Monaspace

The "Texture Healing" feature is a really smart use of OpenType features to make problematic monospace combinations look much better without breaking the grid at all.

One naive way to do this would be to create ligature pairs for difficult pairs (mi, lm, etc). But instead, they seem to be selecting character alternates that fill the fixed width differently based on their surroundings.

Re: Monaspace

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Post by dpc_01234 » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 8:51 PM UTC

I was initially thinking ... "OK, another monospace font (family), look nice", until I got to "texture healing" which really made me want to try it out.

I really like the idea of using different style of font for different things, but as primarily terminal user, I don't even know which terminals support it (if any), and then we would need CLI text editors support as well. But I think it's a great idea.

Re: Monaspace

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Post by helix278 » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 8:53 PM UTC

How would you configure a text editor or terminal to use different fonts based on syntax (e.g. neon for code, argon for comments)?

Re: Monaspace

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

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Re: Monaspace

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Post by markcollin » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 9:07 PM UTC

going to try this out.. clever font name ;)

Re: Monaspace

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Post by leipert » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 9:22 PM UTC

helix278 wrote: post #6

How would you configure a text editor or terminal to use different fonts based on syntax (e.g. neon for code, argon for comments)?

In vscode probably easy because it is all CSS?

Other editors/terminal emulators would probably need to add support for this.

Re: Monaspace

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Post by aquir » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 9:24 PM UTC

I keep using Berkeley Mono! That font is just perfect! This font and the styles are a bit wonky for me...