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From the README: > ... legally blind developers provided feedback at each stage of design. This makes me curious.
Ligatures?
Looks very readable, but for me personally, ligatures for things like ->, =>, = and those weird JavaScriptisms like == vs === has really become table stakes for me. Didn't care about that at all until about 2020, but can't imagine using a coding font without those features today.
Do you really need font support for that, though? I've found editor support for it much cleaner -- it knows when it's best to expand then and when they should be ligatured.
They're usually grouped into features: standard ligatures (liga), discretionary ligatures (dlig), historical ligatures (hlig), contextual ligatures (clig), and so on. OpenType fonts can also provide stylistic sets, which might swap out some glyphs with alternatives.
Ligatures?
is anyone else thinking Jetbrains Mono is the best thing ever made for terminal and vim font??
I avoid it like the plague because of ligatures, although I must admit other than that I enjoyed in my (admittedly short) experience with JetBrains IDEs. Have never tested them elsewhere.
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I’m super basic regarding fonts and just look for I l 1. If you don’t absolutely nail those in fixed width then get lost. Edit: I just noticed they doubled those up at the end. Nice touch
I|1l 0Oo gq S5
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One factor is that licensing fonts can be extremely expensive. So, make one: pay a higher upfront cost, create something unique to represent your brand, and never pay another cent.
But there are already tons of great fonts available under open licenses.
Did Papyrus represent the Avatar brand?
DID PAPYRUS?!
I don't love the aggressive curly braces. Does anyone else? I feel like the whole typeface here is consistently bland, and then there's the angry curly braces that pop out of nowhere.
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I avoid it like the plague because of ligatures, although I must admit other than that I enjoyed in my (admittedly short) experience with JetBrains IDEs. Have never tested them elsewhere.
Why don't you just disable them? Or does your editor not give you the option?
Very glad to see more “low x height” monospace fonts (x height is the height of lowercase letters relative to capital letters; I haven’t checked to be sure but my eyes tell me this is on the lower side). Source Code Pro has been my go-to for a very long time, and it has always bothered me that Apple opted for higher x-heights in their San Francisco re-design of Helvetica (which already has a high x height to begin wi…
You nailed it - the reason I've stuck with this font for so long is that I really appreciate the beauty of a proper x-height more than I prefer the supposed readability advantages of tall coding fonts. As long a font gets the basic features right (tails on Iilt etc characters, dot in the 0) I've never struggled with reading in monospace for hours on end.