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MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

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Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

#11
Not a fan of these sharp modern faces in general. However, the small text in this one looks particularly "smudgy".

I stopped hopping monospace fonts when I discovered Go Mono. Go Mono does not seem to get blurry even at small sizes. M, m, n always look impeccable. Not so here.

I'm not sure. Maybe something is wrong with the text-rendering in my browser.

Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

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post #12

Isn't "increased width" an ungodly sin to the developer lord? If anything, we want to see more in a given space, not less...

> Isn't "increased width" an ungodly sin to the developer lord? If anything we want to see more in a given space, not less...

I think it increases readability. I need to read what I'm looking at, not a lot of things I'm not looking at.

Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

#14

If you're willing to spend money on a font for coding, then do yourself a favor and take a look at PragmataPro as well. I bought a license (checks notes...) 8 years ago and it has served me very well. If I was not down to pay for a font, then I'd probably use one of Iosevka's forms. Personally, however, it became clear to me that just like my monitor, the font I spend hours looking at every day is also worth some mon…

Pragmata Pro is quite nice... but not for coding.

I like narrow fonts. Barlow is excellent. News Gothic is fantastic. Geo Grotesque is super beautiful. But it just doesn't work for me when a coding font is narrow. Fonts like Iosevka and Pragmata are harder to read than needed and for no clear benefit. Especially when used for projects based on C and derivatives. If you ever find yourself needing to cram more symbols per line onto your screen, it's a sign that there's a coding style problem! Lines simply should be short enough to not require horizontal compression.

Obviously, YMMV, to each their own, etc.

Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

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post #12

Isn't "increased width" an ungodly sin to the developer lord? If anything, we want to see more in a given space, not less...

Wider fonts are significantly easier to read than narrow fonts which is the main point a programmer typically optimizes for. Since most editors can reflow anyways and programmers are relatively conservatives for max width anyways my general experience is that I have more than enough space on the right unused.

Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

#17

Since we are talking about our favourite coding fonts, my personal choice is on Comic Code. I find it very easy to read and better than the other mono comic sans fonts. https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

Oh god... I can't say if you're trolling or not.

Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

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post #12

Isn't "increased width" an ungodly sin to the developer lord? If anything, we want to see more in a given space, not less...

> Isn't "increased width" an ungodly sin to the developer lord? If anything we want to see more in a given space, not less... I think it increases readability. I need to read what I'm looking at, not a lot of things I'm not looking at.

Not if a part of a line is out of the window right? This makes splitting harder, therefore, reading harder

Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Isn't "increased width" an ungodly sin to the developer lord? If anything we want to see more in a given space, not less... I think it increases readability. I need to read what I'm looking at, not a lot of things I'm not looking at.

Not if a part of a line is out of the window right? This makes splitting harder, therefore, reading harder

Why not just use word wrapping?
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