Bug#950152: RFP: fonts-jetbrains-mono -- a typeface for developers

[Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : fonts-jetbrains-mono
  Version         : 1.0.2
  Upstream Author : Philipp Nurullin
* URL             : https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono
* License         : Apache-2
  Programming Lang: TTF
  Description     : a typeface for developers

The URL above also has a "source" directory which ships "FontLab 6"
files (VFC and VFJ):

https://help.fontlab.com/fontlab-vi/Font-Formats/

I am not sure those can be edited with free software, but I am
wondering if the TTF is sufficient to fulfill DFSG requirements.

I don't have a good long description - kind of hard to do that by text
when fonts are so visual. 

But the main website does give a very good idea of the thing:

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

There is obviously quite a few similar "programmer" fonts out
there. Looking in my archives, I find this in Debian:

 * fonts-firacode: ligatures
 * fonts-hack-*: no ligatures
 * fonts-hermit: no ligatures, smaller
 * fonts-monoid: ligatures, feels much "thinner" than jetbrains

Those are also "programmer fonts" that caught my interest but somehow
didn't land in Debian yet:

 * sudo: https://www.kutilek.de/sudo-font/ personal project, no
   ligatures
 * Iosevka: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ ligatures, multilingual

... so that's already quite a few more than I expected,
actually. Maybe there's no room for this in Debian? But I'm curious to
hear what others think of this...

Thanks!