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Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by logbiscuitswave »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #4

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/

Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack (https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a try. It looks really nice and the price is right. The font in the OP looks great too, but I can’t bring myself to pay for it. Not when there’s so many great alternatives out there at no cost.

Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by StevePerkins »

fsckboy wrote: post #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 type…

$75 license. I assume they want people to be wow'ed by the unrealistic zoom shots, and pay money before realizing that it's little different from JetBrains Mono or Roboto Mono in a real-world editor or terminal.

Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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StevePerkins wrote: post #12
fsckboy wrote: post #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 type…

$75 license. I assume they want people to be wow'ed by the unrealistic zoom shots, and pay money before realizing that it's little different from JetBrains Mono or Roboto Mono in a real-world editor or terminal.

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Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by neilpanchal »

fsckboy wrote: post #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 type…

Fair criticism about samples, launching new update and it'll have better samples. Also, you're welcome to download the trial—best way to see how it looks in your specific setup.

I don't agree with your take on flourishes (in better terms, artistry). Every typeface has it. The process of designing a typeface is full of subjectivity and artistry.

Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by [deleted] »

Amorymeltzer wrote: post #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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Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by airstrike »

logbiscuitswave wrote: post #11
jdthedisciple wrote: post #4

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/

Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack ( https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ ) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a try. It looks really nice and the price is right. The font in the OP looks great too, but I can’t bring myself to pay for it. Not when there’s so many great alternatives out there at no cost.

I was the same until I started using Fira Code and don't think I'll ever go back to anything else. the ligatures are worth it

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by naet »

I like the font and was thinking about putting it on my blog, but $75 seems like a lot when there are other pretty good options. Maybe I'll test the free version and see if I love it..

Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

#20

Post by oktwtf »

Berkeley Mono is my favourite! It's the crossed seven that matches my handwritten style which I really appreciate. Not very common in other monospace fonts I've tried.

I really enjoy this font for development and writing documentation. I carry it around for everything. Default monospace across the board: Terminal, IDE, Notes; sometimes I go buck-wild and monospace the entire Desktop-Environment to match.

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