Why does the ř (r with háček diacritic) in the "Europhilic" Czech text sample appear so different from the normal letter r? Is it intentional? It's quite jarring to me.
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/h6yNHCo.png
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#12Why does the ř (r with háček diacritic) in the "Europhilic" Czech text sample appear so different from the normal letter r? Is it intentional? It's quite jarring to me. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/h6yNHCo.png
strange. mine looks different (but ř is also a totally different shape) https://imgur.com/a/VpiXcGI (Firefox on Windows)
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#13Why does the ř (r with háček diacritic) in the "Europhilic" Czech text sample appear so different from the normal letter r? Is it intentional? It's quite jarring to me. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/h6yNHCo.png
strange. mine looks different (but ř is also a totally different shape) https://imgur.com/a/VpiXcGI (Firefox on Windows)
Probably your browser falling back to a default font. Sure that Courier Prime includes that symbol?
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#14I feel really old now that I realize we aren't talking about IMAP servers. Also slightly let down, since that would have been a fun blast from the past.
IMAP is much more recent than the Courier font, so you should feel young here.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
strange. mine looks different (but ř is also a totally different shape) https://imgur.com/a/VpiXcGI (Firefox on Windows)
Probably your browser falling back to a default font. Sure that Courier Prime includes that symbol?
probably. and I sure hope so, since they use it as an example.
but why in the world would you have that happen on a font demo site? use an image/svg. otherwise it's risking becoming a demonstration that it's unreliable/you don't know what you're doing. (not that browsers make this stuff easy... but still.)
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#16Why does the ř (r with háček diacritic) in the "Europhilic" Czech text sample appear so different from the normal letter r? Is it intentional? It's quite jarring to me. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/h6yNHCo.png
Nice eye, I noticed that too. However, on my browser, the "ř" looks like Times New Roman. Might be a bug with the site's fallback.
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#17After years of switching between programming fonts, I finally settled on SF Mono. Not planning to switch any time soon (and hopefully ever).
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#18I feel really old now that I realize we aren't talking about IMAP servers. Also slightly let down, since that would have been a fun blast from the past.
The Courier typeface actually predates the IMAP server by 40+ years!
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#19Does it allow me to hit the page count of my essay even easier?
You might be interested in Times Newer Roman. [1] It's like Times New Roman, but 5-10% wider so enables you to write 13% fewer words. [1] https://timesnewerroman.com/
Of course that's a thing! Although 13% doesn't sound like a significant amount. The trick I used in high school: Write the essay. If it's too short by 20-30%, increase the verbosity in every place you can until it's long enough. If it's short by more than 30% then you have bigger problems. If your essay only needs an extra page on a 15 page assignment, chances are you can add fluff and easily hit the 15 page mark.
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#20Probably good for full-screen writing. Anywho.
Feel free to add an opinion, I've been evaluating and whittling choices of fonts for code development:
So far Monaco and Source Code Pro seem best.
- Fira Mono https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Mono
- Hack https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
- Inconsolata https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata
- Monaco http://www.gringod.com/2006/11/01/new-version-of-monaco-font...
- Pragmata Pro https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/
- Source Code Pro https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro
I think monospaced, sans-serif, semi/bold, large punctuation and disambiguated look-alikes with antialiasing on works best on a low res laptop. Monospaced serifs seem to look better for code online.