Time and weather font

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Right when I started I couldn’t find a decent monospaced font without a strike on the zero so I took my favourite at the time, Roboto Mono and edited it in FontForge.

The face by @petruuccios with watch hands as font characters got me thinking of other uses so the hunt began for a half decent weather set in SVG format. I found these: Free Set of 188 Weather Icons | PNG and SVG Formats

SVG images can be imported as font glyphs so I set about it on my font. I made some edits in Inkscape so I had distinct few/scattered/broken clouds.

Now, If I am using the font anyway for other text fields, I don’t need to import images for the various weather states. I can just use: $#WCCI#==1?ƀ:$$#WCCI#==2?Ɓ:$$#WCCI#==3?Ƃ:$$#WCCI#==4?ƃ:$$#WCCI#==9?Ƅ:$$#WCCI#==10?ƅ:$$#WCCI#==11?Ɔ:$$#WCCI#==13?Ƈ:$$#WCCI#==50?ƈ:$

I’ll make a new datestamped version for changes to the font I make so that if anyone does use it they know what is what.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6lpkvfookrhpms8chjiea/RobotoMono-Bold-Bode_202411240100.ttf?rlkey=d165zoq7fyggqvkb02doxs5f9&dl=0
I have added a bunch of other images in there and using Word->Insert Symbol after installing the font in Windows will get you the copy/paste character:
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I think it works OK.

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That is great! It will make weather look much better.

And if you’re into LCD, this set of fonts also includes an weather font set to simulate LCD.

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Niiice! DSEG acquired.

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Nice Font

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You guys are amazing . Topic Bookmarked .

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Thank you so so so much. This is a godsend! My question is, how does one use full colour weather icons using this method?

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I think you meant like golden sun, blue rain drops, gray shaded clouds etc.
With facer we can not use the colored fonts (even those have limited color resolution), only BW .ttf

If the icons were cut out from square boxes, the font could be used as mask above colorful background, but that is something different.
Wheather HD px | FontStruct

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I did a bit of research here and found a few sites where it is easier to find free weather images than sites that use the free keyword because they have one image in the forest of paid. You can drop the stock weather element in and replace each of the images with your own I think. They have static ones too.

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