Cantrip
A font family for Software Alchemists
Cantrip
A font family for Software Alchemists
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Cantrip
A FONT FAMILY FOR SOFTWARE ALCHEMISTS
Cantrip
Monospace fonts don't have to be boring.
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pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs!
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function main() {
const checkboxes = document.querySelectorAll(
'input[name="font-feature"]'
);
function updateFontFeatureSettings() {
checkboxes.forEach(cb => {
document.body.style.setProperty(
`--font-feature-${cb.value}`,
`${cb.checked ? 1 : 0}`
);
});
}
checkboxes.forEach((cb) => {
cb.addEventListener("change", updateFontFeatureSettings);
});
updateFontFeatureSettings();
}
if (document.readyState != 'loading'){
main();
} else {
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', main);
}
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Current version:
Why?
I've been fascinated by letter forms for a long time. My own
handwriting has slowly evolved to include a few intentionally unusual
ones - for fun. There's something inherently satisfying about leaving
exaggerated swooping forms on the page.
I also wanted to have a unique monospace font for my own use in
programming. As screen real estate crowds with an endless cavalcade
of side panels, I find most fonts' eighty-character horizontal space
to be far too wide at any legible point size. Additionally, many code
fonts focus primarily on syntax-specific ligatures, like joining an
"=>" into a single arrow glyph by default. I find it kind of
annoying for many of the same reasons as
outlined here. What I'd rather do with ligatures is focus on the
words themselves, giving individual words a more unique profile and
making the text more legible under certain circumstances.
Anyway, if you enjoy this, go ahead and use it. And if not... well,
I made this for myself and
no one is forcing you to use it. -
Default Features
Texture Healing
Off
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On
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This font has multiple glyphs at varying widths for certain letters.
Some (like "i") can be thinned and some can be widened (like "m").
It uses contextual substitution to find nearby pairs of thinnable and
widenable letters. The result is a font where a seven-letter word
will always be seven times the width of a single letter, but the
individual letters might be shifted to produce a more legible
outcome. Think of it like reverse-kerning. Instead of adjusting the
space between letters, it adjusts the letter widths themselves!
My Mission: min-max whimsy with calming pairs conjoined in Majestic
Karamja, cowling whole immolated bellmouths and awwing at imminent
bitter cattle militia. assertEmailFirewallWorksAndApiHasBeenEnabled()
The prismatic summary? findLowerCaseValueForAirConditioningApi()
Attempt All lower molars and injure no warrior's llama milk. These
immigrants worry about a merry tommorrow. Lemma: Shining at Twilight,
the Settlement's mime emoji amuse calm mommies walking.
Since creating this font, I discovered
Monaspace,
which dubbed this kerning alternative "Texture Healing".
Cantrip uses a much more visually extreme version of this technique,
both in terms of how much space it "borrows" and because it can do
this from up to five letters away.
Swash Caps, Ligatures & Other Contextual Alternatives
This font includes some alternate capitals that will appear at the
beginnings of words, and are specifically intended to make
camelCaseVariableNames "pop". There are also a few other alternate
glyphs that add flair if there's room to do so.
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NONE PIZZA WITH LEFT BEEF. Fool the ZZYZX Zoo's dazzling zebras.
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Internationalization Support
Cantrip contains glyphs to cover the
Latin-1 Suppliment
and
Latin Extended-A
Unicode ranges, covering a wide variety of languages. These glyphs
generally do not include variant width forms.
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║ Fried Ice Cream │ $5.95 ║ Rulltårta │ €2.30 ║
╟─────────────────┼───────╫─────────────────┼───────╢
║ + Sprinkles │ 60¢ ║ Pączki │ €1.43 ║
╟─────────────────┼───────╫─────────────────┼───────╢
║ Trifle │ £4.90 ║ Jelly Doughnut │ ¥400 ║
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It also includes a few glyphs commonly used by terminal applications,
including a full set of
Box-Drawing characters.
user@dev
🭬 ~/src/cantrip
🭬
./boxdemo.sh
┌─────────────────────┐ ┌─┬┐ ╔═╦╗ ╓─╥╖ ╒═╤╕
│ ╔═══╗ Cantrip Box- │ │ ││ ║ ║║ ║ ║║ │ ││
│ ╚═╦═╝ Drawing Demo │ ├─┼┤ ╠═╬╣ ╟─╫╢ ╞═╪╡
╞═╤══╩══╤═════════════╡ └─┴┘ ╚═╩╝ ╙─╨╜ ╘═╧╛
│ ├──┬──┤ │
│ └──┴──┘ │
└─────────────────────┘
A few alchemal symbols are also available.
