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Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

#6

I recently discovered Monaspace [0] and was fairly impressed by its texture healing feature, besides generally looking nice. And it's free. [0] https://monaspace.githubnext.com/

This is awesome, I'll try it out when I get back to the office. Very nice find

Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

#7
super annoying web design from a graphic design company to show a typeface that purports its goal is to "get out of the way" so you can be productive, why not show some calm examples of text as in a terminal at a normal typesize? I had to zoom out to 60% just to tame it, and yet there was still blinking all over the place and nothing that approximated anything other than a phone screen.

does something about this typeface set it apart in a useful way from the zillion other free or default monospaced options? If anything it seemed a little awkward with the flourishes they added toward making it look fauxCR-able. (an artistic flourish I like as "zany graphic fun" but is it helpful for extended use?)

for the people who love it, I've no problem with enjoying flourishes, but it's calling itself serious. I'm serious and it's not taking me seriously.

Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

#8

I recently discovered Monaspace [0] and was fairly impressed by its texture healing feature, besides generally looking nice. And it's free. [0] https://monaspace.githubnext.com/

This is actually very legible and pleasing to eye. I was mostly using JetBrains Mono until I found Monaspace randomly and it is currently now default.

Can highly recommend, also it is free and has several styles(x5).

Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

#9
The trial (license valid for 7 days) is "Limited to ASCII-128 character set" but also says:

>Swapped: '/' and '\', '*' and '#'

Is that latter a common sort of thing in this scenario? I get the idea—certainly makes coding/terminal/markdown annoying—but I don't think I've seen that done elsewhere.

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