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Victor Mono Typeface

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Re: Victor Mono Typeface

#91

Post by romwell »

crazygringo wrote: post #21

I'm generally pretty supportive of new typefaces, but this one strikes me as... not very legible. The x-height is so uncommonly high it makes it genuinely difficult to distinguish between uppercase/ascending and lowercase letters at a glance (e.g. 'U' vs 'u', or 'h' vs. 'n'), and similarly the descender is so tiny it makes it hard to distinguish certain letters at a glance (e.g. 'q' vs 'p'). The whole point of large-…

To add to that, my expectation of fonts is that the italic version follows the same style as the non-italic version (same goes for bold).

Having a typewriter-like font whose italics version looks like handwritten cursive breaks this expectation. If it was meant for code comments, the solution is to configure the IDE to use a different font and not to hack the format.

Victor Mono is two fonts in a trenchcoat for no good reason.

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

#92

Post by tln »

crazygringo wrote: post #21

I'm generally pretty supportive of new typefaces, but this one strikes me as... not very legible. The x-height is so uncommonly high it makes it genuinely difficult to distinguish between uppercase/ascending and lowercase letters at a glance (e.g. 'U' vs 'u', or 'h' vs. 'n'), and similarly the descender is so tiny it makes it hard to distinguish certain letters at a glance (e.g. 'q' vs 'p'). The whole point of large-…

Verdana also has a high x-height, in fact for legibility, many road sign fonts have a high x-height as well. This font does have an unusually high x-height, but IMO its very well done. Capitals and lowercase are very distinct.

The cursive thing isn't my cup of tea, but there are oblique versions too.

Overall I think this font has a lot of character. Kudos to the designer, nice work!

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

#93

Post by L0stLink »

Though ligatures when I first saw them looked really cool but trying them out I quickly realized how much I hated actually reading and writing code with them turned on. Cursive has also been an odd choice for monospace fonts to me, I don't like how they break the expected uniformity of the monospace text. Varying font weight, color and using italics has always been enough for me.

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

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Post by ShadowBanThis01 »

rubjo wrote: post #45
crazygringo wrote: post #21

I'm generally pretty supportive of new typefaces, but this one strikes me as... not very legible. The x-height is so uncommonly high it makes it genuinely difficult to distinguish between uppercase/ascending and lowercase letters at a glance (e.g. 'U' vs 'u', or 'h' vs. 'n'), and similarly the descender is so tiny it makes it hard to distinguish certain letters at a glance (e.g. 'q' vs 'p'). The whole point of large-…

Typeface designer here. Thanks for trying the font and having lots of thoughts about it. I guess the point is that it wasn’t first and foremost designed to follow as many font design principles as possible. If that’s what’s important to you, pick a font that follows as many of these principles as possible. :D In the end, I guess I don’t really care whether I use 157ms to parse a sentence instead of 158 - although to…

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Re: Victor Mono Typeface

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Post by caslon »

romwell wrote: post #86
rubjo wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Typeface designer here. Thanks for trying the font and having lots of thoughts about it. I guess the point is that it wasn’t first and foremost designed to follow as many font design principles as possible. If that’s what’s important to you, pick a font that follows as many of these principles as possible. :D In the end, I guess I don’t really care whether I use 157ms to parse a sentence instead of 158 - although to…

Feels like your response could be abbreviated for clarity: >Thanks for trying the font and having lots of thoughts about it [...] In the end, I guess I don’t really care

What's wrong with that? A person isn't obligated to have an open source maintainer care about their opinions on where their project should go, even if it can be helpful for them to consider objections. Especially when the opinions are simply, "Your entire set of principles are wrong, and this is aggressively bad."

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

#98

Post by ReleaseCandidat »

benrutter wrote: post #30

I'm curious, does anybody else change their terminal/editor font about once every two months only to immediately decide."no I don't like change" and go back to their standard? (In my case JetBrains Mono) I'd don't know if it's that I genuinely prefer that font, or just that I've spent so long looking at it my brain can't handle anything else.

Just happened to me too, I've tried some I found at https://www.programmingfonts.org/. I again returned to using Hasklig - Source Code pro with Ligatures - in the editor.

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

#100

Post by drewlesueur »

I like this font. The large x-height is nice for small sizes. Yea large x-height has drawbacks but it's nice to have this option.

I like the squareish appearance too. Also the lines feel like they could have been drawn with a pencil or engraving tool, which looks cool to me.

Thanks for the font. It's been one of my favorites lately.

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