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The font is always sharper on the other side of the screen.
Yes and don't get me started on Dvorak!
Everyone's using QGMLWB now.
Victor Mono – A free programming font
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Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font
#92I 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.
Sadly doesn't work if the language typical format wants you to align things. Works perfectly in lisp or C though.
Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font
#93I have been using Pragmata Pro (https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/) for over a year and it has been fantastic. I'm using it in PyCharm for the UI and Text Editor and in VSCode.
Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font
#94I am impressed by the quality of this font, it has everything modern dev would want from a font.
I think italic and ligatures are fantastic.
Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font
#95I 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.
Italics is fine, depending on how light the change is, but cursive definitely doesn’t work very well.
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#96It'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 per…
I fond that treating a ligature as two characters (or more) in the editor helps with that backspace problem. So if you type >= which is then rendered as ≥, a backspace should bring you back to >, not nothing.
Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font
#97Can 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…
Some people fool themselves into thinking that they can save space by using a very condensed font. That’s not true. The squashed shapes makes the letters more similar, which makes the text less legible, which means you need to compensate by pushing up the overall size. You can only save space by optimizing for the most legible typeface, allowing you to reduce the size. The Victor Mono site is a perfect example: the b…
If you want to save space, just go with a proportional programming font. Legibility goes up because of kerning, and space is saved at the sacrifice of losing the ability to do ascii art.
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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.
Reading a wide line of text is still hard visually, your eyes get tired from all the horizontal movement right and left.
Better to use the wider screen for multiple buffers of narrower code.
Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font
#99What is this cursive italic nonsense. I keep seeing it, but why would anyone want it? How is it helpful?
Re: Victor Mono – A free programming font
#100I 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 don't really like syntax highlighting most of the time, because I have an astigmatism and bad eyesight that make colored text hard to read. However, I want to be able to easily distinguish commented-out code blocks. So I make comments italic.