Lowercase f and r are ugly.
Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs
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Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs
#12As an alternative, I would suggest to consider Iosevka [0].
I am using it in the browser and for coding.
Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs
#13I can't put my finger on it but I don't find this enjoyable to read at all.. so I don't know much about readability claims here. Maybe I'm an outlier.
Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs
#14I can't put my finger on it but I don't find this enjoyable to read at all.. so I don't know much about readability claims here. Maybe I'm an outlier.
I know nothing whatsoever about readability but this almost makes me ill to read. Very unsettling.
Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs
#15Line spacing is way too tight.
It makes their paragraphs hard to read regardless of the font.
Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs
#16Lowercase f and r are ugly.
Especially “r”, horrible.
Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs
#17I can't put my finger on it but I don't find this enjoyable to read at all.. so I don't know much about readability claims here. Maybe I'm an outlier.
Type writer fonts are hard to read in general. Kerning leads to readability in general.
Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs
#18So, if you're going to demonstrate the box drawing characters — and in a monospaced font, I would — they should line up?
E.g., under "lines", the rows are overlapping; https://i.imgur.com/KnOP2Wu.png ; I would think they're only supposed to just touch, with no gap, no overlap.
The boxes, similarly, don't quite line up right. https://i.imgur.com/6pVYh9a.png (Even the 100% box isn't lining up right, although somehow what FF screenshotted != what it rendered. sigh.) The point being, you want these to tile seamlessly. Oddly, they tile differently in the pictures-of-font that break up the page. (Which I'm not sure what they're supposed to be? One is called "5af1d7a5-fa60-4827-9b4f-808cdb635d59" and has no alt text. They remind me of Dwarf Fortress though.)
As other people hint, this seems like the line height is cramped. I/l/1 ambiguities is a deal breaker for any terminal font, though.
Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs
#19Much good there but l and 1 are identical.
I use proportional fonts for coding that don’t really distinguish between 1 and l, it doesn’t seem to matter in practice.