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Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by veidr »

kqr wrote: post #32
veidr wrote: post #16

Looks very readable, but for me personally, ligatures for things like ->, =>, = and those weird JavaScriptisms like == vs === has really become table stakes for me. Didn't care about that at all until about 2020, but can't imagine using a coding font without those features today.

Do you really need font support for that, though? I've found editor support for it much cleaner -- it knows when it's best to expand then and when they should be ligatured.

My understanding is that both font and editor must support it; the editor must know when/how to render the ligatures, but the font must define what the glyphs look like, or else they won’t look any different that the regular sequence of characters.

I’m far from an expert, though; I’ve just gotten so used to having ligatures over the past few years that I now find it uncomfortable not to have them.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by veidr »

sitkack wrote: post #37
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m super basic regarding fonts and just look for I l 1. If you don’t absolutely nail those in fixed width then get lost. Edit: I just noticed they doubled those up at the end. Nice touch

Yeah, nice touch. It shows they care. To the parent, not snark, but the font is open source. You can add those ligatures!

Yep, that’s even more important than ligatures. :)

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by TylerE »

budrickfox wrote: post #22
VitoVan wrote: post #20

From the README: > ... legally blind developers provided feedback at each stage of design. This makes me curious.

“Legally blind” doesn’t mean absolutely zero vision, as I understand it - many people can still benefit from more legible type.

Yes, the vast majority of blind people are not the stereotypical “whole world is black”. Even among the profoundly blind there is often some vague perception of light vs dark.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by doodlesdev »

reassembled wrote: post #4

IBM released a typeface a couple of years ago with much marketing fan fare: https://www.ibm.com/plex/ https://github.com/IBM/plex On another note, are there any notable examples of AI-generated mono-spaced programmer fonts?

I think I just found my new favorite font. I'm absolutely addicted to grotesque sans-serif, I used to use Roboto everywhere, but now I'm currently using Cantarell (GNOME's default font, a humanist typeface) as my desktop font and as an overwrite font for every single website I open, but I might just start using Plex Sans and Plex Mono now. Thank god it's OFL.

I still find it fascinating that there are so many different typefaces with such subtle differences in them, but since I'm looking at characters in the screen the entire day, these characters better be beautiful and pleasing.

I'm not gonna lie, every time I swap fonts on my desktop I keep remembering that one scene from American Psycho [0]. Maybe I should touch some grass.

[0]: https://youtu.be/cISYzA36-ZY

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by berkle4455 »

veidr wrote: post #16

Looks very readable, but for me personally, ligatures for things like ->, =>, = and those weird JavaScriptisms like == vs === has really become table stakes for me. Didn't care about that at all until about 2020, but can't imagine using a coding font without those features today.

Ligatures? Might as well use Comic Sans.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by sitkack »

fwlr wrote: post #11

Very glad to see more “low x height” monospace fonts (x height is the height of lowercase letters relative to capital letters; I haven’t checked to be sure but my eyes tell me this is on the lower side). Source Code Pro has been my go-to for a very long time, and it has always bothered me that Apple opted for higher x-heights in their San Francisco re-design of Helvetica (which already has a high x height to begin wi…

What do you think of https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by bruce511 »

One 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 for all at the table.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by doodlesdev »

djvu97 wrote: post #14

is anyone else thinking Jetbrains Mono is the best thing ever made for terminal and vim font??

I avoid it like the plague because of ligatures, although I must admit other than that I enjoyed in my (admittedly short) experience with JetBrains IDEs. Have never tested them elsewhere.

Re: Intel One Mono Typeface

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Post by chrsjxn »

userbinator wrote: post #13

All the other letters are nothing out of the ordinary, but the { } look really odd.

The semicolon and all the brackets look to have a lot more emphasis than they do in many common monospace fonts, which makes a lot of sense if you're designing your font for developers. Same with the 1Il distinction they show off in their graphic, or O0.

It's unusual, but I'd bet it feels nice to work with after getting used to it.

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