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Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by neilpanchal »

ainar-g wrote: post #11

I really like the font, but I doubt that a claim of “wide language support” can be made when Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and other scripts are not supported.

Greek is on the way (last pic on the blog post) and more to come soon: https://neil.computer/notes/berkeley-mono-february-update/

Current support:

  ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 Western European
  ISO 8859-2 Latin-2 Central European
  ISO 8859-3 Latin-3 South European
  ISO 8859-4 Latin-4 North European
  ISO 8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish
  ISO 8859-10 Latin-6 Nordic
  ISO 8859-13 Latin-7 Baltic Rim
  ISO 8859-15 Latin-9 Finnish, Estonian
  ISO 8859-16 Latin-10 South-Eastern European

Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by armadillu »

I can only really judge a font when its loaded in my system, running in my setup. I wish font makers targeting developers would release trial fonts (with some essential chars missing or similar), so that we could test them properly before paying.

I am always looking for a better font, and this one looks like it may be an improvement over my current one.

Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by ainar-g »

neilpanchal wrote: post #13
ainar-g wrote: post #11

I really like the font, but I doubt that a claim of “wide language support” can be made when Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and other scripts are not supported.

Greek is on the way (last pic on the blog post) and more to come soon: https://neil.computer/notes/berkeley-mono-february-update/ Current support: ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 Western European ISO 8859-2 Latin-2 Central European ISO 8859-3 Latin-3 South European ISO 8859-4 Latin-4 North European ISO 8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish ISO 8859-10 Latin-6 Nordic ISO 8859-13 Latin-7 Baltic Rim ISO 8859-15 Latin-9 Finnish, Estonian ISO 8859-1…

Thanks, that's nice to hear!

Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by spockz »

I really like the font. At least at mobile it seems to be extremely clear. I cannot pinpoint why.

But to try it in my editor it seems I need to buy a $75 license first. Is there another free download button I missed?

Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by rootusrootus »

leetrout wrote: post #9

I would love to see ligatures incorporated but I understand that is a polarizing opinion. I love the little niceties of rendering arrows which are used all over the place these days.

I am personally not a fan of ligatures, but since they seem to be entirely optional and controlled by the IDE, I think it would be nice to see them included. For people not like me, because it won't hurt me, and will broaden the appeal.
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