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Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

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Re: Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

#11

The qu i ck brown f ox jumps over the lazy do 9

Letter spacing is not great for that 'i' indeed. Monospace fonts use a very wide serif at the bottom, or an extended arm to make the i appear equally-spaced, which this typeface seems to have ignored.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll give this a try.

Re: Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

#12

Hey, this is my first font design, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks.

It's very nice, but why? The lack of descenders makes it slightly harder to read. More of the letters look the same.

It's perfect for my use case, which is making individual square letters to print. PITA to ensure that the square are uniform when the letters are not uniform in size.

Re: Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

#17

The squished descenders are surprisingly not horrible. (They are horrible in some actual 80s fonts from 8-bit devices.) But I don't like the giant intrusive 'l' that looks like a ladle, it's got too much character.

zx spectrum is very offended by your remarks, and would like to have a word with you :-) I can see that g with my eyes closed.

Re: Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

#20

Hey, this is my first font design, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks.

Great job! I've tried many times to design a font and failed.

That said, here's some: I'd love to see multiple weights. Not just bold, the new fonts can have multiple weights. Italic could help also but with the letters staying in the box. Also, the letters are too much to the left to my liking. Large amount of space between letters makes it even more visible.

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