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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 s9w »

hobarrera wrote: post #84
s9w wrote: post #36

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

Details on the antialiasing configuration would be nice. These look completely different from what my fontconfig renders (uglies, IMHO, but that's subjective). Maybe a bit more tweaking options, like the basic AA, hinting, etc would help.

All the screenshots are rendered with sublime text on Windows 7. There are the three basic options for no AA, default AA (ClearType) and gdipp.

What are you rendering on? What options in particular would you like to include? I know that different OSes have different font renders. And probably different programs, too. I'm always glad to make the site better, so I'm open for suggestions.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by unexistance »

hackuser wrote: post #64

From someting I prepared long ago, easily confused glyphs, depending on the typeface (if you aren't sure what one of the characters is ... perhaps try a different typeface?): * b69B80Oo * 1Il| * ij * 5S * 9gq * co * rn m * cl d * vv w * ., * :; * `' * ''" * ' and (curved/smart/curly single quotes) * " and (curved/smart/curly double quotes) * ~- * )]} * u and (mu) * v and (nu) * Capital vs. lowercase letters. wW xX zZ…

ha thanks :D used to decide on fonts based on 0Oo 1Il| only

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by s9w »

plaguuuuuu wrote: post #80
s9w wrote: post #36

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

some cool ones you could add * CP-mono * Oxygen mono * Fira Code

Fira Mono is in, which is basically thte same as Fira Code (plus ligatures).

I'll add the other two later today, thanks!

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by s9w »

jonhohle wrote: post #83
plaguuuuuu wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

some cool ones you could add * CP-mono * Oxygen mono * Fira Code

Also, Monaco, previously the default monospace font on Mac OS.

I think Monaco isn't freely available, right? I remember this being requested all the time, but there was some reason not to. Feel free to correct me though.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by madmalik »

bydo wrote: post #70
comex wrote: post #59

Not that it matters, but I wonder where the name came from. It sounds Japanese (although the first part is obviously inspired by 'monospace'), but 'mononoki' isn't a Japanese word. There are many ways it could be interpreted as a combination of two words, though, or it could be a corruption of 'mononoke' (a spirit).

It could be three words: mono no ki. Mono (as 物) is generally "thing," which doesn't really work, but we can assume it's being used as simply mono (in loan form, モノ), short for "monospace," here. No (の) is a particle indicating possession, and "ki" (as 気) is "spirit" or "essence" (with different kanji it could be quite a few other things; Japanese has a lot of homophones). So I suppose we could translate the name to…

Creator here. It just sounded nice and there is no deeper meaning. But your interpretation is great and might as well adopt it :D

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by viraptor »

s9w wrote: post #36

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

Something's weird in the code samples displayed for mononoki. The last and braces are highlighted there, but not for other fonts. Also the digits in the first two lines have different colours.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by epidemian »

jonhohle wrote: post #85
s9w wrote: post #36

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

I'm really surprised that in all of those fonts, Monaco, Monte Carlo, and ProFont Windows are the only ones with single story lowercase "a".

Some of them use a single story "a" for the italicized form. Consolas, Courier Prime, Envy Code R, Fantasque Sans Mono, Iosevka, Luculent and mononoki, and mabe others that i missed. You can check them out on the "Compare" mode on that page, "var" is rendered in italics :)

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by s9w »

viraptor wrote: post #97
s9w wrote: post #36

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

Something's weird in the code samples displayed for mononoki. The last and braces are highlighted there, but not for other fonts. Also the digits in the first two lines have different colours.

Yeah, that seems to be because I use sublime text for rendering. Sublimes Syntax coloring was updated recently, so the code is now interpreted and colored differently.

When adding a new font, I like to only render the new one because of the sheer number of screenshots, files and time it takes to redo everything. Currently the site contains 2569 individual images. But I'll look into it later today. Maybe I can fix it. It's distracting right now. Good eye for noticing though :D

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