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Re: Dev Fonts

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What language are you using such that inter-line relative column spacing doesn't affect your code comprehension? > I don't see the point in a monospace font outside of the terminal Why not use Verdana in the terminal?

I'm confused. In every modern language I've used apart from go and terraform, only leading indentation matters and autoformatters do not apply mid-line alignment or align subsequent lines against characters in a previous line. edit: and maybe Haskell? the layout rules are complicated personally I don't think lining up e.g. variable or parameter names in c style declarations improves readability at all, and it pollute…

Good point, it is usually the leading indentation that matters most. I guess since I use Clojure mostly, I like to be able to line up pairs in a map, or a let binding. This could potentially be achieved with tabs, but I'm a spaces guy so I think variable-spaced fonts would be problematic.

> but I do use a monospace font in the terminal because many command line applications align their output into columns using spaces

Ah, makes sense.

Re: Dev Fonts

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post #240

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i can't find any pictures of triplicate with a dark background. could you share any? some hefty fonts (ie, go mono, courier) look so different when you change backgrounds that i am hesitant to buy without looking at a sample. TIA

My own website has a dark theme if you have @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark), or if JavaScript is enabled, there’s a switcher in the top right hand corner. Note however that I use Triplicate T3 in the dark theme (300/700 for regular/bold), compared with Triplicate T4 in the light theme (400/700). You can fiddle with the @font-face declarations in dev tools (the font change happens in 2019b-dark.css) if you want to…

ok; so i bought the font. it's beautiful! wow. thanks.
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