Nerd Fonts

Post by eric_cc » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 6:21 PM UTC

brisance wrote: post #18

big_chungus wrote: post #7

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I've found source code sans to be an excellent font for LaTeX, and the companion source code pro for code blocks. They are significantly more readable to me and to most people I know, though that may have to do with screens being much higher-resolution than when computer modern was created. Here's my arm-chair hypothesis: the thin connecting lines (don't know the technical font term, though I'm sure one exists) showe…

Personally I prefer IBM Plex Mono and family. https://github.com/IBM/plex

Yes! Such a great font. I recently spent too much time reviewing mono fonts for programming and IBM Plex Mono was my top.

Office Code Pro was my runner up.

They would be more popular with cooler names like Fira and Hack. ;)

Post by crazygringo » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #16

By the way, for those on macOS, Apple recently introduced a huge set of icons/symbols that you can resize like any other font and use anywhere within text (in macOS) or images (iOS). Just copy and paste the symbols like any other emoji, from the SF Symbols app: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... Not only you can use them as is in your final app, these are absolutely great in UI mockups an…

That's crazy, I had no idea.

It seems like it could almost be used as an alternative to Font Awesome... but while they're obviously intended for use in private apps on Apple platforms, there's no indication I can find you're allowed to export/subset them to your own webfont to use on any website.

Not that I assume Apple would search/care in practice, but it would be cool if it were officially sanctioned.

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