Since I have to do lots of TeX editing in emacs, every "coding" font disqualifies, if it doesn't have at least polytonic greek and cyrillic glyphs. So, misc-fixed forever!
Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
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Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
#32I know this font is about versatility, but when it comes to a coding font I have yet to find something that beats JetBrains Mono (and I've tried many coding fonts). https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
I haven't seen this yet. Just downloaded and installed for VS Code and it makes a huge difference. Thanks for the recommendation!
Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
#33I really must recommend Inter[1]. It's also open-source and available as variable.
Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
#34I know this font is about versatility, but when it comes to a coding font I have yet to find something that beats JetBrains Mono (and I've tried many coding fonts). https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
On windows, I tried dozens of trending fonts like fira code, new ms font, jetbrains etc but nothing looks more natural to read than Consolas (and also Roboto mono)
Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
#35I know this font is about versatility, but when it comes to a coding font I have yet to find something that beats JetBrains Mono (and I've tried many coding fonts). https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
Since we're onto recommendations, I've been using 'Go Mono' for a while:
https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/go-mono
https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts
Wish the 'Recursive' font had a 'Slab-Serif' slider too, would've been interesting to compare.
Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The question is: do we need flexible fonts? Other than fine-tuning the monospace font to fit your exact preferences given the hours you spend coding, everything else seems to be a matter of just picking an appropriate type that fits your project
As a coder, probably not. As a designer, absolutely. The exact weight of a font can make a ton of difference in a finished product, and it's frequent to be frustrated that the font isn't available in the weight that would look right for the needs -- you need something in between semibold and bold, or something in between regular and condensed, or something oblique but not that oblique. It's the difference between a d…
Interesting. But given that so many big brands simply use Arial or Helvetica for their logo and brand, is this really a thing?
Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
#37The capital 'A' renders very strangely for me. Firefox, OSX.
Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
#38The Google Fonts page doesn't really do justice to how dynamic this font is -- https://www.recursive.design/ has a live demo that shows more of the options, maybe the link should be changed to their demo. There are four dimensions and a few other flags that the font can be adjusted by in CSS: natural-width to fixed-width, Linear to "Casual", Font weight, Font slant, and cursive variants. By tweaking any of the variab…
> There are four dimensions and a few other flags that the font can be adjusted by in CSS: natural-width to fixed-width, Linear to "Casual", Font weight, Font slant, and cursive variants.
And yet no way to decrease the x-height. I'm sick of fonts where the lowercase is tall and the uppercase/ascenders are short.
Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a coder, probably not. As a designer, absolutely. The exact weight of a font can make a ton of difference in a finished product, and it's frequent to be frustrated that the font isn't available in the weight that would look right for the needs -- you need something in between semibold and bold, or something in between regular and condensed, or something oblique but not that oblique. It's the difference between a d…
Interesting. But given that so many big brands simply use Arial or Helvetica for their logo and brand, is this really a thing?
Helvetica (Neue) comes in more weights and variations than practically any other typeface. So it is really a thing.
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/neue-helvetica/
Also, Helvetica is popular in large part because of the very precise personality it has with is quite amenable to the image corporations often like to portray. It become widely available on computers, starting with Macs, because it was already such a useful font. Major corporations aren't choosing Helvetica simply because it's a default font on computers. And, of course, it's not like a majority of companies use Helvetica for their branding or anything -- it's a popular font, but where popular means maybe 3% or 5%, not 50%.
Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
#40Die-hard fan of Iosevka[0], a narrow monospace font family (regular and term) and nerd-font patched varieties [1].
Just love how they display in emacs gui on a 4k display.
[0] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...