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Lower case 'l' on Radon looks too much like a 'Z'. It needs rounder tails.
I like everything about this! Font families seem like an incredible idea that I'm surprised nobody's done before, variable fonts are new to me and super interesting, textural healing seems like a huge step forward, and damn if that isn't one of the smoothest sites I've ever played with. Nice work!
> Font families seem like an incredible idea that I'm surprised nobody's done before Oh this has been done for decades . Metafont (by the inimitable Don Knuth) let you describe glyphs as toolpaths in code. You could have as many parameters as you wanted; I've seen examples where a sans-serif is smoothly swept into a serif. Metafont never got adopted as much as I would have hoped; the lack of a graphical editor and so…
% ttfmono MonaspaceArgon-Regular.otf
monospaced flag = 0
(0 = variable-width, otherwise = monospaced)
I was able to see ligatures and text healing in vim running in a patched st* though. I really like it thanks! The text healing only moves the line subtly as I type and when I cursor over there are no droppings from the widened 'm' for example. It's well thought-out for code.
If I could ask for a feature it would be to select some variants, like angular 0 with reverse slash or to leave the ! in the != ligature. To see what I mean: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/main/doc/stylistic-...
Is there a trick to getting these to work in Sublime Text? I normally use Source Code Pro, which also comes in a bunch of variations, and I can set font_face to "Source Code Pro Medium" or "Source Code Pro Semibold Italic" and I get the right result. But setting it to "Monataype Krypton Medium" doesn't work at all. "Monatype Krypton" does, but the Regular variants are too skinny.
I enjoy the idea, but I do wonder why we don't see more condensed fonts like PragmataPro. I've been using it for close to a decade and I'd love to see more options in the space, but no-one seems willing to go that narrow. Berkeley Graphics has been promising a condensed version of Berkeley Mono for almost a year but nothing has happened there. Even Monaspace here has a width slider, which starts at "wider than Pragma…
Iosevka is pretty narrow and also popular. Not sure if it meets your definition, but might be worth a look.
Is there a trick to getting these to work in Sublime Text? I normally use Source Code Pro, which also comes in a bunch of variations, and I can set font_face to "Source Code Pro Medium" or "Source Code Pro Semibold Italic" and I get the right result. But setting it to "Monataype Krypton Medium" doesn't work at all. "Monatype Krypton" does, but the Regular variants are too skinny.
Is there a functional purpose to Krypton? If it just looks cool, that's fine; I just wonder what I don't know about mono fonts. Edit and OT: Interesting HN algorithm behavior: I just wrote two posts in this thread (on different topics). The first appeared at the top of the page, as usual for new comments. When I clicked "Submit" on the second one, it appeared below the first one. My guess is that it was because it's…
It does not set the mono flag, so I had to try it with GTK2 gvim to even load the font: % ttfmono MonaspaceArgon-Regular.otf monospaced flag = 0 (0 = variable-width, otherwise = monospaced) Sadly I think that because of that flag it does not enable ligatures. I was able to see ligatures and text healing in vim running in a patched st* though. I really like it thanks! The text healing only moves the line subtly as I t…