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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 pcr910303 »

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.

It’s something similar to syntax highlighting. We (or at least myself) doesn’t ‘read’ keywords to read code, it’s mostly syntax highlighting and the ‘shape’ of the code around the keyword, and the length of keyword. You really don’t need the exact characters to parse code in your head. The cursive characters give another visual distinction of the keywords.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by Semiapies »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #65
Semiapies wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect you've devoted more effort to these posts than most people here have to picking fonts.

Perhaps expressing a view that something is a waste of time is naturally a waste of time itself. That could be an interesting philosophical position to take, but I don’t think it contributes much to the discussion in this case. Perhaps I’m discussing the merits of the topic at hand to satisfy my own intellectual curiosity.

"Perhaps expressing a view that something is a waste of time is naturally a waste of time itself."

That might be, but that's not at all what I said. I noted that for all your talk of all the time spent picking fonts, you're spending more time on this than most coders actually spend looking at and picking between coding fonts. (Thst is, see a font mentioned, look at a sample of it, and make a quick decision whether it looks any better than what they're using - and that decision usually being that it isn't.)

To call your efforts a "waste of time" is pointedly your choice of phrase, not mine.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by hprotagonist »

detaro wrote: post #23
bmpafa wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also from FAQ : > A programming font with cursive italics and ligatures is the worst idea in the world. This is absolutely horrible. BTW, I am really angry. > [Answer:] Not really a question, but anyway: People actually like different things. And it's OK. It's OK if someone else prefers a different font for code than you do. We don't have to use the same one. ️ (though obv. parent post is not hostile like this Q)

Shouldn't it be called " A sophisticated programming font" then? :D

only if it is also "for humans".

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by smsm42 »

Cursive unfortunately looks very distracting. Having to context-switch when reading the code between two character sets is going to be exhausting - I felt it even when looking at the example screenshots, I can imagine how taxing it would be to go through hundreds of pages of code in this mode. The non-cursive letters look pretty clean but I'm afraid cursive kills it as programmer's font for me.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by detaro »

hprotagonist wrote: post #75
detaro wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shouldn't it be called " A sophisticated programming font" then? :D

only if it is also "for humans".

Seems like the submission title was changed in the meantime?

When I made the comment it was "The sophisticated programming font".

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by grawprog »

delinka wrote: post #15
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.

>Fitting more on the screen horizontally.

But screens for the most part have only been getting wider. I could see this in the days of square CRT's but most screens are fairly wide these days.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by Aeolun »

detaro wrote: post #54
harry-wood wrote: post #50

"free" as in freedom, or just free as in $0? Anyone see a mention of copyright/license anywhere on there?

The repo says MIT: https://github.com/rubjo/victor-mono (although I'm not sure how/how well MIT works for fonts, so maybe worth an issue)

MIT is pretty much ‘everything is explicitly allowed’.

Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font

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Post by detaro »

Aeolun wrote: post #79
detaro wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The repo says MIT: https://github.com/rubjo/victor-mono (although I'm not sure how/how well MIT works for fonts, so maybe worth an issue)

MIT is pretty much ‘everything is explicitly allowed’.

If you include the copyright info. So if I use your font in a PDF document, does that document need to have your copyright notice on it? Visibly, or only in metadata? Always, or only if the font (the "software") is explicitly embedded into the PDF? How about using it as webfont for the code samples on my blog?
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