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Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

#42

Post by rjmorris »

queuebert wrote: post #6
malodyets wrote: post #2

Much good there but l and 1 are identical.

To be fair, they did say it was inspired by typewriters, and most old typewriters don't have a '1', so you type a lowercase 'l' instead.

How did they type '2' on those old typewriters?

Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

#43

Post by hoppyhoppy2 »

rjmorris wrote: post #42
queuebert wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, they did say it was inspired by typewriters, and most old typewriters don't have a '1', so you type a lowercase 'l' instead.

How did they type '2' on those old typewriters?

There was a "2" key, just no "1" key on some models.

Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

#45

Post by ghostly_s »

A single weight font doesn't really meet the needs of modern CLI environments does it?

And I don't get what the ASCII art have to do with anything. What does it depict? Screenshots from some scifi movie?

And finally oh god, l and 1 are literally the same.

Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

#46

Post by jmprspret »

ghostly_s wrote: post #45

A single weight font doesn't really meet the needs of modern CLI environments does it? And I don't get what the ASCII art have to do with anything. What does it depict? Screenshots from some scifi movie? And finally oh god, l and 1 are literally the same .

Wait what? Do you seriously need bold fonts in your terminal? I find them annoying. I would much prefer a single weight.

Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

#47

Post by bbor »

deathanatos wrote: post #18

So, 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 wh…

Yeah it's driving me crazy honestly -- why put art on there if it's not recognizable as anything?? It does indeed look like the overworld from DF, but not quite coherent enough...

FWIW everyone's complaining about this so I'll throw in the recent monospace release that absolutely blew me away: https://monaspace.githubnext.com/ Who needs hackers when you have Microsoft the evil tech conglomerate pumping out fonts, anyway?

Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

#48

Post by eddyg »

GlacierFox wrote: post #44
eddyg wrote: post #34

I’ll just mention Berkeley Graphics and the excellent Berkeley Mono. https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/

$75? Haha Holy s...

I also highly recommend PragmataPro⁽¹⁾ if you prefer more characters per line. It’s €199 for the complete typeface, but well worth it for something you interact with for many hours per day, every day. More than 9000 characters have been hand-optimized from 9pt to 48pt to guarantee the best possible readability. (You can start off with the “Essentials” variant for only €19, which is definitely a bargain!)

⁽¹⁾ https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

#49

Post by bitvoid »

bbor wrote: post #47
deathanatos wrote: post #18

So, 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 wh…

Yeah it's driving me crazy honestly -- why put art on there if it's not recognizable as anything?? It does indeed look like the overworld from DF, but not quite coherent enough... FWIW everyone's complaining about this so I'll throw in the recent monospace release that absolutely blew me away: https://monaspace.githubnext.com/ Who needs hackers when you have Microsoft the evil tech conglomerate pumping out fonts, any…

Another good Microsoft monospace font: Cascadia. Something about it just makes it super legible for me when coding in it, plus it has nerd fonts built in without needing to be patched.

https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code

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