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Sarcasm?
Why would it be sarcastic? The triple bar is also the operator for logical equivalence, which I guess is where the font authors got it.
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Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
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Re: Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
#52I like switching fonts every couple of years just to keep it fresh. My font right now is Iosevka: https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ A font generated from its source code. You can build your own variant. It has ligatures as well. I like that it’s not as wide as many other monospace fonts.
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#53It's $CURRENT_YEAR. Just let people write ≠ for ≠ already.
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#54I love this.
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#55> I frankly can't understand how tiny font people can function. It gives me a headache to even consider programming at anything less than 14 to 16pt and I am usually around 20pt. What? I can't understand how such large font people can function. I mean, how large (or dense) are your screens? Is that a Macbook thing? I'm at... something small. Hard to tell exactly, because on my laptop screen, all following fonts look…
What are you going to do when you get older and your eyes go through "the change"? You can keep your font sizes and wear readers, but then don't you have to move your head a lot to view the entire magnified image?
Any presbyopic developers care to chime in on what the experience is like? I'm 40, so mine could cross over any time now.
I hate 16:9 too. Please give me back the bottom of my screen that you chopped off.
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#56I figured I'd leave this here: I rebuild Iosevka with the Haskell ligature mode on default. I use this for a lot of things (although recently it's gotten no use as I've been working in Emacs).
Since it's a bit of a process to rebuild Iosevka, I just bundled the artifacts: https://goo.gl/gsFm8P
(Please excuse the redirection, this got a LOT of downloads and I have a big azure credit so I hosted it there and youw ould not believe what a pain it is to host simple linkable files on Azure).
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#57That www thing looks like shit. Just, no.
I agree. I've never used 'Fira Code' so it might actually be a good font.
But of the three screen shots offered, it looked like the worst and the www looked really bad.
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It transforms them from individual characters being put together to approximate symbols into the actual symbols. The act of joining together particular character combinations into more aesthetically pleasing forms is common and very old practice. It looks odd only because we're accustomed to seeing the individual characters due to display limitations inherited from typewriters and TTY machines.
I agree, except for the www ligature. It just looks odd to only have part of a domain name compressed.
The www is a bit artsy for my tastes as well, at least in a programming sense, but making a ligature of www isn't a terrible thing, IMO. It already almost creates its own ligature, especially when used with a serif font.
Heck, a lot of people I know will make a verbal ligature of www - something like 'dub dub dub'.
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#59Fira Code looks really nice. Shame Sublime Text doesn't support ligatures. Seems to be the most voted for idea for development: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/forums/1-general/