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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 AmericanChopper »

topologistics wrote: post #39
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.

It’s the amount of effort I see going into optimising for the best font I consider bikeshedding. It’s something you could devote unlimited time to for an unlimited amount of margin improvements.

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

That’s a perfectly valid world view. A different and equally valid world view could be to not worry about small problems, and focus on things that give you the most satisfaction in life. I personally don’t care much about how my IDE looks, because writing (what I consider to be) good code is the bit I find most satisfying.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by alpaca128 »

I really like the overall design of the font. I'm not used to such thin letters, but it looks very clean.

Not sure if I'll get used to the cursive part, but it seems like this is purely in the text editor's control, and in my case text is only displayed in cursive when it's marked up that way in .org files(EDIT: it turns out it's easy to make Vim display comments as cursive, luckily without affecting keywords: "highlight Comment cterm=italic gui=italic").

In my opinion this is fantastic work for a free font.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by quickthrower2 »

labster wrote: post #48
quickthrower2 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pro tip - Consolas is good enough. Any other font won't make you faster, happier or wealthier.

The font is always sharper on the other side of the screen.

Yes and don't get me started on Dvorak!

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by nine_k »

badatshipping wrote: post #41

Why is this better than Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Consolas, SF Mono, Pragmata Pro, and Operator Mono? The reason can be anything, but what is the reason? I don't find that this font outperforms any of those fonts on any of the metrics listed on the website (crispness, legibility). Is this, like, a subjective thing? Or do I have bad taste?

(1) Do you have an objective metric of legibility? Can you measure it without running a large study?

(2) Can you decide for yourself whether a particular font is better for you? Do you need an objective metric to persuade you?

(3) Did you encounter projects that people do to scratch their own itch? Were any of them occasionally useful for a wider audience?

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by aasasd »

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…

That's not narrow, though. It's very similar to a proportional font, like the one right here on HN.

Which is why Victor is already in my notes under ‘try out,’ as I'm a bit tired of rather wide Anonymous Pro―like I get tired of wide Verdana or Gotham. But the too-geometric lines are off-putting.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by r-w »

goldilmje wrote: post #27
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.

Fashion is not supposed to make sense. That's why it's called fashion. The only thing that matters is that it's different and criticized by "the others" that you think you are superior to (old programmers who use boring fonts)

You think the only reason people like aesthetics is to feel superior?
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