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Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

#91

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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).

Yeah iosevka is missing a few ligatures I'd like but they slowly get filled out over time and it had the ones I use the most.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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Hack isn't all that great. Here are tons of alternatives: https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface (Use Input)

WHY does codeface not show ligatures? They only have them in the mono space example? Hack is my second favorite, but just the last year I switched to Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures. I like the zero being a slash as opposed to a dot but the rest is spot on for me. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#fira-code-monospaced-font...

It does. We just added it. https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface/pull/163

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

#97

I'm going to be honest... After a while, all of these programmer fonts start to look the same to me.

I know. I just use one of the available monospace fonts on whatever OS I'm using (there's always at least one). I'm just too lazy/apathetic to bother with installing one of these things.

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

#98

I'm going to be honest... After a while, all of these programmer fonts start to look the same to me.

They have a nice playground which lets you try different fonts. Give it a go: http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/playground.html (click once on the fonts dropdown then use the down arrow to compare them quickly)

Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code

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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.

Here: http://source-foundry.github.io/Hack/font-specimen.html

Amusingly, with JavaScript off that displays a proportional serif font!

Shouldn't it be possible to download a font via CSS only?

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