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Re: B612 Font Family

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Post by tangwwwei »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #12

I tried out the monospace font for terminal use, but some of the punctuation characters have terrible spacing, including : and ., so things like abc::xyz and some_expression .method() .method(); look awful.

yes i ran into problem with distinguishing between ; and : as well on this monospace font. i'll say it was fun to try it and i used it for awhile but it isnt suitable for coding purposes. im much more happy now with a highly customizable font like Input[0] where i can make it as wide or as narrow as i like it to be and also customize the various characters

[0]: https://input.djr.com/

Re: B612 Font Family

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Post by tangwwwei »

chaosprint wrote: post #27

It's very interesting that I picked this font for my live coding language: https://quaverseries.web.app/ The main reason is that I need to use a syntax to represent a music sequencer such as ___65. B612 can separate two or more underscores perfectly. For a long time, it's always my first choice of coding font although I have no idea on its origin. I just feel it looks great when I browse all Google fonts. But it's gr…

it does look great on ur site!

Re: B612 Font Family

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Post by dessimus »

Anyone else just learning about Université de Toulouse III? Did the first one sink into the swamp, followed by the second one burning down, falling over, then sinking into the swamp?

Re: B612 Font Family

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Post by ernesth »

dessimus wrote: post #43

Anyone else just learning about Université de Toulouse III? Did the first one sink into the swamp, followed by the second one burning down, falling over, then sinking into the swamp?

There are in fact 3 universities in Toulouse: Toulouse I-Capitole, Toulouse Jean Jaurès (used to be Toulouse II-Le Mirail), and Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier. And since it would be absurd to have just those three universities they are part of a group called "Université de Toulouse" (formerly Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées) which also counts a number of schools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_University_of_Toulouse....

Re: B612 Font Family

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Post by gyrodiot »

dessimus wrote: post #43

Anyone else just learning about Université de Toulouse III? Did the first one sink into the swamp, followed by the second one burning down, falling over, then sinking into the swamp?

Ha! No, that's just the local naming since Toulouse has several of them, they have proper names in addition to the numbering. Toulouse I Capitole is (mostly) law and economics, Toulouse II Jean Jaurès is (mostly) social sciences/humanities/linguistics and Toulouse III Paul Sabatier is (mostly) STEM.

My alma mater is technically Université de Toulouse, the federating entity that formally gives the diploma, but the existence of such entities depends on the city, each university has its own head and administration. My grad school lab was attached to Toulouse III.

Re: B612 Font Family

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Post by jhanschoo »

chrismorgan wrote: post #25

A question on tracking/letter-spacing. In my browser, I always use my own font choices (Firefox: Settings → Fonts → Advanced… → untick Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above), which makes me more sensitive to certain sorts of modifications: most significantly, I observe how unreasonably common it is for pages to change the whole document’s letter-spacing, normally to a positive value.…

Typesetting for labels as is the case with this font is probably more suitable for wide tracking for legibility than fonts for text.

Re: B612 Font Family

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Post by nazka »

dessimus wrote: post #43

Anyone else just learning about Université de Toulouse III? Did the first one sink into the swamp, followed by the second one burning down, falling over, then sinking into the swamp?

As a French I like your description better.

Re: B612 Font Family

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Post by nazka »

zoidb wrote: post #24

Another font that has a similar aim is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible I find that it strikes a balance between aesthetics and legibility. Two differences I noticed immediately are the 0 and I characters which are much more difficult to distinguish with this font.

Thanks you for sharing, it's very interesting.

Re: B612 Font Family

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Post by PedroBatista »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #12

I tried out the monospace font for terminal use, but some of the punctuation characters have terrible spacing, including : and ., so things like abc::xyz and some_expression .method() .method(); look awful.

Maybe that's on purpose to discourage airplane pilots from coding their own JS scripts inside the plane.

Re: B612 Font Family

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Post by jna_sh »

zoidb wrote: post #24

Another font that has a similar aim is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible I find that it strikes a balance between aesthetics and legibility. Two differences I noticed immediately are the 0 and I characters which are much more difficult to distinguish with this font.

Huge endorsement for Atkinson Hyperlegible from me. As someone with horrible and declining eyesight in multiple ways, it has improved my computing experience a lot.

There’s been a couple of attempts at making a monospace version, I currently use the one by Edward Shin in my editors and terminal https://github.com/Hylian/atkinson-monolegible

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