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Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by elcomet »

rvanmil wrote: post #23
chrismorgan wrote: post #16

My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…

This looks really nice, too bad it doesn't (and never will) support ligatures. I understand the point the author is trying to make about ligatures in the separate blog post, but boy do I love my ligatures when programming.

Can you easily differenciate between == and === with ligatures ? That's one thing that holds me back to trying ligatures.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by nine_k »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #21
Narann wrote: post #4

Very nice! I tend to use tiny sized font and I don't see any option to change font size. I'm always surprised by the huge default font size in text editors and IDEs. So I ask: Is there such a "standard" dev font size every dev uses and no one complains?

Hey Narann, I assume you are in your early 20s. During the early part of my career, I used to love to design and develop with very tiny fonts. In-fact, there were a time when there was a craze for Bitmap pixel fonts which looks the best at 8px. I used to build apps for Physicians who uses a hand-held device called Pocket PC[1]. My weapon of choice when it comes to fonts were these 8px bitmap fonts for the interfaces.…

I am 47, and still prefer smaller fonts. Not because my vision is perfect! But it seems to have accommodated to looking at small fonts for last 25+ years. I wonder how rare / frequent it may be.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by flobosg »

chrismorgan wrote: post #16

My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…

> the only true serif monospace that I know of

Sun Gallant Demi is another one. Libertine/Libertinus Mono as well.

Re: Dev Fonts

#34

Post by lucideer »

rvanmil wrote: post #23
chrismorgan wrote: post #16

My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…

This looks really nice, too bad it doesn't (and never will) support ligatures. I understand the point the author is trying to make about ligatures in the separate blog post, but boy do I love my ligatures when programming.

The blogpost makes some good points, but it's extremely selective in choosing examples to support the author's thesis.

Mainly in that it ignores many examples of orthographic ligatures that don't fit the author's narrative. A (further deep-)linked blogpost on ligatures in general states:

> Ligatures were invented to solve a practical typesetting problem. In the days of metal fonts, certain characters had features that physically collided with other characters. To fix this, font foundries cast ligatures fonts [0]

But that's not true. That is why ligatures are used by many foundries more recently, but it's not why they were invented, and it doesn't cover all traditional uses of ligatures. German and French orthography in particular contain a lot of examples that are closer to programming operators in use than the author's "fi" example.

[0] https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures.html

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by 6c696e7578 »

I find ttf fonts generally smudge the letters together and can make things hard to see. proggy[1] is quite good if misc-fixed[2] is not available.

  [1] https://proggyfonts.net/download/

  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_%28typeface%29

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by stingraycharles »

elcomet wrote: post #31
rvanmil wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks really nice, too bad it doesn't (and never will) support ligatures. I understand the point the author is trying to make about ligatures in the separate blog post, but boy do I love my ligatures when programming.

Can you easily differenciate between == and === with ligatures ? That's one thing that holds me back to trying ligatures.

For me, I just selectively use _some_ ligatures. There are a few I like (like a lambda symbol instead of `fn` in Clojure), and the rest I just don't use.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by bartvk »

Narann wrote: post #4

Very nice! I tend to use tiny sized font and I don't see any option to change font size. I'm always surprised by the huge default font size in text editors and IDEs. So I ask: Is there such a "standard" dev font size every dev uses and no one complains?

Personally, I use the narrow version of the Anka Coder font. I'm having trouble reading very small fonts, but this narrow font makes up for it.

https://fontlibrary.org/th/font/anka-coder-narrow#Anka/

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by doomlaser »

My favorite recent font discovery is Simplex Roman. Designed in 1967 for early CRT vector displays by Dr. A. V. Hershey (for the US Naval Weapons Laboratory!), and released into the public domain.

Incredibly pleasant looking even today: http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/hershey/

OpenType conversions: https://github.com/scruss/AVHershey-OTF/tree/master/otf

Reminds me of vector arcade games like Asteroids and Tempest... By the way, another cool public domain font is the one used on all US interstates — 1948! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by OskarS »

chrismorgan wrote: post #16

My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…

Yep, Triplicate and is far and away my favorite programming font as well, closely followed by Operator Mono. You need to pay for both, but it was easily worth it for me.
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