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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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daneel wrote: post #129
ericgoldberg wrote: post #87

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I think the font is decent, but I won't use it in its current iteration for the following reasons: 1. The lowercase 'm' is muddled and looks bad without anti-aliasing, downright horrible with anti-aliasing. 2. The lowercase 'k' is "too unique" and distracting (personal taste) 3. The lowercase 'e' is too squished and doesn't read well at small point sizes. Overall, this font is not horrible. But with every "programmer…

Agree with your assessment. I searched high and low for a font that serves as a programming font for quite a while. For the longest time I loved Inconsolata and some of it's variations. After a while I got tired of it though. It seemed... sloppy, even though I loved it at first. I think what it lacked, for me at least, was consistency between glyphs. Some where straight and angular, while others curved and it just di…

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

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Post by jakub_g »

daneel wrote: post #129
ericgoldberg wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the font is decent, but I won't use it in its current iteration for the following reasons: 1. The lowercase 'm' is muddled and looks bad without anti-aliasing, downright horrible with anti-aliasing. 2. The lowercase 'k' is "too unique" and distracting (personal taste) 3. The lowercase 'e' is too squished and doesn't read well at small point sizes. Overall, this font is not horrible. But with every "programmer…

Agree with your assessment. I searched high and low for a font that serves as a programming font for quite a while. For the longest time I loved Inconsolata and some of it's variations. After a while I got tired of it though. It seemed... sloppy, even though I loved it at first. I think what it lacked, for me at least, was consistency between glyphs. Some where straight and angular, while others curved and it just di…

I prefer when the font is rather thick than thin, which leads to using sizes like 14, and I've found that Lucida Console and DejaVu Sans Mono work best for me.

The former in Notepad++, the latter is perfect for Eclipse, because Eclipse has a very small spacing between the lines (not configurable) and many other fonts look too condensed due to that.

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

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Post by akurilin »

reidrac wrote: post #32
jamesaguilar wrote: post #2

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 using DejaVu Sans Mono and for me it looks cleaner on 11pt than Ubuntu Mono, but you're right: that article is amazing. I'm surprised how close is DejaVu Sans Mono to Source Code Pro.

Have been using DejaVu Sans Mono for years, it's fantastic and really easy on the eyes.

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

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Post by unepipe »

crazygringo wrote: post #41
alipang wrote: post #36

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Wow, that's a boring attitude. I think it's great this guy is interested in typography and crafting his own fonts, and that the results are quite nice, professional or not, with the right principles or not. 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...

Sorry if I come across as too negative -- I definitely 100% support people trying out new things. [Edit: I think the rest of this comment was too negative, and the guy submitting it doesn't seem to be the author of the font, which I didn't realize, so was perhaps not really applicable. Never mind!]

Providing real, honest feedback is the only useful reply. Kudos to you. If your assessment is negative, then provide negative feedback. If it's positive, positive. No need to over-flower everything, we're all trying to help each other around here.

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

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Post by tholex »

pdenya wrote: post #19
fingerprinter wrote: post #17

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Seconded. I used to use Menlo, then Incosolata. Ubuntu Mono is by far the absolute best available for programming. Love it!

Still prefer inconsolata at the moment, any particular feature of ubuntu mono that you feel puts it far ahead of others?

The italics are amazing - very visible and distinct from the regular font, making it a great tool for validation. E.g. it's very noticeable when a CSS rule is not italic all of a sudden (misspelled). It adds a nice layer on top of colors to distinguish between different states.

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

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Post by rhengles »

jamesaguilar wrote: post #2

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...

The most confortable font for me is Lucida Console.

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

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Post by CatMtKing »

hobb0001 wrote: post #50
jamesaguilar wrote: post #2

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 not sure I'd care to code with this: http://i.imgur.com/Pu4FHi4.png I like to code with about a 9 point font, in order to maximize the amount of code per screen without going too far into the illegible. At that size, the proportions of even a single pixel are large enough to make any anti-aliasing annoying. You lose the sharp contrast that every good font needs to have along its edges. Bitmap fonts are my favorit…

At that size I would disable anti-aliasing in .fonts.conf. It still looks legible, though I wouldn't code in it (much less any font at that size).

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

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Post by swah »

hoov wrote: post #139

I feel the need to include the obligatory link to PragmataPro: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm . I couldn't be happier with this font, and feel like it was worth every penny. It did take some time to adjust to the narrow width of the characters, but it looks totally natural to me now. I also love that the author keeps updating the font regularly. In particular, adding in the Powerline glyphs was great.

I kinda like it when big, but then when I set it small, I change to a bitmap font like 6x13 and it looks better :(

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

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Post by mistercow »

This looks nice, although it might be a little wide for my tastes.

One feature I would love to have (for some reason) in a programming font would be ligatures for multi-character operators. For example, >= would turn into ≥, != into ≠, && into ∧, -> into →, => into ⇒, etc. Obviously all of these would have to have extra spacing to preserve the monospaceness (although I'm not sure really how crucial that is, as long as you don't go into fractional character widths).

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