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Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by eviks »

cratermoon wrote: post #208
eviks wrote: post #56

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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.

yeah, that's where all those huge font cataloging websites could shine (and also allow you to filter fonts based on this, eg, all zeroes should have some mark in the middle not be confused with the letter O), yet they settle on some bland pangram

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by jasonm23 »

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…

For me it's the doublethink trade-show signage.

I like the font, though, not as much as Source Code Pro Nerd ExtraLight.

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Post by Gertm »

sitkack wrote: post #46
fwlr wrote: post #11

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…

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

Love these kinds of fonts.

I've used Recursive Mono Casual for all my coding for years now and I love it. ( https://www.recursive.design )

The italics are nicely distinctive from the normal font. Everything super legible.

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Post by michaelcampbell »

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

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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?

It's truly amazing that people can like different things, no?

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by michaelcampbell »

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 I haven't seen a monospaced font superior to Courier New.

"To this day I haven't seen a monospaced font that I like more than Courier New", surely.

What is your quantitative measure for this, and what are the values of the other fonts you've tried?

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Post by CGamesPlay »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #87
grzm wrote: post #85

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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).

Found an example: https://api.slack.com/events/url_verification#markdown>

It appears to be because of `font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures` being set on body.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by precompute »

ar7hur wrote: post #29

I don't understand how a hardware company who just reported its largest quarterly loss in history with revenue down 36% year-over-year [1] is working on fonts. Or maybe this explains that. [1] https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1615/...

An improved visual identity usually leads to much better brand recognition and sales.

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Post by ShadowBanThis01 »

KronisLV wrote: post #189
ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #185

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Liberation Mono is not bad. Sadly, Liberation Sans is a no-go because it lacks crossbars on the capital "i". Such an annoying failing of so many sans fonts.

> Such an annoying failing of so many sans fonts. Here's an example of some fonts, for anyone curious: https://i.imgur.com/jYA6jt3.png Some fonts like Arial are bad at this, capital "I" and lowercase "L" look the same. Calibri and Liberation sans both have slight differences, but not enough to not be confusing. Some fonts like Open Sans have crossbars on capital "I", which solves this problem. But that's not the only…

Thanks! I compiled a list of sans-serif fonts with acceptable capital "i" and zero/O distinction a while back... but don't have it on hand. But it's a lot faster to go to fonts.google.com, select sans-serif, and change the example text to "Does this have a proper I and O and 0" and start scrolling!

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by ggm »

I tried it, and I didn't see enough advantage over other monospaced fonts routinely available to me on a Mac.

It was quite line-width dense, almost like boldening (but not: I checked and the boldface was quite distinct) which I like: some people go for thin lines and they look great but they don't always aide comprehension.

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