Hack – A typeface designed for source code • Hacker News Board

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by andybak » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:13 AM UTC

At first glance - lower-case l and i are too similar (at least with my eye-sight)

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by Freak_NL » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:15 AM UTC

hollander wrote: post #7

What are Powerline glyphs?

Glyphs that are commonly used in status lines of terminal applications (editors, shell prompts) to delineate sections and to indicate the status of various things (e.g., the current character encoding, line-endings, git status, git branch name, etc.).

These glyphs include a number geometric shapes and symbols. By using a font that supports them with the proper metrics, the status line looks sharp and flawless.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by kowdermeister » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:15 AM UTC

I'm glad they built this: http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/playground.html

(click side-by-side to compare)

I think I'll switch to Fira Mono, Hack line height seems to be to condensed.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:15 AM UTC

All sorts of problems installing this on OSX; to be fair, the process for installing fonts on OSX is horrible anyway, but there are still errors.

Edit: I don't know why this got downvoted; if there's a way in which you want me to alter it to be more acceptable, please let me know.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by ToFab123 » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:16 AM UTC

How does this compare to consolas used by Microsoft Visual Studio and others? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by cannam » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:17 AM UTC

hollander wrote: post #7

What are Powerline glyphs?

I wondered that. This issue https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack/issues/1 points to https://github.com/powerline/powerline which appears to be some kind of status-line plugin thingy for Vim that uses certain glyphs for arrows and things. I haven't yet managed to find out which glyphs.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by crispyambulance » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:17 AM UTC

narrowtux wrote: post #5

jameskegel wrote: post #2

This is an infuriating experience on mobile. Show me white background and black text with your font. I'll be damned if I'm going to learn new paradigms in scrolling and waiting just to then notice I can't see anything anyway because it is a responsive 1080p screenshot of 12pt text.

Not even readable on a 15" laptop screen.

Well, the "specimen" link has it... https://source-foundry.github.io/Hack/font-specimen.html

But that screenshot on the splash page is utterly unviewable, especially inappropriate given that their subtitle is "Hack is hand groomed and optically balanced to be your go-to code face."

For a minute I thought I must be getting really old, but then it became clear it's just shrunk down. Nobody uses fonts that small, right? right?

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by lucideer » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:17 AM UTC

hollander wrote: post #7

What are Powerline glyphs?

Custom glyphs used to render bold easy-to-distinguish vim status lines or shell prompt lines to make terminal scrollback more parsable

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by ishtu » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:17 AM UTC

wolfi1 wrote: post #3

does it support ligatures? (like fira code?)

speaking of ligatures Iosevka and PragmataPro are my favorites (edit: spelling)

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by yummy » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:18 AM UTC

This, Consolas and Noto Mono are my favourites