It's pretty nice but almost looks stringy to me.
I'm extremely used to Dejavu Sans Mono for both terminal and code usage. Every time I try to switch to something else I wind up going back.
Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review
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Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review
#122The @ character in this font looks odd; the center loop is filled in, so it looks like something from Thai script. But no other glyph (in the ASCII range of the font) has this feature, so it is glaringly inconsistent.
I used this for a day, then ditched it. Back to a Courier derivative for me. There is a reason we have fonts with serifs: they provide visual clues to the eyes. Sans-serif is slick, but less readable. We might compare this to taking the high frequencies out of audio. The sound is "smooth", but lacks clarity.
Mononoki looks great in screen-shots; I might consider it again when I'm having some golden piece of source code printed 40 inches wide and framed for hanging on a wall. So long as that code doesn't contain @ symbols.
Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review
#123Not 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).
Maybe a plan on both "Mononoke" and "Monokai" (the other font)?
(Should be pun)
Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review
#124One day I'll come across a monospace font that will look & feel as good as the Bloomberg Terminal font.
Tracked it down (had to install Windows in a VM, install Bloomberg and then the font patch).
I agree it's a lovely monospace font for terminal work.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> I would have thought people use normal decimal numbers everywhere. US Government Bonds, the touchstone of the core Bloomberg user, are traded in 256ths of a dollar. The notation there, however, is not fractions. The number shown is whole dollars, then 32nds, then 8ths of a 32nd; except 4/8ths is shown as '+' Fun times...
Weird enough :) Thanks!
Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review
#126The @ character in this font looks odd; the center loop is filled in, so it looks like something from Thai script. But no other glyph (in the ASCII range of the font) has this feature, so it is glaringly inconsistent. I used this for a day, then ditched it. Back to a Courier derivative for me. There is a reason we have fonts with serifs: they provide visual clues to the eyes. Sans-serif is slick, but less readable. W…
I spent a bunch of time searching for good monospaced fonts as a result of this submission.
Luxi Mono stood out as very decent.
I settled on a font called Consolas.
I use it not only in Vim, PuTTY and Cygwin console windows on Windows, but ... in Gnome Terminal on Ubuntu.
Thank you, Microsoft!
Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've created a version of Fixedsys Excelsior (by permission from the original author) with programming ligatures. https://github.com/kika/fixedsys
Personally, I really dislike ligatures. Do you think many people use them? If there's a need, I would consider adding ligature fonts
Well, Fira Code, Monoid and Hasklig are quite popular fonts. I personally like arrows and fat arrows, they're so much better than their "composite" versions ( ), especially in some monospace fonts where dash is not in the middle vertically. "Shove" symbols ( >>= and <<= ) are also much nicer. The rest is I can live without :-)
Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review
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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.
I'm using Xorg/fontconfig. So rendering is absolutely different (both in options and results).
I find it odd that all options are on windows 7 given that these are PROGRAMMING fonts. In my experience, windows programmers are a very small minority, OS X and GNU/Linux being predominant.
Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are referring to the color scheme, not the font. The default font for your Sublime Text is probably either Monospace, Consolas, or Menlo Regular. Yes, this will confuse a lot of people who enjoy the default color scheme of Sublime. This is something completely different.
I use the Dawn x Github color scheme[0] and the Mononoki font. [0] https://github.com/AlexanderEkdahl/github-sublime-theme
I apologize - I did not notice the slight variance in spelling and made a hasty assumption.