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+OTF version of cascadia fonts
+=============================
+
+this is the cask that installs cascadia fonts, but not the dynamic ttf version
+
+as terminals on macos display text weird when using ttf
+
+to update: set versoin and checksum in gen.sh and run it
+
+depends on envsubst