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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

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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-...

Same, I've been enjoying using the proportional Iosevka Aile as a coding font too.

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

#83
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-...

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

#84
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/

I'm a fan of Liberation Mono and/or Cousine

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

#85
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/

Ugh! I just tried it in Visual Studio 17 and it is ugly as hell. Source Code Pro is way better.

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

#86
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-...

Oh man. I've tried iosevka too, it's very ugly. Source Code Pro looks so much better both in Visual Studio and in Notepad++.

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

#87

Any comments from someone using this font as a daily driver? I cant seem to move on from Source Code Pro (not that i'm looking to, just tried a couple and found myself clinging to Source Code Pro at the end of the day) This looks nice (similar to what I thought about JetBrains Mono)

I tried the mono version but a double forward slash glitches and overlays the next two characters - which kinda makes it unusable for anyone touching the web.

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

#88
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/

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)

Exactly same. I try different fonts from time to time but always end up going back to Consolas.

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

#89

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…

Thank you for saying more, chrisdalke! I actually tried to post the font’s website, but because it was already posted last year, hacker news wouldn’t allow me to submit the link again.

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

#90

...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!

Nope, you are not the only one! That is an issue of the font renderer using an “even-odd rule” in vector rendering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even%E2%80%93odd_rule

What is your OS & OS version? This has generally gotten better over the past couple of years.

You can also use the static fonts, however, which don’t have vector overlaps, and Will therefore avoid this issue. In fact, it you were working on print design, it would probably still be better to use static fonts at this point.

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