Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
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Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
#2Not trying to be negative, just confused: I don't really see how this font is "designed for symbol-heavy languages". The symbols look normal to me. Maybe the letters are a little more spaced? I'd love to be enlightened.
Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
#3Not trying to be negative, just confused: I don't really see how this font is "designed for symbol-heavy languages". The symbols look normal to me. Maybe the letters are a little more spaced? I'd love to be enlightened.
>Near-Perfect Alignment: multi-character symbols like ->, >>=, =~, :: align seamlessly
The GitHub page has a list with 5 items of what was the focus, this is the first (and I think the most easily noticeable) area
Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
#4Not trying to be negative, just confused: I don't really see how this font is "designed for symbol-heavy languages". The symbols look normal to me. Maybe the letters are a little more spaced? I'd love to be enlightened.
designer here. by symbol-heavy languages i mean languages like Perl and Haskell which make heavy use of symbols (sigils in Perl and operators in Haskell). Myna was designed after my frustration with other monospace fonts combined with my (self-imposed) inability to use ligatures.
Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
#5I appreciate the effort, but the result kind of shows why usually symbols are aligned as they are. Dashes, colons, angle brackets — all look way too high next to lowercase letter. I assume this stems from trying to align everything with brackets, and those are aligned with uppercase letters kind of naturally. But I don't think the tradeoff is worth it.
Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
#6Not trying to be negative, just confused: I don't really see how this font is "designed for symbol-heavy languages". The symbols look normal to me. Maybe the letters are a little more spaced? I'd love to be enlightened.
>Near-Perfect Alignment: multi-character symbols like ->, >>=, =~, :: align seamlessly The GitHub page has a list with 5 items of what was the focus, this is the first (and I think the most easily noticeable) area
I wonder why only near-perfect.
Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
#7A rust example is conspicuously missing from the README.
Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
#8I appreciate the effort, but the result kind of shows why usually symbols are aligned as they are. Dashes, colons, angle brackets — all look way too high next to lowercase letter. I assume this stems from trying to align everything with brackets, and those are aligned with uppercase letters kind of naturally. But I don't think the tradeoff is worth it.
i understand the point you raise. but i believe symbols are generally aligned as they are because most fonts are designed for text and many monospace fonts respect those typographic traditions.
but i think code is not text and breaking some tradition improves readability.
the dash (hyphen) is actually supposed to align with the greater than symbol to resemble the arrow (extremely common symbol in C and many functional languages).
Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
#9I despise this style of curly braces where the arms look more like “S” than like “ʃ”. Don’t go backwards! :)
Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
#10A rust example is conspicuously missing from the README.
please check the illustrations below.