Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review • Hacker News Board

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by pixeloution » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:41 PM UTC

akamaka wrote: post #9

Does anyone else find most programming fonts to be overly heavyweight? I end up sticking with Courier New because of its light, thin lines, even though it's not a perfect font. Are there any other monospace fonts with light weights?

I'm a big fan of TheSansMono - but its not exactly cheap (I think it was about $120 for the "office" group which I bought).

The characters are pleasing, easy to read, and really I just find them nice. http://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/thesansmono/thesansmono-offi...

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by jakub_g » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:43 PM UTC

akamaka wrote: post #9

Does anyone else find most programming fonts to be overly heavyweight? I end up sticking with Courier New because of its light, thin lines, even though it's not a perfect font. Are there any other monospace fonts with light weights?

(going offtopic) Seems everyone has a different taste. I prefer medium-weight fonts, Courier is way too light for me. Do you work on a Mac BTW? I think there might be some massive rendering difference between Macs and other OSes. You can tell by reading people's blogs. Some authors use super narrow, gray-on-white font, which is generally unreadable on Windows, but I think it may look just fine on macbooks.

Personally, depending on editor (each editor has slightly different rendering, spacing, interline etc.), I'm using DejaVu Sans Mono or Lucida Console.

I dislike Consolas, because it's too blurry for me; so much that I generally immediately delete it from my OS installation, in order for it to not show up when I'm reading coding blogs.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by Paul_S » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:45 PM UTC

A sample would be nice. Look at this one that another commenter here linked to: https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig. Samples! You immediately know what it's about.

I don't think a ttf font can't compete with a handmade raster one like Terminus. Maybe on high dpi displays?

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by maxaf » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:48 PM UTC

One day I'll come across a monospace font that will look & feel as good as the Bloomberg Terminal font.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by anotheryou » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:49 PM UTC

I like this source code pro fork with ligatures (at times more irritating than useful, but sexy):

https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig

edit: switched to Fira Code Light (now that there is a light version)

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by kbenson » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:49 PM UTC

jowiar wrote: post #6

kbenson wrote: post #4

Monospace - This is an universal requirement for source code typography. It's not just an historic artifact from the olden days of terminals, but an useful convention to allow two dimensional structuring and highlighting differences on the character level. Well, since there are people that swear by using variable space fonts for programming, it's not necessarily a universal requirement. I agree it is a very useful co…

I'm waiting for the editor with a layout engine that doesn't assume monospace -- the tooling is a bigger problem than anything else for variable-width fonts.

Slightly related, I've been thinking for a while how an editor that tracked indentation and made each indentation/scope a different background shade and/or slightly smaller font might be interesting to play with. Does anyone know of a system that uses this?

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by sscotth » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:51 PM UTC

akamaka wrote: post #9

Does anyone else find most programming fonts to be overly heavyweight? I end up sticking with Courier New because of its light, thin lines, even though it's not a perfect font. Are there any other monospace fonts with light weights?

Consider https://larsenwork.com/monoid/

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by planckscnst » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:53 PM UTC

Pretty nice. Since the line in the 0 is so shallow, it looks a lot like the θ. I prefer dotted 0 because it's a character that frequently repeated as in "100000" and the slants all together there makes it feel skewed and uncomfortable.

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by terhechte » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:53 PM UTC

kbenson wrote: post #26

jowiar wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm waiting for the editor with a layout engine that doesn't assume monospace -- the tooling is a bigger problem than anything else for variable-width fonts.

Slightly related, I've been thinking for a while how an editor that tracked indentation and made each indentation/scope a different background shade and/or slightly smaller font might be interesting to play with. Does anyone know of a system that uses this?

There's a package for emacs to do that: http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/color-box.png

http://foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/

Re: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Post by jolux » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:55 PM UTC

UncleSam wrote: post #5

nathancahill wrote: post #2

My favorite font for Sublime.

You are referring to the color scheme, not the font. The default font for your Sublime Text is probably either Monospace, Consolas, or Menlo Regular. Yes, this will confuse a lot of people who enjoy the default color scheme of Sublime. This is something completely different.

How do you know?