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Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by andrewl-hn »

sayyadirfanali wrote: post #19
andrewl-hn wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And some proof assistant languages and frameworks. For a second I was really excited there, but this is another font with “programming ligatures”.

i know the title can be a bit misleading but Myna is primarily ASCII. 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.

Yeah, I realize that I was wrong about ligatures afterwards. The two plusses next to each other looked as if they are a single combined glyph, but they are in fact separate. I think this is the effect you were trying to reach, and it looks very slick.

Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by sayyadirfanali »

layer8 wrote: post #16
sayyadirfanali wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I guess it depends on what you are used to. I draw them like “ʃ” by hand, and find the more squiggly style unnecessarily noisy visually. It makes the brace direction a little less obvious to see at first glance.

surprisingly enough for me, the exact same point was raised by others too. meanwhile, i was totally unaware that many would find it hard to read it as i never ever had any difficulty telling them apart even with the (admittedly baroque) design of the braces. if that is the only feature stopping you from trying this, please make a feature request. maybe i could issue a "disambiguous braces" variant.

Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by sayyadirfanali »

jug wrote: post #20

I personally love Jetbrains Mono; it's been one of a kind for me and my tastes. I like it over Consolas (although this is one is pretty good on Windows), Fira Mono, Inconsolata, Plex Mono. But I can see the effort here and I'm definitely going to give this one a try! I've found that typefaces can change a lot depending on pixel alignment and rendering engines (i.e. ClearType, GDI, FreeType, Quartz... let pixel grid d…

if you try it please feel free to create an issue if you find some rendering bug in your system. i have tested and used it extensively on Linux but not Windows or MacOS as much as i should.

Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by agarttha »

sayyadirfanali wrote: post #19
andrewl-hn wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And some proof assistant languages and frameworks. For a second I was really excited there, but this is another font with “programming ligatures”.

i know the title can be a bit misleading but Myna is primarily ASCII. 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.

What about a J example? https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc
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