Helping Patching Iosevka SS12 Variant Font

[kaykhan]

Hi friends,

i like to use a variant of Iosevka called Iosevka-ss12.

The current patched nerd font of Iosevka https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/Iosevka is not the variant im looking for.

Iosevka SS12

Iosevka Nerd Font
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/Iosevka

There are some difference within Iosevka SS12 that i like, that are not apart of the existing patched nerd fontIosevka Nerd Font.

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I patched the Iosevka SS12 font succssfully using the fontforge tool, but i noticed there are still a few problems.

1. Still has some Chinese characters (the patch did fix some)
2. Small icons

i would really like some help with patching this font.

[Finii]

Well, usually you do not need to self-patch just to get hold to one stylistic set.
The Iosevka Nerd Font contains all Stylistic Sets (that includes SS12), you just need to activate it in your application:

There is a good howto here:
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylistic-sets

I personally used https://github.com/twardoch/fonttools-opentype-feature-freezer to create a 'dumb' font for 'dump' applications.

If you really want to self-patch the SS12 variant directly and encounter problems we would need screenshots or logs of the process.
Usually small icons means you specified -s on the command line. Problems with Chinese glyphs ... might not be any. This also depends on the font-patcher version you used and on command line parameters. Usually if you see Chinese glyphs where you expected a symbol that means you use an obsolete codepoint. Check your symbol's codepoints with the https://www.nerdfonts.com/cheat-sheet.

Here is an example, just use the new codepoint. There are several projects out there that help you with the codepoint update.

Use F0826 instead of FD24