NOTE: I’ve published my changes to this font as a new Tamzen font.

Tamsyn is the crispest monospace font I’ve ever seen — it doesn’t even need antialiasing! A new 1.7b version was released yesterday with tweaks to existing ASCII characters along with new additions to the Extended Latin characters set.

I like the following changes to the ASCII characters set in the new version:

• NUL - drawn as empty square; useful for programming
• 1 - underscore below makes it easier to recognize
• S - more streamlined and similar to lowercase s
• C, G, O, and Q - more roundness, hurray!

However, I dislike the following changes because they detract from the distinct styling of Tamsyn; particularly the uniform roundness of its characters:

• l - roundness is gone; it reminds me of Courier :(
• y - less round; too different from the round g
• w - roundness is gone; too sharp and jagged

Though I’m neutral about the following changes and will give them a chance:

• t - small loss of roundness and more centered now
• f - less round and the horizontal stroke is higher
• j - less round in the descender stroke