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Re: Victor Mono Typeface

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Post by crazygringo »

rntz wrote: post #107
crazygringo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, IBM Selectric Scribe (towards the bottom of the page): http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-44934.html It was a bit of a "novelty" font for typewriters. Almost like the Comic Sans of its day. It wasn't meant to be used as italics, it was for typing a fun invitation or more "personal" letter or something like that. I can't find any information on it specifically though, whether it was the first. It wouldn't surprise me i…

I think that's actually IBM Selectric Script, not Scribe (the images are labelled at the bottom not the top). https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10922/script-ibm finds two uses of it.

Quite right, thanks for the correction!

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

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Post by rubjo »

tentacleuno wrote: post #111
doc_gunthrop wrote: post #75

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Not OP but there were some decent ones in the comparison box w/ the slider (such as Source Code Pro). Deja Vu Sans Mono is another good one.

I daily Inconsolata (well, technically the ligaturized version). I find it extremely legible, and most importantly, it's easy on the eyes. A lot of programming fonts tend to be too angular for my tastes (I've tried SF Mono and plenty others, and settled on Inconsolata.) Really, programming fonts are down to taste -- there's not objectively a best one; for an example of that, look in this thread: some people like Vict…

Thank you for being a voice of reason :)

+1 for Inconsolata, by the way, lovely font!

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

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Post by Dutchie987 »

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-…

I find the italic cursive very pleasing and not hard to read at all. It looks exactly like the worksheets I had in elementary school when learning how to write. My handwriting was never that neat but many people in my class had exactly this 'font' when writing. That was a long time ago...

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

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Post by rubjo »

drewlesueur wrote: post #100

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.

Thank you for trying it out, and for sober and positive feedback :)

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

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Post by roland35 »

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…

Hey that's the beautiful thing about being human, in my opinion :) we all prefer different things and that is OK! Otherwise, we wouldn't need menus at any restaurant since everyone would just get the same "food".

Fwiw I like the font and I'm looking forward to trying it out!

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

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Post by rubjo »

ssgodderidge wrote: post #32

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.

Glad you liked the compare view :)

Yeah, I know it’s a bit compressed, that’s the way I prefer it though.

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

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Post by rubjo »

ssgodderidge wrote: post #110
gnarlouse wrote: post #105

Fonts have become such a fetish, it's weird.

I mean, why do we wear the clothes we do? Why not other clothes? Why do we choose the art we collect? Why do some people care about art, and some don't? Why do we follow the sports? Why do some people follow football while others care about cricket? Different people care about different things. Why should we judge what people care about?

This comment is almost too intelligent to be posted here, but I really enjoyed it.

Re: Victor Mono Typeface

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Post by rubjo »

amelius wrote: post #55

Big fan of Iosevka Term Regular for programming. The condensed font takes a day or two to get used to, but it gives you a lot of extra screen space. https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

Iosevka is such a nice font, ever-evolving, and surely what I would have used if I hadn’t enjoyed Victor Mono more :)
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