hangsiahong / terminex

Slightly bolder and more legible version of IBM Plex Mono, with box drawing characters

Terminex

This is a version of IBM Plex Mono made more usable in terminals and code editors with three additions:

• Slightly darker weight (based on IBM Plex Mono Text).
• Uses slashed zero instead of dotted zero.
• Dash is slightly longer.
• Addition of box drawing characters from Adobe for use in terminals.

Aside from these changes, there is no difference in the actual glyphs between these fonts and the original version of IBM Plex Mono - they mainly just contain metadata modification.

Installation

Install the TTF files in this repo, and reference in your application as "Terminex"

Source

1. Clone https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/box-drawing and run it from the command line to generate UFO of box drawing characters.

2. Download latest IBM Plex TTF files from: https://github.com/IBM/plex

   • IBM Plex Mono Text
   • IBM Plex Mono Text Italic
   • IBM Plex Mono Bold
   • IBM Plex MOno Bold Italic

3. Open each source TTF file in FontForge.

4. To apply box drawing characters:

   • Select Element > Merge font...
   • Select the UFO folder.

5. To swap dotted zero for slashed zero:

   • Select View > Go to...
   • Go to "zero.alt1". Copy/paste into "zero".

6. To swap hyphen with en-dash:

   • Select View > Go to...
   • Go to "endash". Copy/paste into "hyphen".

7. Rename meta info:

   • Select Element > Font info...
   • Adjust family, name, weights so that all belong to family "Terminex".