At first glance, I really like it. It's very friendly and relaxing.
Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
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Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#12Is the shading effect that is visible on the glyphs a part of the font or due to some postprocessing done by his font renderer configuration? I think it looks rather bad, but I've always disabled Cleartype et al.
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#13Looks pretty good at lower sized fonts, but I regularly work in 24pt font size and it looks terrible at that size. Too bad.
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#14Seems a bit too wide for my taste, and all the characters seem slightly shifted to the left.
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#15Looks pretty good at lower sized fonts, but I regularly work in 24pt font size and it looks terrible at that size. Too bad.
I usually code around 10pt - more would mean I couldn't fit enough code on the screen... Are you talking about coding at 24pt? I'm interested why you'd do that?
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#16Looks pretty good at lower sized fonts, but I regularly work in 24pt font size and it looks terrible at that size. Too bad.
I usually code around 10pt - more would mean I couldn't fit enough code on the screen... Are you talking about coding at 24pt? I'm interested why you'd do that?
to save your eyes
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#17It's hard for me to imagine ever finding anything better than Ubuntu Mono, but for those who haven't found a love of their font-life, now might be a helpful time to relink to the one slant article I ever saw: http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming...
Seconded. I used to use Menlo, then Incosolata. Ubuntu Mono is by far the absolute best available for programming. Love it!
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#18WTF is wrong with Courier New? Haha, just kidding.
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#19It's hard for me to imagine ever finding anything better than Ubuntu Mono, but for those who haven't found a love of their font-life, now might be a helpful time to relink to the one slant article I ever saw: http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming...
Seconded. I used to use Menlo, then Incosolata. Ubuntu Mono is by far the absolute best available for programming. Love it!
Still prefer inconsolata at the moment, any particular feature of ubuntu mono that you feel puts it far ahead of others?
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#20> a font for programmers, by a programmer
> Every glyph was carefully planned and calculated, according to defined principles and rules. For this reason, Hermit is coherent and regular.
I hate to say this, but a font by a programmer makes as much sense as a database library by a font designer. Good font design is not about calculations or following principled rules; it's about what looks good to the eye, and it takes a tremendous amount of skill and experience.
And to my eye, at least, the font is incredibly difficult to read. It literally looks like a font designed by an engineer for a plotter, not something designed for the human eye or legibility.
Good fonts follow intuitive rhythms, they focus on word shapes (not just letter shapes), natural curves, there's a tremendous amount of subtlety that goes into achieving a proper sense of balance between letterforms, and a lot of things are actually different between letters/curves/etc. so that they look the same to the eye in the end. Even with "utilitarian" fonts like monospace ones.
"Carefully planned and calculated" is a great recipe for building a bridge, but not for building a font, unfortunately.