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Intel has a little known open source sans serif too[1]. It's quite beautiful and has a DIN feel to it[2]. It's been around forever and maintenance was recently discontinued. [1] https://github.com/intel/clear-sans [2] https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/clear-sans
The curly braces are rather weird. In my opinion, the pinnacle of FOSS monospace typefaces is JetBrains Mono.
fira mono forever! :p
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…
Personally I'm skeptical of their consultation. My vision is not terrible but just on my initial scan the lowercase vwxyz look too similar to their uppercase variants and I have difficulty with the lowercase l and 1. Without my glasses I wouldn't be able to tell those apart at all.
Man I really have a vicerally negative reaction to this font. 1) The braces are completely horrible 2) What kind of person thinks that making the fullstop massive and putting it in the middle of the line like a dot product sign is good? 3) Where even is the backtick? 4) For all their talk of legibility, lowercase l and 1 are very similar looking to my eyes.
A lawyer.
Scanning dense legalese and/or contract language becomes quite a bit easier if you have an easy visual cue where the current (tortured) sentence will end. It provides a decent estimate for the upper bound for how much context and/or state you need to keep in your head to process a given statement.
I get to review technical and security parts of contracts at work and can see the value for such a font in that particular case.
Why do hardware companies release fonts? It’s not snark, I am legitimately curious. Is it marketing, branding, something else?
Man I really have a vicerally negative reaction to this font. 1) The braces are completely horrible 2) What kind of person thinks that making the fullstop massive and putting it in the middle of the line like a dot product sign is good? 3) Where even is the backtick? 4) For all their talk of legibility, lowercase l and 1 are very similar looking to my eyes.
Also the plus is positioned higher than the hyphen-minus. Vertically center-aligned operators (+- ) are a must for coding, in my opinion.
- fira code: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
- jetbrains mono: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
And I have tried a lot. Everything else feels weirdly stretched or cramped or not legible enough etc.
Still prefer consolas for some reason