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-# Comic Mono
-A monospaced font based on [Shannon Miwa](https://github.com/shannpersand)’s [Comic Shanns](https://github.com/shannpersand/comic-shanns).
+# This project is a fork of dtinth/comic-mono-font
 
-## Changes from Comic Shanns
-1. All glyphs have been adjusted to have exactly the same width (using code based on [monospacifier](https://github.com/cpitclaudel/monospacifier))
-2. The glyph metrics have been adjusted to make it display better alongside system font, based on [Cousine](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cousine)’s metrics.
-3. The name is changed to `Comic Mono`.
-4. A bold version of the font is generated using [FontForge’s Embolden](https://fontforge.github.io/Styles.html#Embolden) 
+That project was to create a font. This project is designed to use the generate.py script and use it to take a proportional spaced font and make it a mono spaced font.
 
-I have no font creation skills, just a software developer. The original font, [Comic Shanns](https://github.com/shannpersand/comic-shanns), is patched using a Python script, [`generate.py`](generate.py).
+This may be a very silly idea.  I have got the script to work to generate a mono spaced font from a proportional font.  The key is tweaking the height and width so the fonts look nice.
 
-## Usage
-You can download it and install it like any other font.
+## Dependencies
 
-## What does it look like?
-Like if someone made a dumbass version of Comic Sans that is monospaced.
+Python 2
 
-![image 1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4615568/44279591-c9909780-a206-11e8-9e1d-40db6d6db77e.png)
-![image 2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4615568/44279592-ca292e00-a206-11e8-9278-4a7566425c0c.png)
-![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4615568/44279593-ca292e00-a206-11e8-9b25-a4533b50d471.png)
+The python bindings for font forge
+
+This link may help you install the bindings
+
+[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36508944/install-fontcustom-fontforge-in-ubuntu](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36508944/install-fontcustom-fontforge-in-ubuntu)
+
+## How to use the script
+
+Install the Dependencies
+Put the proportional font you are going to convert in the vendor directory
+Put the reference font you are going to use in the vendor directory
+Edit the script.  See bellow
+Make the script executable 
+Run ./generate.py 
+Your normal font and bold font will be generated and should be found in the same directory as generate.py
+The fonts can now be installed.  
+Depending on the width and height you set will affect what the font actually looks like.  It could look nice or it could look awful.
+
+## You need to edit the script.  Here is the list of things you need to change:
+
+### Change the following two lines to the script to the font you are going to convert and the reference font
+font = fontforge.open('vendor/comic-shanns.otf')
+ref = fontforge.open('vendor/Cousine-Regular.ttf')
+
+### Change the integer value the larger the number the wider the font
+target_width = 510
+
+#### change number in adjust_height to make font shorter or taller
+adjust_height(font, ref, 0.875)
+
+### change to desired font name
+font.fontname = 'ComicMono'
+### change to desired full name
+font.fullname = 'Comic Mono'
+#change to desired file name
+font.generate('ComicMono.ttf')
+
+### Bold section
+### change to desired font name
+font.fontname = 'ComicMono-Bold'
+
+### change to desired full name
+font.fullname = 'Comic Mono Bold'
+
+### change to desired file name
+font.generate('ComicMono-Bold.ttf')
+
+## Notes:
+What is the reference font for?
+Taken from Comic Mono font README.md
+The glyph metrics have been adjusted to make it display better alongside system font, based on Cousine’s metrics.
+You could use a different font as the reference as see how it changes the font.
 
 ## License
 It is licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE).