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Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by seanhunter »

tigrisc wrote: post #111
seanhunter wrote: post #101

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.

You should install the font and check it out. 2 - what you see in screenshot is not period, 3 - backtick exists, not in that screenshot, 4 - lowercase l is curved and totally different from 1

Zero interest in trying it out, especially now that someone has pointed out that the - and + are not vertically aligned. I cannot unsee that. In any case it just looks way worse than my lovely Berkely Mono. For the braces and the shape of the 6 alone I couldn't possibly use such a font.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by seanhunter »

atoav wrote: post #129

My two favourite monospaced fonts are: - 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.

I like both of those a lot but I'm all about the Berkeley Mono which I picked up after it appeared on HN. It feels like a modern version of an ancient old terminal font. https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/

Note they have different versions of the zero to cater to different tastes. The dot, the slash, the negative slash and the just figure it out it's slightly less round than a capital O are all available. They also have a ligatured version for people who are into that.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by sspiff »

fweimer wrote: post #113
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.

Overpass Mono does it: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Overpass+Mono?preview.text... It's been fixed in Red Hat Mono.

That looks so wrong. Why would they do this?

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by citrin_ru »

I guess the best coding font is one you are used to. My first font was MS Fixedsys but then on a friend advice I've tried terminus [1] and liked it. Since then I've tried many other fonts but none of them stuck with me like terminus did. The only downside probably is that while bitmap fonts looks pixel-perfect 3rd party TTF versions are not so good (and some terminals support only TTF/OTF).

[1] https://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by cryo »

alpaca128 wrote: post #92
djvu97 wrote: post #14

is anyone else thinking Jetbrains Mono is the best thing ever made for terminal and vim font??

Nothing beats Iosevka Term (Slab) for me. It nails so many details for me I can't imagine switching ever again.

Wow that one was new to me, looks pretty good.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by xmcqdpt2 »

citrin_ru wrote: post #134

I guess the best coding font is one you are used to. My first font was MS Fixedsys but then on a friend advice I've tried terminus [1] and liked it. Since then I've tried many other fonts but none of them stuck with me like terminus did. The only downside probably is that while bitmap fonts looks pixel-perfect 3rd party TTF versions are not so good (and some terminals support only TTF/OTF). [1] https://terminus-font.…

I really like Terminus too. I used it extensively when I was programming on a lower dpi screen where antialiasing makes everything look blurry.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by WesolyKubeczek »

helmholtz wrote: post #79
doodlesdev wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You'll love Linus Boman's take on it then [1] If you love neo-grotesques, you can't do much better than Neue Haas Grotesk or Atlas Grotesk [2]. Both are by CommercialType, both cost a pretty penny, but both are absolutely amazing. I fully agree with you about wanting beautiful and pleasing characters though. It's my gift to myself for being paperfree. If I'm going to read on screen instead of printed, I want the best…

The best possible experience is 6-8k at 32", low DPI can go burn in hell.

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).

And your example about CSS and browsers is exactly this. There can be information added to indicate how things should be displayed, but it’s ultimately up to the renderer. All the tricks used to adapt to various ways browsers render the same data, and sometimes the same (font and CSS) data in different contexts (say, as part of a

vs part of an ) in the same browser.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by fbnlsr »

After years of using Ubuntu Mono, I've switched to IBM Plex Mono six years ago and I just can't find a better one now. That one feels weird, especially the curly braces.
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