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Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

#121
Reporting a bug here as I see that the author is around:

For some reason, switching fonts does not work on my browser.

Firefox 64.0.2, windows 10 64 bits

No error message in the console, and ublock origin plugin didn't block anything on the page.

Opening the same page in Google Chrome worked well: font changes in the demo code whenever user clicks on a font in the list.

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

#123
post #121

Reporting a bug here as I see that the author is around: For some reason, switching fonts does not work on my browser. Firefox 64.0.2, windows 10 64 bits No error message in the console, and ublock origin plugin didn't block anything on the page. Opening the same page in Google Chrome worked well: font changes in the demo code whenever user clicks on a font in the list.

Working for me on the same environment

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

#124
post #44

I'm surprised that the list doesn't mention consolas. It ships default with visual studio and it's so good that I use it on arch Linux as my terminal font and with intellij. It was designed with programming in mind and has some nifty characteristics like a slash through zero. This list also misses out on 'operator mono' which is a well thought out font for programming.

Thanks for mentioning it! I just compared Consolas with the default Menlo along with Hack, and I do like the roundedness in Consolas.

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

#125

My favourite for a few years now is a commercial font, Triplicate. It’s a true serif monospace font; every other monospace font I’ve encountered that is labelled “serif” is actually a slab serif. It has a proper italic face as well, which is a less rare, but it’s a functional italic face rather than ornamental. It comes with some interesting variants, most notably Poly which is not fully monospaced, adjusting the wid…

That website is possibly the most beautiful and ergonomic website I've ever used.

And it's made with Racket! The author of the font has written a publishing platform called Pollen[1]. I'd recommend you to check it out!

[1]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

#128

I really enjoy the Nerd Font pack, as it adds all kinds of symbols that are great for augmenting text editors like Vim: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts Then your editor can look like this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/ryanoasis/vim-devicon... It's not all just for looks. For example you get icons for file types so it's also useful. My favorite is the Nerd Font version of Droid Sans Mono.

Also a huge fan of the nerd font project!

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

#129

I am fascinated of how important font is for some, I tend to stick with the default font and not think about it. The only time I have really noticed a font is libre font (or what its name was) after installing LibreOffice, I did uninstall LibreOffice and bought MS Office instead because of that font

So instead of just chosing another font for the default style, you decided to thrash LO and buy MS Office?

That seems a bit of an overreaction, no?

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