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I despise this style of curly braces where the arms look more like “S” than like “ʃ”. Don’t go backwards! :)
Not 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.
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>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.
I 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 functiona…
I despise this style of curly braces where the arms look more like “S” than like “ʃ”. Don’t go backwards! :)
a few others have raised the same point. in my defense i can only say that i adore that particular style because it looks more like what i draw by hand.
It's perfect. Please don't change anything about it.
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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.
Apl, BQN and Oiua would like to talk to you.
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Apl, BQN and Oiua would like to talk to you.
And some proof assistant languages and frameworks. For a second I was really excited there, but this is another font with “programming ligatures”.
languages which insist on using full Unicode like APL and Agda have bigger problems (availability of uniform glyphs and inconsistency with monospace design) on their plates. which imo is one reason why full Unicode editing hasn't really caught up.
Myna doesn't use any ligatures though. it would run on almost all terminals and editors.