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Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by Medox »

cmcaleer wrote: post #116
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?

That IBM website promoting it is the most ridiculously overengineered yet totally unusable website I've used in quite some time on desktop. It's really quite something. Also disappointing that the Github README doesn't include alphanumeric sample text. Eventually I just gave up and found a usable website to actually view and sample the font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Mono Luckily, the font is much be…

If you go to https://www.ibm.com/plex/gallery/ and scroll down to "Plex will be mega-international.", you can replace that text with your own, for testing. But I agree that it's ridiculously overengineered and it took way too much time to find this.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by criddell »

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.

That’s a deliberate choice and I suspect that it was driven by their goal of making a better font for low-vision developers.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by fweimer »

sspiff wrote: post #133
fweimer wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I suspect is just a bug: the ligature tables were copied from the regular variant, and perhaps no one noticed for some reason. Maybe the assumption was that the renderer would turn of ligature processing in monospace mode at the time, and the reference renderer did that?

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by detrites »

firecall wrote: post #97

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…

Why do you end each sentence with exclamations? Your past comments suggest you do this often. It's hard to read, as the reader wonders if it's a joke or sarcasm they haven't figured out, detracting from simply reading your comment.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by kreco »

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.

I love it ! No extra mental process to really know if a brace is a brace of a bracket.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by 29athrowaway »

KronisLV wrote: post #94
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.

> 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 fo…

I didn't know about the Croscore fonts, thanks. They look very similar to the Liberation fonts.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by Shorel »

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, there isn't a font that I hate more than I hate Courier New.

Don't know why, it is of course not logical, but it is.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by lofaszvanitt »

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…

3 years later: oops it had an unintentional backdoor, we didn't know about that. lol.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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