Siji Icons (really nice windowing icons)

[math0ne]

I really like the look of these icons and they have really good windowing icons which is something that nerd fonts is missing right now:

https://github.com/stark/siji

[ryanoasis]

@math0ne Thanks for the suggestion! So this would be another new glyph set. I can see your point regarding this having some good icons

[FlorianFranzen]

There is a also a TrueType fork of it: https://github.com/fauno/siji, which should be easier to integrate.

[ryanoasis]

@FlorianFranzen Yes thanks that would be easier and faster to add 😄

[jzbor]

So is there an update to this? What would be needed to make a PR?

[yuceltoluyag]

nice to see siji font lovers here :) 5 years later I still have hope inside me <3 @ryanoasis

[Finii]

So is there an update to this? What would be needed to make a PR?

From my perspective what needs to be solved is the on which codepoints to put these.

In the ttf it occupies 0xE00 - 0xE276 (with no gaps).

Compare https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki/Glyph-Sets-and-Code-Points#overview to see what has already been taken.

Then there is a limit of possible codepoints unicode blocks that we can utilize because only some are 'free' [1]. You see that there is not much space left in the PUA, especially for a set containing ~0x300 symbols. A possibility would be to use PUA-A instead, but then maybe we should have a decision on Material Design (and its relocation) first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_block

And then, for this concrete font ... the glyphs have a distinct low-res pixelated look:
Is this really an improvement over similar icons that we already have, that are vector-ish?

[Finii]

This will of course break when Siji is incorporated...:

The question is, will there be any audience left if they have to change their Stlarch setup? Probably not?

[Finii]

Closing because transferred to #1095

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