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Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by chrismorgan »

unicornporn wrote: post #199
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…

> My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate: the only true serif monospace that I know of Also: https://github.com/yellow-type-foundry/xanhmono / https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Xanh+Mono

Cool! I hoped that line would get people to show me a few more, and it has.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by beepy »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #53
nine_k wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

50 is about the age where you get presbyopia, ie. start to get difficulties focusing details due to loss of lens elasticity, circular muscle weakening, and makula degeneration.

Can confirm. I used to love tiny fonts for coding, for everything — more text, less scrolling! 10, maybe 11pt. But as I approached 50, I started bumping font sizes up. When one of my eyes actually started twitching, I gave in and got glasses. My 20 year-old self would shake his head at my 50 year-old self in his glasses, peering at his 15pt code.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by chrismorgan »

lokedhs wrote: post #64
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…

What about GNU Free Mono? I use it for APL development because it has nice APL symbols. The font itself uses serifs.

That’s a slab serif.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by chrismorgan »

antonios wrote: post #178
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…

There's also CMU Typewriter text if you want another serif monospaced font. Looks wonderful in high dpi I believe. I've hacked mine to put slashed zero.

That’s a slab serif.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by soneca »

lxe wrote: post #200

Iosevka is highly active and highly customizable set that I've been sticking with after a dozen terminal fonts switching. Every time I try a new font now, I go back to Iosevka. The narrow width makes it stand out significantly from the others and it's much easier to use when having multiple columns open on the screen. I highly recommend it.

You got me when mentioning multiple columns. My setup is that I have half of my external monitor with VSCode (the other half is the browser) and most of the times three columns in there - folder structure and two files on a split screen.

I compared Iosevka with the 3 others just as narrow fonts (Inconsolata, Nanum Gothic Coding, and Ubuntu Mono). Iosevka won for me because it is taller or bolder than the others (felt more easily readable in small fonts for me), but also because it is more unique in its shape compared to regular reading fonts — the “o” is more squared for example.

Thanks for your comment! I will change to it just now!

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by bitwize »

Oh. One of these again. I get the feeling that "coding fonts" are converging on a certain look. There's a little variation, but not much... which is why I use 1980s microcomputer and terminal fonts to code in. See the Ultimate Old School PC Font Pack for a great collection: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/

Of the more modern coding fonts, I find Iosevka the absolute prettiest (available under a free license anyway). My Visual Studio Code is set to use Iosevka.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by bitwize »

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…

Triplicate looks like Gallant, the font used by old Sun workstations. Looking like Gallant is a point in its favor (but ouch! That license fee is to its detriment.)

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by NeutronStar »

lpellis wrote: post #47
uallo wrote: post #5

More and more often, I see ligatures being used on such fonts. E.g. === or != are combined in a visually single character. Personally, I don't like that at all as I think it makes code less readable. It is probably something that you can get used to. But what exactly is the appeal of it anyway?

I sort of get the point, but a lot of these fonts squash together == to look like a long =, making it really hard to distinguish == from === Can you tell from 'Iosevka Slab' that it is a triple equal sign?

Losevka has the option of setting the === ligature with 3 lines instead of 2.
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