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Victor Mono Typeface

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Re: Victor Mono Typeface

#32

Post by ssgodderidge »

Awesome font, but not for me. The kerning is just too small for a text editor for my eyes. I bet others would like it.

The side-by-side comparison tool with different fonts is AMAZING. Major props to the designer. Every font site should do that. I loved immediately comparing the font vs my current font _in browser_, without downloading any files.

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

#34

Post by politelemon »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #22

Sorry, ligatures are not for me. I don't get it. Why would you ever want symbols to collapse like that in a functional monospace font? Just looks like a bunch of funky unicode characters peppered throughout my source. And my caret can travel _inside_ one of these special marks? No thanks.

I sometimes feels there's now a race between typefacers to stuff as many ligatures as possible to the point that it's bordering in indecipherability and clownishness. There's definitely an audience for this though, else why would they do it.

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

#37

Post by kstrauser »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #22

Sorry, ligatures are not for me. I don't get it. Why would you ever want symbols to collapse like that in a functional monospace font? Just looks like a bunch of funky unicode characters peppered throughout my source. And my caret can travel _inside_ one of these special marks? No thanks.

I love ligatures, solely because I think they look pretty on my own screen. I especially like that our ASCII art arrows like -> are now little arrow pictures.

Emacs’s ligatures.el handles this nicely: you configure which specific ligatures you want to enable on a per-font basis. Want only -> and only in Berkeley Mono? Only turn that one on.

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

#39

Post by chalsprhebaodu »

politelemon wrote: post #34
RadiozRadioz wrote: post #22

Sorry, ligatures are not for me. I don't get it. Why would you ever want symbols to collapse like that in a functional monospace font? Just looks like a bunch of funky unicode characters peppered throughout my source. And my caret can travel _inside_ one of these special marks? No thanks.

I sometimes feels there's now a race between typefacers to stuff as many ligatures as possible to the point that it's bordering in indecipherability and clownishness. There's definitely an audience for this though, else why would they do it.

Have you considered that it’s not indecipherable or clownish and perhaps you are a part of a group that just doesn’t get it?
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