In my emacs setup, I use Hermit (a font for programmers, by a programmer) https://pcaro.es/p/hermit/
For programmer art that looks not bad at all!
Hack: A typeface designed for source code
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Re: Hack: A typeface designed for source code
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hack has greater leading compared to Fira. I notice it when viewing in either Xcode, TextMate or Android Studio.
Whoa, really? Fira already has a much larger line-height than nearly any other mono font I've used.
They've reduced the line-height quite a bit in one of the more recent versions.
Re: Hack: A typeface designed for source code
#203No one has yet mentioned the ultimate hacker font -- Glass Tty VT220: http://christfollower.me/misc/glasstty/ Then there's UW ttyp0 for those who still prefer their fonts bit-mapped: http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/ And UniVGA, an emulation of the VGA font that provides much of Unicode (useful for a little Turbo Pascal nostalgia trip with an appropriate color theme, or the FPC IDE): http://www.inp.nsk…
ttyp0 is way better than Terminus, which is so popular among Linux/Unix people. But if the world ever goes HiDPI, I guess bit-mapped fonts will die out.
Re: Hack: A typeface designed for source code
#204This started quite a conversation, looking at the stats in Codeanywhere it seems at a first glance that Inconsolata is the most used (although true this is the default font). Will do a detailed analysis and report my findings :)
Re: Hack: A typeface designed for source code
#205Well, Hack and many other fonts like SCP is a bit too wide for Asians, since they may mix source code with 文字 like this. That's why I made Iosevka [1]. [1]: http://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/
Thank you for this, I really, really like the compactness of it.
Not surprised to see Pragmata as an inspiration, I bought that font a few years ago when it was around US$100, and I still love it today, I probably use it 80% of the time :)
Re: Hack: A typeface designed for source code
#206No one has yet mentioned the ultimate hacker font -- Glass Tty VT220: http://christfollower.me/misc/glasstty/ Then there's UW ttyp0 for those who still prefer their fonts bit-mapped: http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/ And UniVGA, an emulation of the VGA font that provides much of Unicode (useful for a little Turbo Pascal nostalgia trip with an appropriate color theme, or the FPC IDE): http://www.inp.nsk…
That's ludicrous. You can get better scanlines by using Cathode or Cool Retro Term, and the latter comes with the beautiful 3270 font that stands upon the long clean design heritage of IBM's 360/379 line. This beautiful font, by the way, you can take for a spin on any civilized operating system by simply typing `apt-get install 3270font`. Go, try it.
http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
;-)
Re: Hack: A typeface designed for source code
#207No one has yet mentioned the ultimate hacker font -- Glass Tty VT220: http://christfollower.me/misc/glasstty/ Then there's UW ttyp0 for those who still prefer their fonts bit-mapped: http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/ And UniVGA, an emulation of the VGA font that provides much of Unicode (useful for a little Turbo Pascal nostalgia trip with an appropriate color theme, or the FPC IDE): http://www.inp.nsk…
ttyp0 is way better than Terminus, which is so popular among Linux/Unix people. But if the world ever goes HiDPI, I guess bit-mapped fonts will die out.
I tested the 3270 on HiDPI displays (Mac and Linux) and it was glorious. Seriously.
Re: Hack: A typeface designed for source code
#208As with most typefaces, i fail to see how this is better than Comic Sans.
Re: Hack: A typeface designed for source code
#209I desperately want to find a new code font to love but I always return to Consolas.
As a retro-computing geek who had an early contact with IBM 3278 terminals, I am very fond of their font. So much, in fact, I recreated it based on earlier bitmaps that trace their history back to a student who copied it pixel by pixel from a real terminal. May not be your piece of cake, but you can try it:
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
When I can't use it, Terminus is a favorite. A long time ago I added a central dot to Luxi Mono's 0 and used it as my terminal font for a long time.
Re: Hack: A typeface designed for source code
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
They do acknowledge the source of the font: "Hack has deep roots in the libre, open source typeface community and includes the contributions of the Bitstream Vera & DejaVu projects." It's a bit disingenuous though. I'd call Hack a straight copy of Deja Vu Sans Mono, with a few very minor tweaks. On Linux using the TTF fonts I can't even see a difference in line height: http://i.imgur.com/wxTr0at.png http://i.imgur.co…
Adjusted and combined your examples to a gif. The one with the red square is the Hack font. http://i.imgur.com/8SqL6mT.gif Aside from '_', 'i', '0', many of the changes are so minuscule that it feels more like a change for the sake of change. Some however are nice, like the parenthesis placement, cleaner 'r'. One thing I really don't like is the change to a serif-style comma. They've probably argued that it improves…
> Some however are nice, like the parenthesis placement
I see the parentheses as problematic on their own. When I read the functions that don't have any arguments, it looks like they have one space character within the parentheses!