Primes
🜍 Sulfur
🜔 Salt
☿ Quicksilver
Classical Elements
🜂 Fire
🜄 Water
🜁 Air
🜃 Earth
Planetary Metals
☿ Quicksilver
♄ Lead
♃ Tin
♂ Iron
♀ Copper
☾ Silver (☽)
☉ Gold
Other Elements
🜈 Aqua Vitae
🜕 Nitre
🜖 Vitriol (🜗)
♁ Antimony
⛢ Platinum
Optional Styles
Alternate Cursive Styling
Cantrip includes some alternative cursive glyphs to add a bit of
variance to words and make the overall sillouhette of some individual
words more unique.
Assist these styles of passive glyphs with some hints suggesting
there be some others in certain positions. These letters have some
heft, lifting four crafty shifts. Attempt twilight standing to atone
the two trips. Curse wise stylish stems, bizarre foil zeroing on
dazzled stages. Sift those Special Screen visuals: WISELY COUNTERSIGN
THIS CLASS OF SIXTY-TWO ACCURSED. React to these styles best: try
training a pterodactyl from Etsy instead.
-
ss01 adds cursive "s" and "t" glyphs in contextual
positions.
-
ss02 adds ligatures for these cursive glyphs when joined
with certain other characters.
I should apologize to my third grade teacher. I was really
annoyed that just a few years after learning the print alphabet, we
suddenly had to learn an entire second alphabet because "this is the
way you have to write everything when you're an adult." Why not just
teach this first, then and skip the print version? I never
actually had to use cursive for anything but my own signature (which
doesn't even resemble letters at this point) after taking the SATs
and literally everything in my professional career has been typed.
So cursive has been obsolete since the 1990s, but it actaully can be
kind of fun. I created this font as a sample of my own handwriting
and yes, I do randomly use cursive "s" characters even though the
letters otherwise don't connect.
Additional Flourish
ss03 enables some additional flourishes that make individual
words more unique, but can make the text less legible.
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foundries for pyrotechnics. Often, feverish shifters graft half
wayfound gruff woff files.
Proportional Width Glyphs
ss08 causes all width-adjustable characters to always adjust
their width, ignoring any requirements for matching letter pairs. The
result is that the overall font is no longer anything resembling
monospace. There are also a few glyphs specifically for this feature
(like G ->
G) that don't align at all with the
monospace grid. It also activates some kerning for specific letter
pairings.
ss08 Off
Amusement models true WIDEN MADLY BUMMED radii illuminate
trollish vowels I'DN'T'VE KNOWN it's two o'clock at Randall's
& Sally's respective discotheques. Cordially, they ALLOW GHOSTS.
ss08 On
Amusement models true WIDEN MADLY BUMMED radii illuminate
trollish vowels I'DN'T'VE KNOWN it's two o'clock at Randall's
& Sally's respective discotheques. Cordially, they ALLOW GHOSTS.
Alternative Numerals
This font uses "oldstyle" numerals by default, sized to match
lower-case letters. This gives each letter a more distinctive shape,
and I find them to be more legible overall. It does, however, make
random jumbles of characters look strange - hexadecimal literals
doubly so. Cantrip includes two options to handle this:
Off
0123456789 #F0E1D2C3B4A5 0xf0e1d2c3b4a5 0xDEAD_BEEF #7fff00
lnum
0123456789 #F0E1D2C3B4A5 0xf0e1d2c3b4a5 0xDEAD_BEEF #7fff00
ss16
0123456789 #F0E1D2C3B4A5 0xf0e1d2c3b4a5 0xDEAD_BEEF #7fff00
-
lnum swaps the digits for "lining" numerals that match the
upper-case letters instead.
-
ss16 adds special glyphs for a-f and A-F that match the
oldstyle digits, and substitutes these within text that looks like
a hexadecimal literal.
These styles also affect some non-numeral symbols that usually appear
adjecent to numbers, such as currency symbols.
Known Issues
On some text renderers, rounding errors mean the ligatures and thin -
wide pairs don't exactly match their unmodified counterparts. The
following lines should all be exactly the same width, with
the bars lined up at the end if everything is working properly:
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn║
mimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimi║
trtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtr║
Some terminal emulators ignore glyph widths entirely and render each
character on a grid. This is usually a good thing - it means higher
performance overall, and a font missing certain Unicode characters
won't end up with broken line widths. However, if Cantrip's thin-wide
substitution is enabled, this will look very strange.