Texture Healing for Monospace Fonts • Hacker News Board

Re: Texture Healing for Monospace Fonts

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Post by matj1 » Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 10:32 PM UTC

eichin wrote: post #38

andix wrote: post #23

Tried it here: https://monaspace.githubnext.com/ It might be nice for reading code, but for editing code it feels weird that glyphs change their size while you type. Also readability wise I'm not convinced. In the example there is a combination like "_m_", in this case the lette m is much nicer to read. But then i typed "mml", which makes the two m's very different looking. Also the line number 10 on top of 11 looks…

Huh, on a linux desktop the "own voice" example just seems to change height and weight and nothing else. (Still horrible, but it just looks like it's "breathing".) On mobile (android chrome), it looked like it was changing in more dimensions, I'd almost call it "writhing". I hope "reduced animation" turns this kind of thing off (but I couldn't find the setting in chrome at a quick look...)

That seems like Chromium is trying to do some hinting, which would ideally make the glyphs fit better to pixels, but it corrupts smooth transitions.

Re: Texture Healing for Monospace Fonts

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Post by matj1 » Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 10:44 PM UTC

notpushkin wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if the name “Texture Healing” is descriptive enough (perhaps I'm not that much of a typography nerd I think I am!), but I love the idea. Basically it resolves pairs or triplets of monospace letters to make some of them wider when adjacent letter can be made narrower instead. Another variation on that theme are “duospace fonts”, like iA Writer Duo [1]. Those use two character widths instead of one (i.e. w…

Duospace fonts are limitedly proportional, but still with no upsides of monospace fonts. Rather than that, I recommend something more proportional like iA Writer Quattro, Input Sans and Recursive Sans. https://input.djr.com/ https://www.recursive.design/

Re: Texture Healing for Monospace Fonts

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Post by andix » Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 10:48 AM UTC

thih9 wrote: post #74

pikelet wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please stop diluting words like objectively for things that you just feel strongly about.

This ship has literally sailed, hyperbole continues to affect our language whether we want it or not.

I think it became more common, especially public communication became much stronger (politics, news, corporate communications).

In human to human communication those changes don't necessarily apply. Even the politicians that are most violent with their words in speeches are often completely "normal" once the cameras are turned off.