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Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by microcolonel »

This typeface is excellent, and it might replace Envy Code R for me. I've liked working with Envy, but it is nonfree and I don't have permission to distribute it with new glyphs. This is a bummer since I wanted more complete Hellenic and a full set of Cyrillic characters including Ukrainian extras, and was willing to draw the glyphs. This complete turnoff may be one of the main reasons I switch to Mononoki. Mononoki also looks far better on higher resolution displays, something I'm investing in right now.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by kazinator »

boondaburrah wrote: post #61

Cool, but what I really need to know is if two characters next to each other make a square, such that I can have CJK characters in the same line and not muck up the formatting.

I just got this to work in Windows with gvim. While the mononoki font doesn't have any Kanji in it, in Vim you can separately configure a font for the "wide" characters. I have:

  :set guifont=mononoki:h11:cANSI
  :set guifontwide=MS_Mincho:h11:cANSI
With this, East Asian characters show up fine. They don't look good next to the mononoki but the spacing is good. MS_Gothic looks a bit better, since it has the simplified, blocky kanji strokes.

Basically this mixture of two fonts, one for one-space-characters and another for the Unicode two-spacers, is up to your editor to get right.

I tried increasing the size of the guifontwide. No matter what size I pick, the alignment is correct; for excessively large sizes of the wide font relative to the regular one, the kanji just start to get jammed together. Basically you have to increase their sizes together to avoid the cramping.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

maxaf wrote: post #44
soperj wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you just continue to use the terminal font then? That Quora link ^ made it looked like you could get a copy.

I've considered doing just that, but it wouldn't be the right thing to do. I don't want to make money using something that technically isn't mine to use.

Out of curiosity, I just installed Bloomberg Professional (all 2GB+ of it; contrary to the Quora post, the font package won't run by itself, you have to install the entire program), copied the fonts, and uninstalled it. At no point was I shown any sort of licensing agreement or terms of service. I fell no moral obligation to refrain from local use of some fonts that Bloomberg offered me for free.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by JonathonW »

soperj wrote: post #52
maxaf wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've considered doing just that, but it wouldn't be the right thing to do. I don't want to make money using something that technically isn't mine to use.

What's the technicality? Typefaces are exempt from copyright protection.

Typeface designs are not copyrightable-- there's nothing stopping me from looking at (for example) Futura, redrawing it, and selling the redrawn version myself. (Coincidentally, Futura itself, as a popular pre-digital era typeface, has been independently digitized several times by different companies.)

Font files, meaning the specific binary files implementing a typeface on your computer, most certainly are copyrightable and licensable. If I were to purchase Myriad from Adobe, I couldn't just hand that font over to you-- that would be against the license agreement and would qualify as software piracy.

(This is all based on US copyright; YMMV if you're elsewhere.)

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