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-# font-new-heterodox-mono
-Monospaced adaptation of Old Standard TT
+# New Heterodox Mono
+
+Monospaced adaptation of Old Standard TT.
+
+Some years ago I made an adaption of the beautiful open-source font _Old Standard TT_ into a monospaced font
+for my own use. I have been using this a lot as my programming font but haven't got time to improve it. It is
+not perfect but since there are not much free choices of modern-style serifed monospace fonts (besides the
+Computer Modern family) I decided maybe I should upload it in case someone finds this useful or wants to
+help improving it.
+
+I felt that it is very much non-"standard" in the computer science/programming community
+to use such a modern-style typeface in programming, so I named it "New Heterodox" as opposed to "Old Standard".
+Ironically, "Old Standard" was named as opposed to "Obyknovennaya Novaya" ("New Standard"), and now in
+the age of computers, the old-time "New Standard" has become "New Heterodox", as in many other things in
+design.
+
+The typeface currently only have ASCII character set and there may be some slight inconsistencies in the
+curves. For the purpose of programming it is pretty usable.
+
+Further improvement may be to fix the anchors, make consistent the serif width, add back the
+pre-composed accented latin glyphs, add blue values etc. in the OS/2 table (I think emacs uses
+the blue value?) and maybe add italics and bolds. Also greek support would be nice - but adapting
+the greek letters to monospace may be quite some work.
+
+
+
+Here is a screenshot. Obviously nowaday this type of font for programming may not be everyone's cup of tea...
+Anyway I wish someone who shares the same tastes can take over the development of this and make it a full-fledged
+programming typeface - as there are no free alternatives on the market.
+
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