https://janfromm.de/typefaces/camingomono/camingocode/	7	0		#386
Dina Font	http://www.dcmembers.com/jibsen/download/61/	-	5	no outline font	#399
Fira Code iScript	https://github.com/kencrocken/FiraCodeiScript	8	11	no license, 2 fonts combined	#548
Sarasa Gothic	https://github.com/be5invis/Sarasa-Gothic	6	5	CJK font	#587
Recursive	https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive	5	8		#845
Photonico	https://github.com/Photonico/Photonico_Code	8	0		#995
Julia Mono	https://juliamono.netlify.app/	9	0		#1011
DM Mono	https://github.com/googlefonts/dm-mono	7	4		#1299
Hybrid Mono	https://github.com/ghazyami/hybrid-mono-fonts	9	0		#1335
Twilio Sans Mono	https://github.com/twilio/twilio-sans-mono	7	3	PR #1465	#1458
Iosevka Extended		8	1		#1475
Titillium		9	0		#1512
Koda Mono	https://fontesk.com/kode-mono-typeface/	9	0		#1533
Zed Mono	https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts	5	6	PR #1504	-

rank: less is better, points: more is better

Lets see if we can include all up to rank 4, maybe 5 into 3.2.0

• Recursive
• Zed Mono
• (Courier Prime? Why is the rank so low (I mean high)? 🤔 )
• Ubuntu Sans

DONE

New glyphs sets

Check out file icons and feather icons
Nothing this time.

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• Local test release started... # [Nerd Fonts] Total source fonts found: 761
• A lot stuff broken 😒
  • Add missing Zed mono variant
  • Fix naming problem for Blex (regression)
  • Fix naming problem for Lilex (new non-standard weight)
  • Remove obsolete partched MPlus fonts
  • Fix Terminus-Bold-Italic parsing
  • Fix naming glitch with Semi becoming a token (it's only a modifier)
  • Change RecMonoSemiCasual re-naming
  • Naming problems with updated Noto and keep_regular
  • Feature/release fixes #1586
• Adjust package.json
• Trigger Release workflow, manually
• Create changelog.md manually from git diff --oneline and also put onto gh-pages as new release
• Edit release draft comment with changelog
• Update sankey diagram and commit to repo and gh-pages
• Fix wrong tag names for new Poweline glyphs
• Create font previews
• Prepare casks Nerd Fonts 3.0.0 / 3.0.1 / 3.0.2 Release #1074 (comment)
  • Sync fork of https://github.com/Finii/homebrew-cask-fonts
  • Update PAT in Github_Profile - Settings - Developer_Settings - Personal_Access_Tokens - Fine-grained_Tokens
  • Put it into the file
• Publish Release
• Trigger Cask workflow manually
• Create PR is cask fork

[landfillbaby]

remember to update the FontPatcher.zip release asset!

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🥇

Currently I'm fighting with firefox, it drives my crazy. On one machine there is no keyboard repeat, and emoticon selection is broken etc, while on another machine everything is ok. Firefox is synced. Also tried snap (normally I use debian packages), to no avail. That's the reason I'm a bit distracted, it is as awkward as being forced to use EMACS if you never did before ;-)

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It's a bug...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1880458

switched to firefox-nighty :-D

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Billing

Noto is by far the worst font, with 2 hours 21 minutes.

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cat bill | tr '\n' '\r' | sed -e 's!\r\([^\t]\)!\n\1!g;s/\r/ /g' | sort -n -k 3

Not perfect, but the needed manual changes are ok.

