character request: ∶

[illfygli]

Thank you for this very useful and beautiful font.
I'm using it as my system UI font, and I noticed on my lock screen clock that the ratio character, ∶, is missing.
Is that something that would make sense to add?

[arrowtype]

Hi @illfygli, thanks for reaching out! Sorry for my delayed response.

I’d be happy to add this character. In your opinion, should it look exactly like the colon, :, or should it be different in some way?

I have another, similar request to fulfill (#481), so I will try to make this happen in the upcoming days.

[illfygli]

The reason why it's used in the clock seems to be that ratio is more vertically centered than colon.
Compare these two:

X∶:X

assuming it's the same in the font you're seeing here. :)
When I look in Gnome's character picker, I can also see that it's higher above the baseline, but looks otherwise identical.

[arrowtype]

Thanks!

Compare these two: X∶:X

Actually, for me on macOS Catalina, the ratio glyph actually looks quite a bit smaller than the colon! Here’s what I see:

But yeah, I think it makes more sense to make this vertically centered with caps and figures. I’ll give it a try!

[illfygli]

Oh yeah, it is centered but smaller on my Android phone too:

With the San Francisco font it looks like it centers colon when it's sandwiched between numbers or uppercase letters:

12:34 ab:cd AB:CD

But for me with SF Pro installed, the ratio character is square instead of round and does not work like that, but is always centered. :)

[arrowtype]

Hi @illfygli, if you’d like to try it out, I have the ratio added to the latest font build, here:

https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/tree/c1a7672a267084871899fca6679b4a33aabbe429/fonts/ArrowType-Recursive-1.080

(I will probably make a proper GitHub Release soon, but I’m working on adding one more thing, first.)

[illfygli]

It looks really nice!
Thanks for adding it. :)

[illfygli]

Action shot on my lock screen:

[arrowtype]

Excellent, thanks for trying it out and letting me know, @illfygli! That lock screen is a beauty. :)