The website and typeface(s) design look like they took a tremendous amount of work.
Monaspace
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Re: Monaspace
#142This is definitely one of the nicer of the 100’s of monospaced fonts. But my personal preference remains Consolas.
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#143I 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.
I am a big fan of Protesilaos Stavrou's custom "Iosevka Comfy" build (https://github.com/protesilaos/iosevka-comfy). This is probably the best font ever designed to my eyes, even more than my paid version of PragmataPro.
Here is a screenshot of Iosevka Comfy in action: https://share.combo.cc/-bN9f8hAiiG
and Iosevka Comfy Motion, with tasteful serifs: https://share.combo.cc/-BNHfhV4zgu
Re: Monaspace
#144The "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.
So many people here are now praising texture healing, but to me its just half-way measure. Why are we as a community so resistant for adopting variable-width fonts? This texture healing already breaks perfect character cell grid, so in some ways it feels like worst of both worlds. I feel at least partially the same about fancy ligatures; we could just use the actual characters in source code, Unicode is widely suppor…
To build on to sibling chrismorgan's excellent post, fixed-width fonts/ASCII art/Unicode drawing are a really elegant way to get 80% of what you'd ever want. Getting to 100% involves a full-on rendering system and markup which is 10x the work and complexity. To date, most people don't want that in their editor.
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#145Part of me loves texture healing, part of me hates it, but I think enough of me likes it to maybe give it a try. Did find a "bug" or something where a bunch of "///////" goes out of whack though.
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#146With all these different faces being displayed at once, this risks being the typographical equivalent of "Angry Fruit Salad" syntax highlighting…
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's languages where a slashed circle is a letter, and a slashed zero makes things confusing. Dotted zeroes have much less opportunity for confusion in that direction. I guess type designers could emphasise the convex sides of a dotted zero with the concave sides of an "8" to keep them visually distinct, but I don't know if this font does that.
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I figured he was referring to Ø used in Danish.
Re: Monaspace
#148The "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.
Commit Mono font does something similar and calls it “Smart kerning”. Visit https://commitmono.com/ and click on the “04 Intelligent” tab for details. In practice this is unusable. Because the width of the letters now depends on the succeeding character, the text jumps as you write it. Super annoying. Cool for reading. Awful for writing.
Unrelated, but why is it that Font marketing pages specifically always have such cool-looking demoes? I love the navigation on that site, I might steal that for my own site
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#149Re: Monaspace
#150The "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.
Meh... not convinced. Once you have toggled the checkbox a few times, you start noticing inconsistencies: e.g. in the example shown by default, the second "m" in "time_limit" is obviously wider than the first one because it has more space to "grow" having "i"s on both sides. Not sure if I like this...