Font	CI minutes	#files
0xProto	4	1
Agave	4	2
AurulentSansMono	4	1
DaddyTimeMono	4	1
DroidSansMono	4	1
HeavyData	4	1
Inconsolata	4	2
InconsolataGo	4	2
NerdFontsSymbolsOnly	4	1
ShareTechMono	4	1
3270	5	3
Arimo	5	4
ComicShannsMono	5	2
Lekton	5	3
ProFont	5	2
ProggyClean	5	3
Tinos	5	4
AnonymousPro	6	4
BitstreamVeraSansMono	6	4
CodeNewRoman	6	3
D2Coding	6	2
DejaVuSansMono	6	4
EnvyCodeR	6	3
FantasqueSansMono	6	4
FiraMono	6	3
Gohu	6	4
Go-Mono	6	4
Hack	6	4
InconsolataLGC	6	4
Monofur	6	3
Monoid	6	4
Mononoki	6	4
SpaceMono	6	4
Terminus	6	4
Cousine	7	4
UbuntuMono	7	4
FiraCode	8	6
Lilex	8	6
MartianMono	9	6
Ubuntu	9	9
CommitMono	10	4
Hermit	10	6
IntelOneMono	10	8
OpenDyslexic	10	9
iA-Writer	11	12
LiberationMono	12	12
CascadiaMono	14	12
GeistMono	14	9
BigBlueTerminal	15	2
CascadiaCode	15	12
RobotoMono	15	12
SourceCodePro	16	14
UbuntuSans	17	16
IBMPlexMono	18	16
Hasklig	19	14
Overpass	19	20
Recursive	19	16
VictorMono	24	21
Meslo	27	24
IosevkaTermSlab	29	15
JetBrainsMono	35	32
MPlus	38	39
Iosevka	51	27
Monaspace	51	40
IosevkaTerm	52	27
ZedMono	60	30
Noto	141	181

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Changelog for 3.2.1

This bugfix release is mainly because of the Fira Code progress indicator glyphs. These are used by some applications, and usually could be used via fontfallback from any font (because the codepoints were un-occupied in the Nerd Fonts). But with adding more FontAwesome glyphs we utilized that codepoints for the new glyphs, breaking this common setup.
To fix that we keep these codepoints (there are 9 glyphs) free and un-occupied. So the usualy fallback scheme will continue to work.

Please see below for a list of codepoint that change with this release (which were new in 3.2.0), so I count that not really as breaking, because they were just some days ago (accidentally) introduced.

name	v3.2.0 codepoint	v3.2.1 codepoint
fa_less_than	EE00	EFC3
fa_less_than_equal	EE01	EFC4
fa_memory	EE02	EFC5
fa_microphone_lines_slash	EE03	EFC6
fa_money_bill_wave	EE04	EFC7
fa_money_bill_1_wave	EE05	EFC8
fa_money_check	EE06	EFC9
fa_money_check_dollar	EE07	EFCA
fa_not_equal	EE08	EFCB
fa_palette	EE09	EFCC
fa_square_parking	EE0A	EFCD
fa_diagram_project	EE0B	EFCE
this move:
fa_avianex	F0E6	EFC2
these swap:
fa_diamond	F219	F29F
fa_gem	F29F	F219
fa_cloudsmith	F16A	F167
fa_youtube	F167	F16A

⚠️ Major change

• Reorder some FontAwesome glyphs FontAwesome: Reorder some glyphs #1596

Bugs

• Remove Ubuntu 'fi' and 'fl' ligs Bugfix Ubuntu ligatures #1597

Improvements

• Add individual licenses to font database fonts.json for package maintainers Improve licensing info #1599
• Add sha256 checksums to release (commit c2cd3cd)

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• Precreate changelog (see above)
• Adjust package.json
• Trigger Release workflow, manually
• wait for actions to complete and do not tough repo before
• Edit changelog.md and also put onto gh-pages as new release
• Edit release draft comment with changelog
• Prepare casks Nerd Fonts 3.0.0 / 3.0.1 / 3.0.2 Release #1074 (comment)
  • Sync fork of https://github.com/Finii/homebrew-cask-fonts
  • PAT should be still ok
• Publish Release
• Trigger Cask workflow manually
• Create PR is cask fork
• Trigger FontPatcher.zip workflow manually

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Strangely the release workflow created 2 release drafts, and put one font (daddytimemono) in one and all other files in the other.
Manually copied the files over and deleted the stray draft-release.
🤔