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Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by doodlesdev »

agalunar wrote: post #55
doodlesdev wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I wasn't aware that you could disable them, I thought this was handled entirely by the font and not by the editor. Living and learning. Might try JetBrains Mono again without ligatures this time, after I finish my trial of IBM Plex.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by jareklupinski »

doodlesdev wrote: post #44
reassembled wrote: post #4

IBM released a typeface a couple of years ago with much marketing fan fare: https://www.ibm.com/plex/ https://github.com/IBM/plex On another note, are there any notable examples of AI-generated mono-spaced programmer fonts?

I think I just found my new favorite font. I'm absolutely addicted to grotesque sans-serif, I used to use Roboto everywhere, but now I'm currently using Cantarell (GNOME's default font, a humanist typeface) as my desktop font and as an overwrite font for every single website I open, but I might just start using Plex Sans and Plex Mono now. Thank god it's OFL. I still find it fascinating that there are so many differe…

brb setting my editor font to "Silian Rail"

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by Dalewyn »

bruce511 wrote: post #47

One thing I really appreciate about fonts is the low-stakes nature of trying them out. Installing is easy, and doesn't take much space, you set your editor and try it out. There's no lock-in, switching back takes zero effort. So I'm always keen to give them a go, some stick, some don't. For what it's worth I'm in the no-ligature group. I want to see => not some ligature. But again that's subjective and there's room f…

To this day I haven't seen a monospaced font superior to Courier New.

And before anyone asks: No, this isn't a meme. Yes, I'm 300% serious.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by CGamesPlay »

bruce511 wrote: post #47

One thing I really appreciate about fonts is the low-stakes nature of trying them out. Installing is easy, and doesn't take much space, you set your editor and try it out. There's no lock-in, switching back takes zero effort. So I'm always keen to give them a go, some stick, some don't. For what it's worth I'm in the no-ligature group. I want to see => not some ligature. But again that's subjective and there's room f…

The absolute worst is when a monospace font puts fi into a ligature with a width of 1 character, entirely defeating the purpose of being a monospaced font.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by sublinear »

Dalewyn wrote: post #63
bruce511 wrote: post #47

One thing I really appreciate about fonts is the low-stakes nature of trying them out. Installing is easy, and doesn't take much space, you set your editor and try it out. There's no lock-in, switching back takes zero effort. So I'm always keen to give them a go, some stick, some don't. For what it's worth I'm in the no-ligature group. I want to see => not some ligature. But again that's subjective and there's room f…

To this day I haven't seen a monospaced font superior to Courier New. And before anyone asks: No, this isn't a meme. Yes, I'm 300% serious.

There's a vectorized version of Monaco with pixel-perfect hinting when anti-aliasing is disabled that I've been using for years now. I don't remember where I got it from though. It's beautifully legible at any size.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by sitkack »

sublinear wrote: post #65
Dalewyn wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To this day I haven't seen a monospaced font superior to Courier New. And before anyone asks: No, this isn't a meme. Yes, I'm 300% serious.

There's a vectorized version of Monaco with pixel-perfect hinting when anti-aliasing is disabled that I've been using for years now. I don't remember where I got it from though. It's beautifully legible at any size.

You have to be trolling us. Literally the fish that got away story for fonts.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by fwlr »

sitkack wrote: post #46
fwlr wrote: post #11

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…

What do you think of https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

I like it a lot! Definitely in the camp of “comic sans is over-hated for poor reasons, and might even have legibility benefits for dyslexia”, and I considered a few comic sans inspired monospaced fonts before settling on Source Code Pro. The leaders were Fantasque (https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/) and Comic Code (https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code). (Comic Code’s creator actually links to the font you linked, Comic Mono, as an example of a free font with the same spirit!)

Ultimately I found that anything descended from or inspired by comic sans ended up a little too busy for my eyes.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by sen »

sublinear wrote: post #65
Dalewyn wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To this day I haven't seen a monospaced font superior to Courier New. And before anyone asks: No, this isn't a meme. Yes, I'm 300% serious.

There's a vectorized version of Monaco with pixel-perfect hinting when anti-aliasing is disabled that I've been using for years now. I don't remember where I got it from though. It's beautifully legible at any size.

Could you share the font files? I’m curious to see it.
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