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Hey, this is my first font design, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks.
But that's for using it as my daily driver, which doesn't seem to be the actual motivation.
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Yes, they've specifically chosen to avoid ascenders/descenders for clarity and uniform spacing. I don't see how that's not relevant.
> I don't see how that's not relevant. Because it’s apples to oranges. Deciding “my typeface won’t have any lowercase letters” is not the same as “my typeface won’t have descenders”. Technically none of them has descenders, but the former compromises by reducing the amount of characters—which keeps every remaining letterform distinct at the expense of reading fluidity—while the latter compromises by distorting a good…
And we're talking about a monospaced font for your terminal. To me, that's more akin to technical drawing than publishing a book.
In my experience technical drawings often use all caps, which have no ascenders/descenders, and you googling specifically to find a counter example doesn't change that. NASA, for example, https://s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov/ssri-kb/static/resources/NASA%20GS...
My main problem is the low height of the lower case letters. For coding I prefer fonts that actually have them slightly taller than normal (namely JetBrains Mono)
Hey, this is my first font design, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks.