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Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

#11

Post by JasonSage »

Can somebody explain to me why narrow programming fonts seem to be trending so strongly lately? I really don't understand, personally.

I have a much, MUCH harder time reading a narrow font.

I also find it aesthetically inferior to a "non-narrow" font so much that even if it was as readable or more, I feel like I would have a hard time getting myself to use it.

Is there some other aspect that people like, such as being able to work in a narrower editor window? If this is purely subjective, why aren't non-narrow fonts also circulating on the front page every week?

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by delinka »

JasonSage wrote: post #11

Can somebody explain to me why narrow programming fonts seem to be trending so strongly lately? I really don't understand, personally. I have a much, MUCH harder time reading a narrow font. I also find it aesthetically inferior to a "non-narrow" font so much that even if it was as readable or more, I feel like I would have a hard time getting myself to use it. Is there some other aspect that people like, such as bein…

Fitting more on the screen horizontally. Wrapped lines are a different cognitive load.

I personally don't care for the narrower fonts, but I can see the utility.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by jypepin »

I appreciate the effort, the font looks solid, but I really don't understand the new trend of using italic in the code syntax. It seems like every trendy frontend engineer has their sublime text or vscode set up with a font that uses italic for imports, comments, etc and I really don't see the appeal.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by big_chungus »

spraak wrote: post #5

It's a cool effort but I guess it's not for me — I much prefer = over ≥ and !== over ≠ etc. because I find it more explicit and readable than a condensed form.

Yeah, I tried ligatures and never liked them. If I type them as two, I'd like them to appear as two; I never liked it when I back-spaced on what _looked_ like one character and found two. Mostly because my head is usually a bit ahead of where my fingers and the screen are, so this throws me off and I have to go back (this is why I ended up back on vim after trying out vscode for a while, even w/vim mode, it's not perfect). Also, I could never tell the difference between single equals and long equals (that was really two). I'm glad they're there as some like them, but I don't get the appeal.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by bmpafa »

jypepin wrote: post #16

I appreciate the effort, the font looks solid, but I really don't understand the new trend of using italic in the code syntax. It seems like every trendy frontend engineer has their sublime text or vscode set up with a font that uses italic for imports, comments, etc and I really don't see the appeal.

From the OP's section titled "Why?" :

> When it comes to programming fonts, I prefer something strict, readable and relatively condensed for the code proper, complemented with a more informal, flowing and human style for things like comments and reserved keywords.

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