Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code • Hacker News Board

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Post by imran3740 » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:15 AM UTC

infiniteseeker wrote: post #20

Slightly OT.. Does anyone know the font used in the screenshots here? https://github.com/owainlewis/emacs-color-themes

Looks like Anonymous Pro. http://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Post by joatmon-snoo » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:16 AM UTC

debaserab2 wrote: post #16

I don't know what it is about this font but it doesn't feel monospaced. Using this font I constantly keep second guessing myself as to where I've placed whitespace. Maybe I just need to use it more, I don't know.

Glancing at it I'm not sure if I would immediately be comfortable with it - it's a much narrower glyph than the type I'm used to.

I think the lower width:height ratio is part of your whitespace issue, combined with the seemingly liberal kerning.

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:16 AM UTC

infiniteseeker wrote: post #20

Slightly OT.. Does anyone know the font used in the screenshots here? https://github.com/owainlewis/emacs-color-themes

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Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Post by int_19h » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:19 AM UTC

prateek_mir wrote: post #8

It is a really good font, however, it just doesn't work for me on terminal & terminal based applications. Somehow I find that there is too little spacing between the lines.

There's one and only font that truly "works" in terminals IMO, and that's the classic VGA 8x16.

http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Post by dragonshed » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:21 AM UTC

joatmon-snoo wrote: post #22

debaserab2 wrote: post #16

I don't know what it is about this font but it doesn't feel monospaced. Using this font I constantly keep second guessing myself as to where I've placed whitespace. Maybe I just need to use it more, I don't know.

Glancing at it I'm not sure if I would immediately be comfortable with it - it's a much narrower glyph than the type I'm used to. I think the lower width:height ratio is part of your whitespace issue, combined with the seemingly liberal kerning.

> Glancing at it I'm not sure if I would immediately be comfortable with it - it's a much narrower glyph than the type I'm used to.

This. I occasionally try new dev fonts but so far I still end up using Menlo and/or Consolas.

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Post by irfansharif » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:27 AM UTC

imran3740 wrote: post #21

infiniteseeker wrote: post #20

Slightly OT.. Does anyone know the font used in the screenshots here? https://github.com/owainlewis/emacs-color-themes

Looks like Anonymous Pro. http://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro

it isn't exactly, lowercase 'i' differs very slightly. closer to Monaco Style in that respect.

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Post by ekvintroj » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:29 AM UTC

I feel this font more thin that I'd like, at least in linux.

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Post by shalabhc » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:32 AM UTC

I switched to this and it does look nice: https://snag.gy/rFSpig.jpg

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Post by fusiongyro » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:35 AM UTC

infiniteseeker wrote: post #20

Slightly OT.. Does anyone know the font used in the screenshots here? https://github.com/owainlewis/emacs-color-themes

I think it's Menlo, going off the lowercase 'i'.

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Post by be5invis » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:37 AM UTC

function_seven wrote: post #15

IgorPartola wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you dislike ligatures in your coding font? Just curious.

Not the parent, but I’ve had an issue where the fi ligature occupies just one character width, which looks very wrong with an otherwise monospace font. If the ligature is done right (resulting glyph is double-width), then I would probably like it.

Iosevka does not have `fi` ligature. The "Term" variant is used for some restricted environments, like some Linux would think that Iosevka is not monospace due to it has glyphs wider than one space.