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I use comic sans in my IDE to keep drab programming things lighthearted. Reduces the urge of others to do paired programming.
Looks like Comic Mono is the trial version. (https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/)
The curly braces are rather weird. In my opinion, the pinnacle of FOSS monospace typefaces is JetBrains Mono.
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But do they represent the Intel brand? Did Papyrus represent the Avatar brand? DID PAPYRUS?!
"He just highlighted Avatar, he clicked the drop down menu, and then he randomly selected Papyrus, like a thoughtless child just wandering by a garden yanking leaves along the way." [1] As iconic a moment as the creation of the first sans serif font [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ [2] "The earliest printing typefaces which omitted serifs were not intended to render contemporary texts, but to repr…
This thread made me finally look up its origins which are a bit interesting.
https://ew.com/tv/2017/12/19/snl-writer-julio-torres-avatar-...
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.
In another lifetime I coudn't imagine using anything other than Consolas/Inconsolata.
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.
https://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/
It's slightly thicker to more closely match what Courier from a typewriter actually looked like on a page with the ink bleed -- Courier New was modeled after the typewriter forms, not the result on the page, which to me has always been a massive error.
And Prime has beautiful, actual italics.
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It is the best monospace font ever. I've tried a whole host of programming fonts, but nothing is hinted as well for Windows as Jetbrains Mono. It made me move off of Consolas, despite a decade of having gotten used to it.
I tried all of these out, still prefer Lucida Console for the command prompt. It seems to be the most compact despite staying readable. All the rest require a bigger font for some reason, otherwise they are hard to read. Was that different from your experience?
Digital font designers have to start out by choosing something called the em-height. This is a nonsense holdover from print days, and is especially infuriating because no one agrees on a standard em-height. Therefore, fonts look different despite being set to the same size. Here is a great rant on this: [1]
Lucida Console has a large x-height, which is generally considered helpful in small-size legibility. But it has that in common with both Consolas and Jetbrains Mono.
For me, I can use Consolas, Lucida Console and Jetbrains Mono all down to Size 10 in Git Bash on a shitty 13" 1080p laptop screen. Hence my comment that the ClearType hinting is glorious.
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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…
"Atlas Typewriter, a companion monospaced family also in six weights" [1] [1] https://commercialtype.com/news/atlas_grotesk_typewriter
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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.
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…
Thank deity that we don't have package managers for fonts.