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Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by grzm »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #87
grzm wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you provide an example of the font doing this? Substitution of individual characters with ligatures is in my experience a feature of the typesetting/display engine (which decides how to represent the "bytes" as glyphs), not the font itself. Indeed, this ligature substation is often something you can toggle in whatever application you're using if it's capable of doing the substitution at all.

I don't use ligatures at all, but I have seen it on websites. So perhaps it's the CSS of the website that has decided to do this. I don't have any specific examples off hand, but my mental picture puts it on sites that also use this style of font: https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/ (although typing fi into the sandbox on the site doesn't exhibit the behavior).

Yup. It's the browser that's choosing to display this. As 'gdwatson pointed out, the font can indicate which ligatures are available, but whether or not the substation occurs also depends on the typesetting engine.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by akiselev »

notduncansmith wrote: post #58
cjohnson318 wrote: post #38

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.

The parentheses are a bit intense as well IMO, though I appreciate the distinctness of vertical characters (ilI|1!)

You guys don’t find the ampersand a little too wibbly wobbly and neurotic?

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by KronisLV »

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.

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

Liberation Mono. Metrics that match Courier New, very legible at all font sizes, easy on the eyes and consistent, wide character support, free, none of that ligatures stuff (personal preference). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts

Some might also like Cousine as an alternative, a version called FiraCousine also supports ligatures for those who want them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by blahedo »

johanam wrote: post #68

I love the curly braces :{)

I love them and wish I'd had this font to give to my intro students—mistyping a curly for a paren is annoying enough when you're experienced, but when you're new to programming and the error messages are not yet super helpful to you and you can't quickly spot the difference between curlies and parens, it can be a really rough ride.

The rest of the font looks good too! I love a good coding monospace that fully distinguishes all the characters.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by ShadowBanThis01 »

cjohnson318 wrote: post #38

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.

Outweighed by the fact that this font offers two things that every font should:

1. Crossbars on the capital “i” 2. A zero that’s distinguishable from an O

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by firecall »

I like how they make a point of consulting people with different legibility needs!

That's a very important point of difference!

People that aren't blind, but don't have perfect eyesight often fall into a forgotten middle ground!

Glasses don't cure everything!

Source: Have a son with eyesight issues who complains that even with the best glasses money can buy, struggles to read information posters in his classroom and so on!

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by nine_k »

cjohnson318 wrote: post #38

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.

A bit to zigzaggy maybe, but now parens / brackets / braces can't be mistaken for one another.

"Bland" is actually good; when reading source code, you should be able to pay no attention to the font, and concentrate on the text.

I like how quotes, asterisk, circumflex, etc are large and legible.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by nine_k »

akiselev wrote: post #93
notduncansmith wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The parentheses are a bit intense as well IMO, though I appreciate the distinctness of vertical characters (ilI|1!)

You guys don’t find the ampersand a little too wibbly wobbly and neurotic?

It can't be mistaken for 8 though.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by dragonwriter »

akiselev wrote: post #93
notduncansmith wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The parentheses are a bit intense as well IMO, though I appreciate the distinctness of vertical characters (ilI|1!)

You guys don’t find the ampersand a little too wibbly wobbly and neurotic?

It’s a bit unusual, but I wouldn’t say either “wibbly wobbly” or “neurotic”. On first impression, I like it: it’s clear and distinct while managing to be light and open without having a light stroke.
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