New on CTAN: panda
Date: October 9, 2025 8:14:17 AM CEST
samcarter submitted the
panda
package.
Version: 0.1 2025-10-08
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A package to estimate the blackness of fonts
Announcement text:
One challenge when drawing icons or symbols can be to make them blend in with the surrounding text. If their line widths look good with one font, they can stand out like a sore thumb with another font. The panda package provides tools to automatically adjust line widths etc. to fit in with the surrounding font.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/panda More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/panda
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
One challenge when drawing icons or symbols can be to make them blend in with the surrounding text. If their line widths look good with one font, they can stand out like a sore thumb with another font. The panda package provides tools to automatically adjust line widths etc. to fit in with the surrounding font.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/panda More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/panda
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
panda – A package to estimate the blackness of fonts
One challenge when drawing icons or symbols can be to make them blend in with the surrounding text. If their line widths look good with one font, they can stand out like a sore thumb with another font. The panda package provides tools to automatically adjust line widths etc. to fit in with the surrounding font.
| Package | panda |
| Version | 0.2 2025-10-09 |
| Maintainer | samcarter |