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Re: Space Mono

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Post by madmalik » Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 8:01 PM UTC

andrewaylett wrote: post #36

mjs wrote: post #22

For some reason this contains fi and fl ligatures, which look pretty odd on a monospaced font: http://imgur.com/4tJkbaK

I'd not spotted that before reading your comment, and went looking expecting a double-width ligature, which would be quite cool. Squeezing the ligature into a single character width seems sub-optimal for a monospaced font.

I've done the same with my own programming font (mononoki http://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/ ) There is a difference between a ligature that a font may provide when you type in f and i and the unicode point 'LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI', that is in there for historical reasons.

the first one would make sense as double width character, the second one should be single width to show, that the unicode point 'LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI' is meant

Re: Space Mono

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Post by s9w » Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 8:12 PM UTC

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

Re: Space Mono

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Post by chaosmachine » Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

mjs wrote: post #22

For some reason this contains fi and fl ligatures, which look pretty odd on a monospaced font: http://imgur.com/4tJkbaK

I just created a variant that removes the ligatures, it's called "Space Mono NL":

http://tweetcompressor.com/temp/spacemono-nl.zip

Re: Space Mono

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Post by trav4225 » Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

Gracana wrote: post #3

draw_down wrote: post #2

Yep, that's a font.

And here I expected a disease.

I had space mono once... not fun.

Re: Space Mono

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Post by mcepl » Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 10:14 PM UTC

jck wrote: post #12

nichochar wrote: post #6

Am I missing something here? Is this a new font or something? Is it a recommended mono used for coding? Do people like it? I am pretty happy with Monaco

I've been using Monaco for years. Something about it is very pleasing to me. However, I'm sort of bored with it and haven't been able to find a suitable replacement.

FiraCode https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/ ;) ... I actually like it.

Re: Space Mono

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Post by coldtea » Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 11:30 PM UTC

cm3 wrote: post #48

coldtea wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Bitmap fonts preferred for crystal clear rendering and performance. Where by "crystal clear" you mean terrible jagged edges?

No, I mean zero smearing with/without anti-aliasing and pixel-perfect versions of the font that fit exactly into the raster. This is certainly a subjective matter, so it's moot to discuss why I fall into the crowd that finds pixel-perfect bitmap monospace fonts most pleasing. Thought it's telling if you see that even Mac users sometimes prefer misc-fixed: https://monkey.org/~marius/beautiful-fixed-width-fonts-for-o..…

>No, I mean zero smearing with/without anti-aliasing and pixel-perfect versions of the font that fit exactly into the raster.

I feel like this is not an issue with hi-dpi displays anymore (plus sub-pixel antialiasing and other niceties).

Re: Space Mono

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Post by anoother » Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 11:41 PM UTC

chongli wrote: post #41

lambda wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's not recommended for coding; it's a display font, to be used for headlines, titles, and the like, things where you want a little bit of stylistic flair. Here's the description from the link: About Space Mono is an original fixed-width type family designed by Colophon Foundry for Google Design. It supports a Latin Extended glyph set, enabling typesetting for English and other Western European languages. Develo…

it's not recommended for coding You're not kidding! Code displayed in this font looks downright bizarre[0]! [0] https://i.imgur.com/6HHFhCw.png

I think that looks lovely...

Re: Space Mono

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Post by rbanffy » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:59 AM UTC

s9w wrote: post #62

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

I'd fork it and add a sample of https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font (more like a terminal font than a programming one) if I had a Windows machine with Sublime Text on hand. Can you add it for me?

Re: Space Mono

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Post by maureenash » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 7:07 AM UTC

Space Mono is a monospaced font and basically suitable for code but does feature some questionable ligatures.A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space.Many resources like custom essay writing service (http://www.essayguardian.com/) is eager to facilitate the educational process for everyone and offers its reliable writing assistance with all types of written assignments.

Re: Space Mono

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Post by andrewaylett » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 9:04 AM UTC

madmalik wrote: post #61

andrewaylett wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd not spotted that before reading your comment, and went looking expecting a double-width ligature, which would be quite cool. Squeezing the ligature into a single character width seems sub-optimal for a monospaced font.

I've done the same with my own programming font (mononoki http://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/ ) There is a difference between a ligature that a font may provide when you type in f and i and the unicode point 'LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI', that is in there for historical reasons. the first one would make sense as double width character, the second one should be single width to show, that the unicode point 'LATIN SMALL LIG…

That's an interesting point. But in this case, I had typed 'fl' and 'fi', so surely your first clause applies?