Personally I'm a fan of using bitmap fonts - currently I use Tamzen for my shell/editor: https://github.com/sunaku/tamzen-font
Ooh, very nice. I like bitmap fonts too, but I use Terminus and GNU Unifont (fallback for glyphs not in Terminus) myself.
Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
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Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#52"m" doesn't seems nice http://pcaro.es/i/Hermit_10pt.png
I studied the Lorem Ipsum (thats why its there) and the "es" doesn't look so hot either next to each other. Or was that "se" hard to tell. 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 tha…
The upper-case S looks like it is about to topple forwards.
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#53What's the font of the website's title? That font is ten times better than the showcased font.
It's Roboto.
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#54Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#55What about Cyrillic support? One of the main reasons why PT Mono and DejaVu Sans Mono are my favorites...
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#56> 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…
Font looks fine to me, the characters never seem to run into one another oddly. 1, l, and I; 0 and O; g and q - they all look very different even in small sizes. I might consider switching.
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#57> 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 bridge for pedestrians, by a pedestrian".
While I applaud his effort, this is why wonderful movies aren't musically scored by the director or writer - they may know what they want, but that doesn't give them the ability to create it.
Like medicine "created by a school teacher".
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#58Inconsistent kerning is my biggest complaint when attempting to read code with this font. The t and f bump to the left is jarring.
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#59WTF is wrong with Courier New? Haha, just kidding.
Can you explain to a font ignoramus like me what is wrong with it?
I worked at a printing company a long time ago (although in IT not as a graphics artist), and its a slightly rewarmed serif font thats about 200 years old and designed for newspaper levels of contrast (thats what it was used for two centuries ago).
If you're going to stick with serifs try something like Georgia which is also a warmed over serif font, but somewhat More warmed over than Courier New.
If you want a pleasant holy war right up there with debates about wifi emissions and if religion is true, try suggesting the modern printing and computing world should stick in the sans serif families. There's plenty of journal articles on both sides, etc.
Most debate about font shape is meaningless without discussing color scheme. Grayish blurry-oish text on light yellow medium-large size is what the Slab Serif families were originally invented for two centuries ago ... what a surprise they'll look bad compared to a sans family font (or most anything else) on a pure white backlit background with pitch black letters.
Note that most end users don't really care. The TV/monitor is covered with 1/4 inch of dust and cat fur, they're reading printed matter nearly in the dark and they don't really care what the color temp of their light source is other than it being the cheapest. You're talking about optimizing in the decimal places for the snobs not basic legibility for the masses.
Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
#60It'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...
Thanks, Source Code Pro looks pretty good to me.