Couldn't tell from the repo: does it have power line glyphs? I suppose they could easily be patched in if not
Intel One Mono Typeface
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Re: Intel One Mono Typeface
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To this day I haven't seen a monospaced font superior to Courier New. And before anyone asks: No, this isn't a meme. Yes, I'm 300% serious.
The only issue I have is with the 'weight' of Courier New. It's too thin for me to be able to read. If it were just a hair thicker and had proper ligatures, I might use it.
That's because it was digitized wrong, from the metal rather than from the effect of the metal smacking a ribbon onto paper.
Re: Intel One Mono Typeface
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
To this day I haven't seen a monospaced font superior to Courier New. And before anyone asks: No, this isn't a meme. Yes, I'm 300% serious.
To this day, there isn't a font that I hate more than I hate Courier New. Don't know why, it is of course not logical, but it is.
Probably not the font itself but the environment around it when you see it?
You usually sees it as the default monospace typeface in an old windows environment, probably with no anti-aliasing and with low resolution screen. That combination is an eyesore.
Courier New in an modern environment, with modern text rendering and anti-aliasing on high res screen is actually not bad at all.
Re: Intel One Mono Typeface
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That looks so wrong. Why would they do this?
I suspect is just a bug: the ligature tables were copied from the regular variant, and perhaps no one noticed for some reason. Maybe the assumption was that the renderer would turn of ligature processing in monospace mode at the time, and the reference renderer did that?
I can't find any examples now, but I'm positive that there have been "coding" fonts which do this that have hit the front page of HN. Highlighted as a feature in the screenshots, even.
Another example of form over function, to the utter detriment of function, IMHO.
Re: Intel One Mono Typeface
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
To this day I haven't seen a monospaced font superior to Courier New. And before anyone asks: No, this isn't a meme. Yes, I'm 300% serious.
> To this day I haven't seen a monospaced font superior to Courier New. Liberation Mono. Metrics that match Courier New, very legible at all font sizes, easy on the eyes and consistent, wide character support, free, none of that ligatures stuff (personal preference). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts Some might also like Cousine as an alternative, a version called FiraCousine also supports ligatures fo…
Liberation Mono is not bad. Sadly, Liberation Sans is a no-go because it lacks crossbars on the capital "i". Such an annoying failing of so many sans fonts.
Re: Intel One Mono Typeface
#186I don't love the aggressive curly braces. Does anyone else? I feel like the whole typeface here is consistently bland, and then there's the angry curly braces that pop out of nowhere.
Fully agreed, these irritating curly braces are the reason to reject it.
I was prepared to just tolerate them, but I do find it easier to identify them at a glance, and distinguish between [ and (. Just switched my IDE to this font.
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#187I don't love the aggressive curly braces. Does anyone else? I feel like the whole typeface here is consistently bland, and then there's the angry curly braces that pop out of nowhere.
> I don't love the aggressive curly braces. Does anyone else?
I really dislike the curly braces in this font. Fonts with this stye of curly braces are a dealbreaker for me.
Re: Intel One Mono Typeface
#188One thing I really appreciate about fonts is the low-stakes nature of trying them out. Installing is easy, and doesn't take much space, you set your editor and try it out. There's no lock-in, switching back takes zero effort. So I'm always keen to give them a go, some stick, some don't. For what it's worth I'm in the no-ligature group. I want to see => not some ligature. But again that's subjective and there's room f…
Thank deity that we don't have package managers for fonts.
> Thank deity that we don't have package managers for fonts.
I use the Homebrew package manager on macOS to install fonts. Probably works the same way when running Homebrew on Linux.
How I install one of my favorite fonts:
brew install font-meslo-lg-nerd-fontRe: Intel One Mono Typeface
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
> To this day I haven't seen a monospaced font superior to Courier New. Liberation Mono. Metrics that match Courier New, very legible at all font sizes, easy on the eyes and consistent, wide character support, free, none of that ligatures stuff (personal preference). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts Some might also like Cousine as an alternative, a version called FiraCousine also supports ligatures fo…
Liberation Mono is not bad. Sadly, Liberation Sans is a no-go because it lacks crossbars on the capital "i". Such an annoying failing of so many sans fonts.
> Such an annoying failing of so many sans fonts.
Here's an example of some fonts, for anyone curious: https://i.imgur.com/jYA6jt3.png
Some fonts like Arial are bad at this, capital "I" and lowercase "L" look the same. Calibri and Liberation sans both have slight differences, but not enough to not be confusing. Some fonts like Open Sans have crossbars on capital "I", which solves this problem. But that's not the only solution, fonts like PT Sans have a different looking lowercase "L" which is different enough not to cause confusion. Then again, technically you could also run into issues with the vertical line symbol "|".
Also, PT Mono is a nice font, but has issues with a small full stop symbol at smaller sizes (not as pronounced as Liberation Mono, annoying): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PT_Fonts
Re: Intel One Mono Typeface
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you end each sentence with exclamations? Your past comments suggest you do this often. It's hard to read, as the reader wonders if it's a joke or sarcasm they haven't figured out, detracting from simply reading your comment.
they even list a source, having a child with vision issues. your complaint may feel well-intentioned, but taken at face value you have told a parent that their enthusiasm over things like companies caring about groups of people that often get lost, that their child falls into, that has led to their child struggling, after all that, that their way of communicating, of expressing themselves, is so burdensome that it dr…
My intention was in supporting them and their voice reach the audience with less hinderance. I didn't mention "enthusiasm", only pointing out the frequent and unusual use of punctuation can misread or be distracting. Hopefully it's of use to them.