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Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by noir_lord » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:38 AM UTC

dna_polymerase wrote: post #29

I prefer Iosevka, which was trending a while ago: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

I have my own build of iosevka with my name in it.

I've yet to find a better condensed programming font with ligatures, it's close to perfect already (for me).

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by masklinn » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:46 AM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #31

dna_polymerase wrote: post #29

I prefer Iosevka, which was trending a while ago: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

I have my own build of iosevka with my name in it. I've yet to find a better condensed programming font with ligatures, it's close to perfect already (for me).

When I looked at ligatured fonts a few months back I went with Monoid instead, it fits my uses better, and I was especially attracted to the triple-equal ligature for JS contexts (in Monoid, `===` is rendered as a long ≡ making it visually very distinctive from assignment or regular equality).

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by _pmf_ » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:52 AM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #31

dna_polymerase wrote: post #29

I prefer Iosevka, which was trending a while ago: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

I have my own build of iosevka with my name in it. I've yet to find a better condensed programming font with ligatures, it's close to perfect already (for me).

> I've yet to find a better condensed programming font with ligatures, it's close to perfect already (for me).

Agreed. It's narrow, but does not sacrifice readability.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by jstewartmobile » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:52 AM UTC

dna_polymerase wrote: post #29

I prefer Iosevka, which was trending a while ago: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

Ditto. I love Iosevka Slab. I switch between it and VT Gothic.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by ConfucianNardin » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:54 AM UTC

Comparison page with quite a few programming fonts, Hack among them: http://s9w.github.io/font_compare/

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by SeanDav » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:56 AM UTC

Lower case "i" and "l" are just way to similar. In addition lower case "i" looks a lot like a "t" to me. This is not a good sign for a coding font.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by wut42 » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 9:59 AM UTC

creichenbach wrote: post #23

For those feeling adventurous: Input[1] is a proportional font made for coding. It's also highly customizable. [1]: http://input.fontbureau.com

I've been using it since about a year -- I love it. The Serif/Sans Serif versions are also quite good.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

#38

Post by houzi » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 10:03 AM UTC

Pleasing to the eye, but too wide for my taste. I like to have divide a 1080p screen into three columns of 80 chars width, and most fonts are too wide for this.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by userbinator » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 10:06 AM UTC

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.

Turn off JavaScript and this page becomes less stylish, but more readable.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Post by enobrev » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 10:10 AM UTC

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.

Pretty infuriating on the desktop as well.

I scrolled down for an example, saw the screenshot of tiny text and assumed that either I've gone blind or that screenshot is shit; I'm going with the latter. Maybe it looks better on a computer with an apple on it, but not on ubuntu / chrome.

Hack seems to be a nice font, otherwise. I don't know that I would switch to it as my primary, but I'll gladly add it to the collection of 20 or so "programming fonts" i seem to have collected over the years.

Does anyone program in 1: http://source-foundry.github.io/Hack/font-specimen.html