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Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by mholt »

jablanyu wrote: post #27

Genuine question: is everyone coding on such high resolution displays and/or with font sizes so big nowadays? For me, the example screenshots are useless to see how the font would actually look like in my editor.

I definitely increase my font size, so I'm not straining my eyes. Any monitor with a lower than about 120 PPI causes me strain, unless I really boost the size. For example I read HN at anywhere from 150-200%.

Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by trenchpilgrim »

jablanyu wrote: post #27

Genuine question: is everyone coding on such high resolution displays and/or with font sizes so big nowadays? For me, the example screenshots are useless to see how the font would actually look like in my editor.

Yes, the bigger fonts are easier to read.

Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by imiric »

I like it, it's very clean. Nice work!

I like that it's relatively compact horizontally. If I had to nitpick, the curly braces look a bit too "wavy" for my taste, which doesn't quite match the hard angles on some other glyphs.

My favorite monospace font for the past 10+ years has been Iosevka Term ss08. I've tried many others over the years, and Iosevka is just perfect IMO.

Out of curiosity: what are the tools and the process to create a font today? It would be interesting to read a bit about that.

Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by gorgoiler »

Very nice and condensed. The same reason I switched to Iosevka (Joseph), recently:

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

The fun thing with Iosevka is that one stands a reasonable chance of reading the source code (as opposed to just random numbers in SplineSets etc.)

Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by kstrauser »

This is very pretty, but...

The kerning in the "Lorem" at the top drives me batty. It nearly looks like 2 words to my eye. I know that's super subjective and it probably doesn't bother anyone else at all. It's kind of a deal breaker for me, though.

Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by robinhood »

jablanyu wrote: post #27

Genuine question: is everyone coding on such high resolution displays and/or with font sizes so big nowadays? For me, the example screenshots are useless to see how the font would actually look like in my editor.

Hard to talk about "everyone" since I'm not aware of any large polls around this point. On a personal note, yes, considering that I'm 44, I tend to always increase font size everywhere: the code editor, the terminal, the browser, the OS itself and mobile phone.

It's unavoidable for me. I was making fun of those people with huge font sizes on phones 10 years ago. I'm almost one of them now.

Re: Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

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Post by sayyadirfanali »

kstrauser wrote: post #37

This is very pretty, but... The kerning in the "Lorem" at the top drives me batty. It nearly looks like 2 words to my eye . I know that's super subjective and it probably doesn't bother anyone else at all. It's kind of a deal breaker for me, though.

i use this font basically everywhere and have become kinda blind to the defects. for me it looked best when glyphs are mostly centered (which makes them "genuinely monospace" if you catch my drift).

but you raise a valid point. it is not entirely subjective. some obviously grotesque (no pun) kerning would need to be changed in the next version. if you can point out some obvious ones i would urge you to create an issue.

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