brew tap caskroom/fonts && brew cask install font-iosevkaIosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
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Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#72Very nice; I find Input Mono from Front Bureau to be a bit more readable, though: http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=20&language=python...
I love how you can choose your flavor by web app and just download resulting font. No need for building it by yourself.
You're right, that's nice. However, Input is proprietary and requires agreeing to a _rather restrictive_ licence to download and use...
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#73How does this in your opinion compare to "source code pro" from adobe?
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#74Is this available for VS Code?
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#75This font has been my daily driver for at least a year. It has some similarities with Pragmata Pro (my previous font), but has evolved to have its own personality now. I build a custom version of the font with this command-line: $ make custom-config design='v-tilde-low v-asterisk-low v-underscore-low v-at-short v-zero-dotted term' && make custom This gives me: - Disabled ligatures (I don't like them for my coding fon…
Why do you dislike ligatures in your coding font? Just curious.
Not the commenter you're asking to, but ligatures, to me, are a print thing. They are not nice on the computer screen. I'm kind-of fine with fi and ffi with variable-width fonts, but the rest is geekery (which is fine in itself, but not practical).
With print, you have to think about kerning and the flow of the ink, and the DPI of the printer, and many other variables, and some ligatures help with that (fi). Then there are some letter strings that appear consequently very often (e.g. st), in which case if you're cutting your fonts out of metal cubes, it's practical to have a single character for those strings. They are not, basically, of help to the reader, but instead to the typesetter / the machine. But you don't spend ink or metal on a computer screen, so the ligatures are just there for the sake of it.
With monospace fonts, well, because there's no kerning (each character takes up equal space), there's no way that normally any bits of the letters could coincide, so all the ligatures are forced and artificial there.
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#76My favourite programming font by far is Monaco, which is unfortunate as I develop on Windows.
I find most other fonts kind of jarring especially at larger sizes, it's hard to explain.
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#77I like the way it looks, but I discovered that while I can use SF Mono at 11 points, I have to bump up the size of Iosevka to 12 to avoid eye strain. The result was that while I could squeeze longer lines on screen with Iosevka, I get more lines with SF Mono. Back to SF Mono.
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#78Thank you for posting this!
I purchased the Essential version of PragmataPro™[1] because I love a narrower monospaced font for terminal windows and editors... allowing for a better use of horizontal screen real estate.
Having something that is this configurable—including the leading—is fantastic! I will definitely give it a try.
One thing that may make me stick with PragmataPro is the fact that Fabrizio has hand-optimized the screen display for over 7000 characters from 9pt to 48pt to guarantee the best possible readability... no weird rendering artifacts. It's amazing, but unfortunately many people are "put off" on the idea of paying for that kind of attention to detail.
In any case, thanks for offering this free variant of a customizable, narrow terminal font!
P.S. does it have the Powerline[2] characters?
[1] https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/ [2] https://github.com/powerline/powerline
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#79Daily user here. One of the few narrow monospace fonts. Previously, I've used pixel fonts like Dina or the proggy fonts suite, but with higher resolutions this has become unsustainable.
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Menlo is underrated. It'd be cool if it saw major longevity of use like Monaco before it.