Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

I paid for this font. I can't believe it, but I just kept coming back to the webpage every week thinking "Aww dang its nice, but no way would I ever pay $75 for a font for personal use".

But I kept coming back. Again and again, just looking through their page. I tried the trial. I eventually caved. A weird moment for me, but I bloody love this font and I frequently notice how nice it is in all my IDEs.

I sound like a shill, sorry.

Re: Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

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Post by vinkelhake » Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 9:56 PM UTC

AJRF wrote: post #4

I paid for this font. I can't believe it, but I just kept coming back to the webpage every week thinking "Aww dang its nice, but no way would I ever pay $75 for a font for personal use". But I kept coming back. Again and again, just looking through their page. I tried the trial. I eventually caved. A weird moment for me, but I bloody love this font and I frequently notice how nice it is in all my IDEs. I sound like a…

I had a very similar experience with Pragmata Pro. I kept coming back to the page and eventually just forked out the money for it. I adore that font and I've been using it for going on 8 years.

This is not a this font vs. that font comment - it's about spending money on a font and how a lot of people find that a weird thing. For me, I came to the realization that it's a thing I literally spend hours every day looking at, so if spending a small amount of cash would improve that experience then why would I not do it?

Re: Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

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Post by nice_byte » Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 10:05 PM UTC

this looks sick, I might actually give in and swap the IBM VGA bitmap font I use everywhere for this...

Re: Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

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Post by anamexis » Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 10:15 PM UTC

AJRF wrote: post #4

I paid for this font. I can't believe it, but I just kept coming back to the webpage every week thinking "Aww dang its nice, but no way would I ever pay $75 for a font for personal use". But I kept coming back. Again and again, just looking through their page. I tried the trial. I eventually caved. A weird moment for me, but I bloody love this font and I frequently notice how nice it is in all my IDEs. I sound like a…

I had the same journey with Codelia[1]. Berkeley looks great, though!

[1] https://tosche.net/fonts/codelia

Re: Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

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Post by huhtenberg » Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 10:36 PM UTC

AJRF wrote: post #4

I paid for this font. I can't believe it, but I just kept coming back to the webpage every week thinking "Aww dang its nice, but no way would I ever pay $75 for a font for personal use". But I kept coming back. Again and again, just looking through their page. I tried the trial. I eventually caved. A weird moment for me, but I bloody love this font and I frequently notice how nice it is in all my IDEs. I sound like a…

The website is fantastic. Font looks great and samples are an eye candy, so tried it just now.

Windows, 1920 x 1200 @ 96 dpi, Visual Studio, light-on-dark theme. I like 'em small to fit more on the screen and at 8px this font looks janky. It is blurry with uneven thickness and requires an eye strain to read. It doesn't seem to be hinted at all even though it is a TTF version.

Here's Berkley Mono on the left and Mensch on the right - https://i.imgur.com/CM27hVV.png

At 9px characters somehow retain their width but just get taller.

At 10px it starts looking better, but glyphs still look kinda feeble and aren't terribly pleasant to look at.

Just 2c. The character design is very nice still.

Re: Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

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Post by swah » Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 11:00 PM UTC

vinkelhake wrote: post #5

AJRF wrote: post #4

I paid for this font. I can't believe it, but I just kept coming back to the webpage every week thinking "Aww dang its nice, but no way would I ever pay $75 for a font for personal use". But I kept coming back. Again and again, just looking through their page. I tried the trial. I eventually caved. A weird moment for me, but I bloody love this font and I frequently notice how nice it is in all my IDEs. I sound like a…

I had a very similar experience with Pragmata Pro. I kept coming back to the page and eventually just forked out the money for it. I adore that font and I've been using it for going on 8 years. This is not a this font vs. that font comment - it's about spending money on a font and how a lot of people find that a weird thing. For me, I came to the realization that it's a thing I literally spend hours every day looking…

Me too - then Iosevka came along...

Re: Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

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Post by monkey_monkey » Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 11:07 PM UTC

AJRF wrote: post #4

I paid for this font. I can't believe it, but I just kept coming back to the webpage every week thinking "Aww dang its nice, but no way would I ever pay $75 for a font for personal use". But I kept coming back. Again and again, just looking through their page. I tried the trial. I eventually caved. A weird moment for me, but I bloody love this font and I frequently notice how nice it is in all my IDEs. I sound like a…

I did the same, and have zero regrets. I've tried so many fonts over the last 15 years, but this one just works for me.