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I tried using proportional fonts instead of mono spaced and it actually worked great. If you really want to save real estate I think that is a better way to do it.
I find it much more readable--and part of me feels coding should be for the humans, not the robots.
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Which only moves the question back a step. Why, exactly, make reserved words, comments, tag attributes, etc., explicitly less readable than the rest of the painfully wispy text? I find this font terrible on a readability basis to start with. The italics just double down on the hatred of eyes. I get a designer wanting to imitate a lot of currently popular san serif fonts (though not why they would make the font so ski…
Considering the author of this font pretty much made it for their own use, the answer to your question becomes: because that's their personal preference. No one needs to justify what font they prefer. Then they decided to be nice and share it with the world for free.
Why does the linked site require JavaScript and trackers to work? The site is completely inaccessible using Firefox Focus.
However, I like to use the "Fixed" bitmap font.
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 a very extensive and detailed piece of work.
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?
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(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?
I only ask because the website says "because there just wasn't any free or paid font that I found both readable, effective and elegant" and I can think of several, including the ones I listed. I'm not saying not to do projects like this! Scratching your own itch and sharing your solution is great. I'm just skeptical, as someone who has obsessively tried just about every programming font out there, when I read that a…
If you really do know about several fonts that Rune B. finds more readable, effective, and elegant than this one, I would urge you to contact them.
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Considering the author of this font pretty much made it for their own use, the answer to your question becomes: because that's their personal preference. No one needs to justify what font they prefer. Then they decided to be nice and share it with the world for free.
Thank goodness the idea that something is free must automatically shut down any criticism hasn't taken over. We wouldn't have anything good .
I'm not angry, but I'm pretty sure it's objectively a bad idea. Provably, it's more difficult to read cursive fonts than, say, sans-serif monospace fonts.
Not to mention that the argument that "people like different things" is just not very good. It's simply a bad design choice. Cool project, and the monospace as well as ligatures are awesome, but the cursive italics are most definitely a bust. For context, I've used Fira Code[1] for the past few years and I'm quite happy with it. Author's claim that there aren't any free clean programming fonts is also a bit bizarre; we see free fonts released all the time.
The site seems to create a huge amount of load on my computer. As soon as I open the page, usage across all 4 of my cpu cores seems to shoot up from 1-10% all the way to 70-100%. I'm running Firefox 69 on arch linux.
Seconded, though not as bad for me (FF 70, win10). Eats about half as much CPU as decoding a 4k video, which is crazy for what appears to be a static site. Just tested on arch w/FF 70 and much worse.