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It'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...
It'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...
I'm surprised how close is DejaVu Sans Mono to Source Code Pro.
It'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...
Liberation: http://cl.ly/image/2y2E3m211H1V/Image%202013-09-09%20at%2010...
Ubuntu: http://cl.ly/image/000u0s3E2b2V/Image%202013-09-09%20at%2010...
Great job though. I could definitely put this font to use without feeling a strong urge to change it.
> 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…
Just don't get why it's on the front page before release though. I guess for comments, but add a place where I can sign up to be notified when it's done or something...
Looks 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?
Someone with a "living room TV" sized mere 720px monitor is going to have a completely different perspective on what is too big or too small.
This is aside from the "my classes are 5000 lines long" problem which may or may not exist and may or may not be required by peculiar exceptional business needs anyway (required as opposed to being a style "problem")
And to add yet another orthogonal dimension to the problem, I code full screen using awesome as a WM... I use all of my screen for code except two text line equivalents at the top. I can see how someone who is tab bar'd menu'd windowed down at a tiny little fraction of a monitor might need a smaller font just to see anything. I've seen screens decorated up to the point that the actual content only has a post card sized space to work in, surrounded by massive unproductive clutter. They're going to need a tiny font indeed...
> 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…
Plotter fonts are intended to exactly communicate important technical information. They are designed to be highly legible, irrespective of whether you think they look nice.
It's the same with old-school pixel fonts, which had to exactly communicate easily confusable glyphs, instantly, on a low-bandwidth communications channel (an 8x8 or even 9x16 monochrome character cell is very low bandwidth). So a lot of them looked butt-ugly. But they were easier for a programmer to read than if he had been doing all his code in Helvetica Neue.
That's why I do all my hacking in Glass Tty, Terminus, or good old 7x14. As for this font -- it's nice, but not Terminus nice.
"m" doesn't seems nice http://pcaro.es/i/Hermit_10pt.png
The designer should be proud that the worst problems that can be found by picky people who stare at screens for 12 hours a day are relatively minor and easily fixable. Its a good programming font. Once its an "apt-get" away (and what are its licensing terms? I must have missed that part) I'll probably deploy it and use it.
