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

Post by jsjohnst » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 3:23 AM UTC

lambda wrote: post #54

chrisdalke wrote: post #10

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…

Unfortunately, font-variation-settings isn't supported by Firefox, Safari, IE, or older versions of Edge, so these settings only work for ~70% of users according to Can I Use. It was a bit frustrating viewing this site on Firefox and not having any indication of why the settings weren't changing anything. Of course, maybe that's because there hasn't been enough demand for it, and now that there is a font that's widel…

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 6:51 AM UTC

chrisdalke wrote: post #41

nyanpasu64 wrote: post #38

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> 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.