Another coding font, thank goodness! I was getting nervous, because it took more than 24 hours since the last one was announced.
MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
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Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#282Are there plans to support Arabic, Japanese, Korean or other missing languages? I do a lot of NLP work in various languages.
Is Monospace Arabic a real thing?
To the best of my knowledge. I would expect programmers to need it the same as in any other language.
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#283Unfortunately not available to compare on https://www.programmingfonts.org/ While I'm here: Victor Mono has been my programming font of choice for a while now: https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/ Oh, look at that, the Victor Mono homepage has a font comparison slider that allows you to compare it to MonoLisa! MonoLisa advertises that it's wider than other monospace fonts, and you can really see that in the compariso…
Thanks for the victor mono recommendation. It looks really good! I was blown away by how narrow it was compared to other forms in the comparison tool. Side note: it's a bummer that you never see Monaco on these comparison tools. Monaco has been my monospace font of choice for many years now despite never owning a Macbook: https://github.com/cseelus/monego
I, too, have a very strong preference for Monaco. I always wondered whether the font is indeed as great as I think it is, or whether I just like it so much, because I had already used it for 5-10 years before I ever consciously looked at other monospaced fonts. It's great to hear that you intentionally chose it without having already been adapted to it.
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
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Sadly, it doesn’t turn the keyboard into a beam spring one…
That's another expensive hobby to get into
I can make it sound like a Selectric, at least:
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
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I don't know why anyone would even bother to even go beyond the first item on the list. Such beauty, such elegant geometry, such timeless classic lines. Truly an elegant font for a more civilized time. https://www.programmingfonts.org/#font3270 BTW, I'm also a huge fan of Luxi Mono, but I edit it and add a dot in the middle of the zero to make it different from the O. I like it because it reminds me a bit of the Sun…
I don’t understand why none of these lists ever include my favourite font: PragmataPro.
I have to say I was quite surprised to find my font in there too.
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#286Do people really care that much about editor fonts? I just use SF Mono and call it a day. I've never had a problem where the font, of all things, was the main cause of something not working for me.
yes, some people care, also SF Mono is a really great font too! Its ok for people to like stuff that doesn't make sense to you
SF Mono is indeed quite good, I use it on my non-macOS machines as well.
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#287Unfortunately not available to compare on https://www.programmingfonts.org/ While I'm here: Victor Mono has been my programming font of choice for a while now: https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/ Oh, look at that, the Victor Mono homepage has a font comparison slider that allows you to compare it to MonoLisa! MonoLisa advertises that it's wider than other monospace fonts, and you can really see that in the compariso…
IMHO Airbus' effort is better. https://github.com/polarsys/b612 Serifs are known to be less readable on screens. Each to their own but to me that MonoLisa thing is sort of half-serif... it's ... inconsistent and terrible. Possibly a joke.
On low resolution screens, yes. If you have a 2k or better monitor I would encourage you to test this out again. I have found that serifs are now actually easier to read than non, for the same reasons they are easier to read on paper.
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#288Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMHO Airbus' effort is better. https://github.com/polarsys/b612 Serifs are known to be less readable on screens. Each to their own but to me that MonoLisa thing is sort of half-serif... it's ... inconsistent and terrible. Possibly a joke.
On low resolution screens, yes. If you have a 2k or better monitor I would encourage you to test this out again. I have found that serifs are now actually easier to read than non, for the same reasons they are easier to read on paper.
An interesting perspective with which I respectfully disagree. I have high dpi displays (who doesn't?) but prefer sans. I think it's near-universal these days. Everyone is using them for logos too. There's a reason: legibility, everywhere, including for non-native readers. In a global world, one must prioritize clarity. See https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/the-rise-of-the-sans-se... and https://developer.apple.com/fonts/
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
On low resolution screens, yes. If you have a 2k or better monitor I would encourage you to test this out again. I have found that serifs are now actually easier to read than non, for the same reasons they are easier to read on paper.
An interesting perspective with which I respectfully disagree. I have high dpi displays (who doesn't?) but prefer sans. I think it's near-universal these days. Everyone is using them for logos too. There's a reason: legibility, everywhere, including for non-native readers. In a global world, one must prioritize clarity. See https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/the-rise-of-the-sans-se... and https://developer.apple.co…
I read the links. I don't believe that brand designers are optimizing for legibility, unless there's some real study showing sans is easier to read body text with. Designers just follow trends that have nothing to do with user experiences. People switching logos to sans are the same types of people coming up with "Metamates"; just people chasing corporate dogmas.
Some data: https://www.gwern.net/AB-testing#fonts