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Why does a programming language need its own font?
Yuck, the monospace font feels too dense, and dislike the serifs.
My favourite example and what I use daily, Office Code Pro Light: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sjrmanning/darkokai/screen...
Yuck, the monospace font feels too dense, and dislike the serifs.
I think the rendering is horrible too, with plenty of colour fringing and unevenness. The monospace font reminds me of the generic "Asian product manual font" - although the individual shapes are slightly different, it has a similar feeling to MS Mincho: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2013Jul/att-...
I found the proportional font really hard to read.
It's not as if Google can't do good typography:
https://fonts.google.com/about
So this seems like a rather self-indulgent and not wholly successful side project.
Why wouldn't they just use Google Droid? Strange.
Why does a programming language need its own font?
Elements of the proportional font, like the little foot on the 'a' remind me of Lucida Grande. Lucida Grade was the original OS X system font, which B & H also developed. This is not their first rodeo, its all about licensing.
I'll give it a red hot go and develop in it for a day, but those chunky slab serifs are much busier than the Menlo I've preferred since 2009.
Yuck, the monospace font feels too dense, and dislike the serifs.
It's a pity when newer typefaces don't have lighter weights — they look far better on high resolution displays than normal/regular weights, which look almost bold. My favourite example and what I use daily, Office Code Pro Light: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sjrmanning/darkokai/screen...
