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Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by bluedino »

ateng wrote: post #183
Shorel wrote: post #147

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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.

Probably not the font itself but the environment around it when you see it? You usually sees it as the default monospace typeface in an old windows environment, probably with no anti-aliasing and with low resolution screen. That combination is an eyesore. Courier New in an modern environment, with modern text rendering and anti-aliasing on high res screen is actually not bad at all.

I see it in other people's PuTTY sessions. It's so bad.

Use Consolas, or Droid Mono, Lucida Console, almost anything.

Courier is so thin and terrible. Combine that with the default color scheme of most Linux terminals...ugh.

Maximize that terminal window on a 16:9 display when connected to a device that only gives 80 characters wide output as the final mail in the coffin.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by bluedino »

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 size of the parens/brackets/braces ruin the entire font for me.

Good thing they are many others.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by Sugimot0 »

xipix wrote: post #194

Why are people still using mono fonts in 2023? There are very few reasons not to love proportional fonts in your IDE.

For IDE i can't speak but, they're necessary for terminal/textual ui's like vim, emacs, kakoune, helix, lazygit, etc.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by web3-is-a-scam »

I’m such a sucker for monospace fonts. It’ll be hard to beat the comfort with the custom build of Iosevka I created painstakingly over the course of about a month trying different combinations of the available characters to find what felt the most pleasant to my eyes but I’m looking forward to trying it out.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by Turing_Machine »

blahedo wrote: post #95
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 disting…

You make an excellent point, but I can't help but think there are ways to make curlies visually distinctive without also making them look like poorly-done graffiti tags. There's no accounting for taste, but to me those are just plain ugly.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by smegsicle »

berkle4455 wrote: post #45
veidr wrote: post #16

Looks very readable, but for me personally, ligatures for things like ->, =>, = and those weird JavaScriptisms like == vs === has really become table stakes for me. Didn't care about that at all until about 2020, but can't imagine using a coding font without those features today.

Ligatures? Might as well use Comic Sans.

i for one don't think you can even call yourself a programming font if you don't have a ligature for every two-digit hexadecimal

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by sitkack »

fwlr wrote: post #67
sitkack wrote: post #46

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What do you think of https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

I like it a lot! Definitely in the camp of “comic sans is over-hated for poor reasons, and might even have legibility benefits for dyslexia”, and I considered a few comic sans inspired monospaced fonts before settling on Source Code Pro. The leaders were Fantasque ( https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/ ) and Comic Code ( https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code ). (Comic Code’s creator actually links to the font you…

I appreciate how Comic Sans was used by educators to find something that helped people with dyslexia, while also breaking down the serious barrier. SPJ[1] from Haskell would use Comic Sans in his slides, which seems oddly humorous to me.

Below are fonts are designed to minimize the effects of dyslexia.

https://www.dyslexiefont.com/

https://opendyslexic.org/

https://www.k-type.com/fonts/lexie-readable/

[1] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sweirich/icfp-plmw15/slides/peyto...

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by cratermoon »

eviks wrote: post #56
cratermoon wrote: post #23

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I|1l 0Oo gq S5

This kind of string should be in all the basic font examples

For sure, especially for fonts geared towards programmers and technical uses where numbers and symbols matter a great deal. A person could probably figure out that he110 is "hello" but as identifiers, he110 and hello are not interchangeable.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by cjohnson318 »

nine_k wrote: post #98
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.

I love bland. I agree that they should be very clear and legible, but I think they should to match the rest of the typeface.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by cjohnson318 »

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

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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?

I didn't see that until you mentioned it. The curly braces distracted me.
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