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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

#41

The 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.

I've seen the same trend in other recent fonts designed for programming, like JetBrains Mono, with the idea that "more height" on lowercase letters improves legibility at small font sizes. I'm in agreement with your distaste, mostly because I work on high-DPI displays where legibility is not necessarily an issue and fonts that do this look like a "blob" of text.

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

#42
Neither monospace variant looks good in a Linux terminal or a text editor. Linux is very peculiar about rendering fonts, and this font is likely designed for macos. I noticed that this font doesn't have powerline symbols which makes it even less usable in the terminal.

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

#44

I really must recommend Inter[1]. It's also open-source and available as variable. [1] https://rsms.me/inter/

Inter is almost as good as Apple's SF, and with a much more permissive license. It's my default when designing apps for the web.

I used to default to "system font stack", but that was always because SF is such a great font. Defaulting to Ubuntu font on Ubuntu is... unfortunate. Luckily, Inter is fantastic, and it can be fantastic on every OS.

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

#45
post #25

I 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/

Have you tried Inconsolata? I like Jetbrains Mono a lot too, but somehow still stick to Inconsolata, even after trying so many others so many times.

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

#47
post #40

Die-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-...

The Slab variant is still my go-to, even after paying for things like Operator Mono and Pragmata Pro.

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

#48
...Am I the only one who, for some fonts, has issues with the overlapping section of the "A" character in Firefox?

https://i.ibb.co/8sbMvL3/Screen-Shot-2020-07-23-at-6-49-52-P...

Recursive isn't the only font where this happens, but I did notice it for Recursive. I've also observed this on more than one computer, so it's not just my machine!

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

#50

The 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…

That's a wonderful showcase of the posibilities of variable fonts, thanks!
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