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For reading, I’ve come to admire Amazon’s new fonts: Bookerly, Ember, and Interface.
But I also find myself going back to good ‘ol Times New Roman for writing and reading most things. Runner-up: Georgia.
Other interesting serif fonts include:
Adobe Caslon Pro (used by The New Yorker) ITC Galliard (used by Library of America)
It's also highly customizable.
¹ https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/
white on black paragraph sample: http://malea.lacerta.uberspace.de/up/11a0e427-7717-4f25-a74d...
I disagree with iA'a philosophy. I like to write fiction with proportional serif fonts, often quite similar to fonts that would be used in print. Sometimes I change fonts to defamiliarize the text, which helps me read it with fresh eyes. The last couple years I've mostly been using the Mate font. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/mate
I don't know why, but that font is giving me some serious comic sans ms vibes.
Fun fact that people may not be aware of: not all glyphs in monospace fonts are actually the same width (provided the font supports enough of Unicode). Some glyphs are twice as wide, such as CJK/fullwidth characters in general. The Unicode standard includes a list of codepoint column widths—some zero (e.g. combining characters), some one, some two, some one or two depending on the context (the language).
Fun fact that people may not be aware of: not all glyphs in monospace fonts are actually the same width (provided the font supports enough of Unicode). Some glyphs are twice as wide, such as CJK/fullwidth characters in general. The Unicode standard includes a list of codepoint column widths—some zero (e.g. combining characters), some one, some two, some one or two depending on the context (the language).
a lovely example is uFDFD, ﷽ (single char)
I do not know of any monospaced fonts that include U+FDFD. I’m not at all sure what they would do with it.
What I find particularly amusing about U+FDFD is the broad range of widths and styles it can take. I see three wildly differing styles depending on the font employed (two long ones and one roughly square one).
I used to tell myself I couldn't code or write without the perfect font. I'd spend hours looking for it, and end up not getting any work done. When I finally did get around to actually working, five minutes in and I'd forget about the font completely. I have a (rather lazy) friend who's been asking me to help him start a blog for years now. I've promised to after he produces his first block of content, and he keeps s…
I recently converted my dynamic DB-driven blog to a static website. I did not predict how badly the added latency between having an idea, writing down the first flawed paragraph, saving a draft, reading what I wrote, then revising and publishing would reduce my writing output. Sure, I can write in Google Docs, but because it's not on my site one click away from being "out there" I am far less compelled to write down…
I then tried LaTeX and all problems vanished. Since I could not influence the output (at least without a lot of work) I simply gave up and started to "code my text". It was way faster than admiring my artful working all the time, I just complied the text from time to time and I was done.
This is how I see Markdown today.
I can recommend Iosevka¹. It looks a bit condensed, which takes time getting used to, but after that you have the benefit of monospaced, without it being so wide. It's also highly customizable. ¹ https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ white on black paragraph sample: http://malea.lacerta.uberspace.de/up/11a0e427-7717-4f25-a74d...
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What are your favorite fonts?
Personally, I use Terminus in my text editor and terminal. Bitmap fonts just look much crisper and cleaner to me.
I tend to like monospace fonts with a bit more rounded corners, which to me gives them a bit more "character" (one could almost say quirkyness) and readability.
good examples of this would be Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Monaco and to a lesser extent, Iosevka
I used to tell myself I couldn't code or write without the perfect font. I'd spend hours looking for it, and end up not getting any work done. When I finally did get around to actually working, five minutes in and I'd forget about the font completely. I have a (rather lazy) friend who's been asking me to help him start a blog for years now. I've promised to after he produces his first block of content, and he keeps s…
I recently converted my dynamic DB-driven blog to a static website. I did not predict how badly the added latency between having an idea, writing down the first flawed paragraph, saving a draft, reading what I wrote, then revising and publishing would reduce my writing output. Sure, I can write in Google Docs, but because it's not on my site one click away from being "out there" I am far less compelled to write down…
I'm going to move to WordPress and be done with it. No I won't have faster than lightning page loads anymore, but it'll be much lower friction to publish something.
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I recently converted my dynamic DB-driven blog to a static website. I did not predict how badly the added latency between having an idea, writing down the first flawed paragraph, saving a draft, reading what I wrote, then revising and publishing would reduce my writing output. Sure, I can write in Google Docs, but because it's not on my site one click away from being "out there" I am far less compelled to write down…
That’s why all my blog content resides in dropbox. One text file in the right place, and boom! A new post.
