Are there any monospaced fonts like this, with a focus on hyperlegibility?
I use Atkinson for the browser things, and I personally recommend DejaVu Sans Mono. The rest of that font family is excellent as well.
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
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Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
#12I like this idea, but when I go to the web page...
> Download the Font… and change the world! By downloading, installing and/or using the font software, you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms of this End-User License Agreement...
Sigh. I guess I need to read that EULA.
Anyway, clicking on that then downloads a pdf rather than a nice link to some web page text. Sigh.
So then anyway, trying to open that pdf then fails in the first two readers I tried. Sigh.
Why must everything in the world be so hard? Fuck it, never mind. I'll let someone else change the world and wait for widespread adoption for this font to reach me in whatever other ways.
Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
#13Are there any monospaced fonts like this, with a focus on hyperlegibility?
I'm going to assume you want to use it for development. For screen fonts, you typically have different design goals, because otherwise anti-aliasing and ClearText will reduce contrast and void your legibility improvements by spreading things out over subpixels.
I tried to make my own highly legible high-contrast coding font using TensorFlow to fit things onto a high-resolution pixel grid based on a low-resolution draft. That way, characters align with the pixel grid (at the right scaling) which makes them appear much clearer.
https://hajo.me/images/HajoCode16px_hr.png
https://hajo.me/blog/2021/07/24/making-a-font-that-doesnt-su...
Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
#14Are there any monospaced fonts like this, with a focus on hyperlegibility?
Smaller bitmap fonts tend to be easy to distinguish. ... once you learn the patterns.
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#16Maybe opticians should use this as their eyesight testing font. If they don't already.
https://github.com/denispelli/Eye-Chart-Fonts says "The Sloan font file was created by Denis Pelli based on Louise Sloan’s specifications and used for the Pelli-Robson contrast sensitivity chart (Pelli, Robson, & Wilkins, 1988).
Louise Sloan’s design has been designated the US standard for acuity testing by the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Committee on Vision (NAS-NRC, 1980)."
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#17Although the font did really try to nail its goal, I think Iosevka really nailed it.
On top of that, somebody took some of what Atkinson did with their font, and applied it to Iosevka, using its insanely powerful ability to be customized wildly, to produce http://thedarnedestthing.com/iosevka%20hyperlegible
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#18Did we hug it to death? Not loading over here
EDIT: it loads now
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#19I use this for my IDE, I dont have any vision issues or anything, its just really nice to look at :)
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#20I like this idea, but when I go to the web page... > Download the Font… and change the world! By downloading, installing and/or using the font software, you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms of this End-User License Agreement... Sigh. I guess I need to read that EULA. Anyway, clicking on that then downloads a pdf rather than a nice link to some web page text. Sigh. So then anyway, trying t…
Not sure why it wouldn't open for you, but it opens fine in Chrome on Mac. I thought it would be some ridiculous 50 page legalese but it's actually only 1.5 pages long. it's basically a license similar to what you'd see on a Github repo.