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Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

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Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

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Why author choose to make it look like this? For instance, I prefer Menlo font and find it much better looking than Hermit.

Menlo is my favorite too. :)

Tried others (including this one), but keep coming back to it. I have it set to 14pt in Sublime Text.

Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

#23
The phrase "A font for programmer, by a programmer" is a disservice to the many fine folks at Adobe and elsewhere who manage to not only be type designers, but also programmers. There's a lot of code that goes into making a good font. (Little known fact: Just van Rossum, type designer and programmer, is the brother of the Python BDFL Guido van Rossum.)

All that to say, Adobe's Source Code Pro could also be called a font for programmers, by programmers.

Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

#24
post #13

Tip for the one who created that font, display the font samples in an image or sample text immediately. All I care about is the looks. Did not immediately see where I could see an example so I just moved on to writing this feedback comment, and now I'm done with this post. Next!

You literally have to scroll down to the "Samples" section to see font samples. Then you come in the comments to tell everyone how lazy you are.

Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

#25
I know that a sans-serif font looks all slick and modern, but those serifs in Courier New help your eye identify the character more readily and improve readability. Any monospace font without serifs is automatically a no-go for me when it comes to programming.

Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

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I find the rounded r's and n's a little bit difficult to negotiate, especially at smaller point sizes - while aesthetically pleasing, it makes the font harder to read. When I program, I want all my neurons available to coding. Also, the horizontal bar in f is on a different height than the one on the t. This makes it noisy.

Having said that, I applaud a developer committed enough to make "the perfect editor font" just as much as I applaud those who, via their config scripts and plugins, shape vim or emacs into their own perfect text editors.

Also, he managed to make his font work on WIndows. I never did it with mine (https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font)

Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

#27
post #13

Tip for the one who created that font, display the font samples in an image or sample text immediately. All I care about is the looks. Did not immediately see where I could see an example so I just moved on to writing this feedback comment, and now I'm done with this post. Next!

You literally have to scroll down to the "Samples" section to see font samples. Then you come in the comments to tell everyone how lazy you are.

No, you literally have to scroll down to the "below-the-fold" Samples section, read the terse description, and click in and out of several links to see samples.

Point is: the very first thing anyone going to that page to see that font is going to want to see is that font. Most are going to expect the text of the page in that font, or at least a suitable sample first. As is, the text seen is in some non-standard (AFAIK) font which piques interest as the reader studies its subtleties, wondering how code would look in it ... then after a nontrivial time reading, discovered the links to samples, and is startled to see something completely different (and, IMHO, kinda "squashed").

A newspaper doesn't put the #1 headline on a page referenced below-the-fold.

Re: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You literally have to scroll down to the "Samples" section to see font samples. Then you come in the comments to tell everyone how lazy you are.

No, you literally have to scroll down to the "below-the-fold" Samples section, read the terse description, and click in and out of several links to see samples. Point is: the very first thing anyone going to that page to see that font is going to want to see is that font . Most are going to expect the text of the page in that font, or at least a suitable sample first . As is, the text seen is in some non-standard (AF…

I see this issue a lot when people try to show off their projects. "Check out my new gui/platform/product/application/plugin - If you are interesting in seeing it visually, simply fork my repo, step through the install, and get it running locally."
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