Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

madmalik.github.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 129 posts

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

#33

Post by elcapitan »

maxaf wrote: post #24

One day I'll come across a monospace font that will look & feel as good as the Bloomberg Terminal font.

Interesting - had to look that up.

Here's a Quora post about it: https://www.quora.com/What-font-is-used-in-Bloomberg-Termina... . It's designed by Matthew Carter, the designer of Georgia and Verdana, he's an expert on screen-readable fonts.

The interesting thing is that one part of the optimization for finance was all those special fraction glyphs. I have never seen such weird fractions in actual use, I would have thought people use normal decimal numbers everywhere.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

#34

Post by tomsmeding »

jakub_g wrote: post #22
akamaka wrote: post #9

Does anyone else find most programming fonts to be overly heavyweight? I end up sticking with Courier New because of its light, thin lines, even though it's not a perfect font. Are there any other monospace fonts with light weights?

(going offtopic) Seems everyone has a different taste. I prefer medium-weight fonts, Courier is way too light for me. Do you work on a Mac BTW? I think there might be some massive rendering difference between Macs and other OSes. You can tell by reading people's blogs. Some authors use super narrow, gray-on-white font, which is generally unreadable on Windows, but I think it may look just fine on macbooks. Personally…

Indeed, rendering makes a huge difference between OS'es. Personally, I find the Mac (and iOS, those are equal I think) rendering quite nice, the Windows rendering reasonable, and the Linux rendering (at least in gnome, don't know about other wm's?) just ugly, but that's just my opinion. :P

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

#35

Post by maxaf »

elcapitan wrote: post #33
maxaf wrote: post #24

One day I'll come across a monospace font that will look & feel as good as the Bloomberg Terminal font.

Interesting - had to look that up. Here's a Quora post about it: https://www.quora.com/What-font-is-used-in-Bloomberg-Termina... . It's designed by Matthew Carter, the designer of Georgia and Verdana, he's an expert on screen-readable fonts. The interesting thing is that one part of the optimization for finance was all those special fraction glyphs. I have never seen such weird fractions in actual use, I would have t…

When I worked at Bloomberg, the origins of that font weren't a mystery. I used it on my company-issued Mac and loved it. Whatever they paid for it, the price was definitely worth it.

I don't suppose I'll ever find a suitable replacement, which also means that I jump at every opportunity to try out a new monospace font. I currently have 7 in my .Xdefaults, and these are just the ones I kinda-sorta liked and hadn't deleted.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

#37

Post by teddyh »

kbenson wrote: post #4

Monospace - This is an universal requirement for source code typography. It's not just an historic artifact from the olden days of terminals, but an useful convention to allow two dimensional structuring and highlighting differences on the character level. Well, since there are people that swear by using variable space fonts for programming, it's not necessarily a universal requirement. I agree it is a very useful co…

> there are people that swear by using variable space fonts for programming

This might include Bjarne Stroustrup – all the code examples in The C++ Programming Language is in a variable space font.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

#40

Post by s9w »

maxaf wrote: post #39
s9w wrote: post #36

I've added it to the programming font comparison at http://s9w.io/font_compare/

Thank you for this page! It's such a ridiculous time sink though. But thank you anyway.

Thanks! Time sink for wasting time on finding the perfect font? I think it's worthwhile. Programmers spend so much time looking at their font
Post reply on HN