Rework on monospace: Slashed zero and real monospace

[ekaitz-zarraga]

Hi,

I changed the fonts to have slashedzero by default instead of the standard zero and I forced the fonts to be detected as monospaced.

Best,
Ekaitz

[ekaitz-zarraga]

Pull request is not valid yet because it doesn't follow the contribution rules but consider it a suggestion to the font as I'm unable to install fontlab and I don't have any way to follow the instructions.

It should result in a font that:

1. Is detected as Monospace in linux system. This means every glyph should have the same width. I made this changing every glyph's width to 1300, which is the width that standard characters have. Looks like some others have not a fixed width.

2. It would be nice to use a slashed zero as default, but this is a design detail that you might disagree with.

I'll leave this PR open even it's not valid to use it as a reference.

[hardyoyo]

This is a great PR. I've been running b612 as my main IDE/editor font for well over a year, and only today realized that the zero is completely the same as the O... I can't believe I never noticed, and glad it hasn't bit me yet. I'm going to switch over to the @ekaitz-zarraga fork, for now, but I really think you should merge this pull request. It looks like it's failing a check for a CLA?

[ekaitz-zarraga]

@hardyoyo since the release they didn't really pay attention to any request, that's why I started the fork... It's sad, but at least we have something.
Thanks for the nice words!

[acbits]

This is a great PR. I've been running b612 as my main IDE/editor font for well over a year, and only today realized that the zero is completely the same as the O... I can't believe I never noticed, and glad it hasn't bit me yet. I'm going to switch over to the @ekaitz-zarraga fork, for now, but I really think you should merge this pull request. It looks like it's failing a check for a CLA?

I am not sure how you tolerated it that long :-) I tried it on Linux at 69ppi(my monitor) and I see terrible color fringing. This could be a freetype issue/limitation.

After trying over 50 programming fonts, Consolas remains the best hinted font IMHO. Of course, if you have a monitor with ~ 150ppi, then it is a moot point. You could use any font.