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Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by K0SM0S »

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.

I guess it's just one more visual marker, perpendicular to e.g. colors so you get twice the possibilities.

Whether italic or bold or colors or anything, I find that too much visual marking is bloat, unecessary cognitive load which overemphasize syntax, detrimentally to flow — it's harder to gain more perspective when you're kept so 'in it'. Good typographic rules very much apply to code as well.

I personally think ~3 to 7 marking variations are usually enough to convey a general paradigm.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by nine_k »

sabujp wrote: post #30

I found a bug in the font rendering! Maybe just a bug in the way the website is rendering it on the try it page? => becomes a ⇒ (U+21d2) but AFAICT there's no way to make a left arrow with double lines be only 2 chars wide, i.e. how do i make a ⇐ (U+21d0). A 3 char wide left arrow works though, e.g. : Like the font otherwise, there are some other interesting unicode conversions, e.g. : === becomes ≡ (U+2261)

This is not a bug; this is how other ligature fonts, notably Fira Code, work.

≤ is used way more often than ⇐.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by macintux »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #24

Devoting more than a couple of minutes to choosing an IDE font seems like the height of bikeshedding to me. Using cursive in your IDE just seems completely beyond reason... I have no idea at all why this is becoming so trendy. Do people have so few problems to work on that this has become a reasonable use of their time?

As pointed out several times on a recent discussion, including responses to this question, programmers spend a lot of time staring at text. It’s not unreasonable to want to find a good typeface.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303707

“I don’t see the reason” is rarely a good rationale for blaming those who do for being wastrels.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by Zyst »

Damn, I think I actually really like this!

I'm going to switch from Operator Mono after 3 or so years for the first time, for a month or so to see if I want to switch completely.

Thanks for contributing this! Really cool font.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by macintux »

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…

I didn’t understand the appeal of narrow fonts until I switched to Iosevka, and now I’m a big fan.

I don’t see any readability problems, I can increase the text (important for my old eyes) without losing horizontal screen real estate, and I find the overall aesthetic quite pleasing.

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by nine_k »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #24

Devoting more than a couple of minutes to choosing an IDE font seems like the height of bikeshedding to me. Using cursive in your IDE just seems completely beyond reason... I have no idea at all why this is becoming so trendy. Do people have so few problems to work on that this has become a reasonable use of their time?

Spending some resources on making comfortable the thing you spend all day watching may pay off. A bad font breaks my concentration; a less legible font increases the chance of silly typos, etc.

Try working while sitting on a random piece of furniture, while using a keyboard from Sinclair Spectrum put on a random coffee table. Chances are your productivity will slightly decrease.

Same applies to every tool you use daily. Even a small difference in quality may play a major role.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by topologistics »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #24

Devoting more than a couple of minutes to choosing an IDE font seems like the height of bikeshedding to me. Using cursive in your IDE just seems completely beyond reason... I have no idea at all why this is becoming so trendy. Do people have so few problems to work on that this has become a reasonable use of their time?

I don't know how much customizing my desktop environment is bikeshedding, I just like for things to look nice.

Take some time to appreciate the aesthetic value in the little things, you will get more out of life.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by DominoTree »

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.

What's interesting to me is that if you use one of these fonts in an editor with Rust or another language they'll usually look quite like any other regular font without any fancy cursive or whatnot.

My assumption is that it's the editor's implementation, but I found it interesting that the use of these fonts (or at least, proper implementation thereof) seems to lean heavily towards Javascript.

Or am I missing something here?

(FWIW I'm a fan of italics for comments - here's what my setup looks like https://imgur.com/a/jTXHIo2)

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