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Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

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Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

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Post by augstein »

nedbat wrote: post #56
lambda wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, font-variation-settings isn't supported by Firefox, Safari, IE, or older versions of Edge, so these settings only work for ~70% of users according to Can I Use. It was a bit frustrating viewing this site on Firefox and not having any indication of why the settings weren't changing anything. Of course, maybe that's because there hasn't been enough demand for it, and now that there is a font that's widel…

The sliders on the site work for me in Firefox, v78.0.2.

Also in Safari iOS 13.6

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

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Post by khaledh »

greenmana wrote: post #45
khaledh wrote: post #25

I know this font is about versatility, but when it comes to a coding font I have yet to find something that beats JetBrains Mono (and I've tried many coding fonts). https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

Have you tried Inconsolata? I like Jetbrains Mono a lot too, but somehow still stick to Inconsolata, even after trying so many others so many times.

Yes. Inconsolata is really good, as is Consolas, and both have been two of my favorite fonts. But JetBrains Mono has clicked in my brain like no other font. It's just so pleasing to read, especially on a 4K monitor.

On the terminal, my favorite font is "Liberation Mono".

Some of the other good fonts are: Cascadia Code/Mono, Droid Sans Mono, Fira Code, Hack, Menlo, Source Code Pro, and Terminus. I just happen to like JetBrains Mono the most.

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

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Post by aasci »

vz8 wrote: post #40

Die-hard fan of Iosevka[0], a narrow monospace font family (regular and term) and nerd-font patched varieties [1]. Just love how they display in emacs gui on a 4k display. [0] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...

hell yeah, same here. when i heard first of iosevka, i didn't like it at all, and it wasn't til a few months and the every-so-often shoutouts later that i understood. it is the best programming font i've ever used.

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

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Post by mortenjorck »

chrisdalke wrote: post #10

The Google Fonts page doesn't really do justice to how dynamic this font is -- https://www.recursive.design/ has a live demo that shows more of the options, maybe the link should be changed to their demo. There are four dimensions and a few other flags that the font can be adjusted by in CSS: natural-width to fixed-width, Linear to "Casual", Font weight, Font slant, and cursive variants. By tweaking any of the variab…

Initially I thought this was an error, because there are other variable fonts on Google Fonts that are displayed with multiple sliders, such as Playfair Display or Work Sans. However, it looks like in each of these cases, the italics are a separate font definition, with only a single variable axis (weight) offered for each. It appears Google Fonts doesn’t currently have a way to deal with multi-axis variable fonts.

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

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Post by estevao2c »

chrisdalke wrote: post #10

The Google Fonts page doesn't really do justice to how dynamic this font is -- https://www.recursive.design/ has a live demo that shows more of the options, maybe the link should be changed to their demo. There are four dimensions and a few other flags that the font can be adjusted by in CSS: natural-width to fixed-width, Linear to "Casual", Font weight, Font slant, and cursive variants. By tweaking any of the variab…

Really cool demo indeed, but it lags a lot on my phone. Still a really great font

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

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Post by jameshart »

The google page seems not to support the '+' glyph, which at first seemed like a bit of a failing in a programming font - but then I remembered how many bugs string concatenation was responsible for and I realized they might be onto something.

Sadly, the version on https://www.recursive.design/ seems to include the symbol.

(spoiler: it's nothing to do with the font - it looks like it's actually a URL encoding glitch with the way the page manages the preview text - it can't round-trip a + symbol correctly)

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

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Post by jameshart »

patrickthebold wrote: post #60
crazygringo wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a coder, probably not. As a designer, absolutely. The exact weight of a font can make a ton of difference in a finished product, and it's frequent to be frustrated that the font isn't available in the weight that would look right for the needs -- you need something in between semibold and bold, or something in between regular and condensed, or something oblique but not that oblique. It's the difference between a d…

It's perfect for those times where you need something monospace, but not too monospace.

Not sure if you're being facetious - it's actually not a crazy idea. For example: displaying 'code' at display font sizes.

If I want to show something that looks like code - like an HTML tag or something - at a heading size on a page or a poster, a proper monospaced coding font is going to look bad. Playing with the MONO slider on https://www.recursive.design/ for a string like '' does a good job of producing something that looks like code but isn't swamped with too much whitespace...

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

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Post by heycam »

lambda wrote: post #54
chrisdalke wrote: post #10

The Google Fonts page doesn't really do justice to how dynamic this font is -- https://www.recursive.design/ has a live demo that shows more of the options, maybe the link should be changed to their demo. There are four dimensions and a few other flags that the font can be adjusted by in CSS: natural-width to fixed-width, Linear to "Casual", Font weight, Font slant, and cursive variants. By tweaking any of the variab…

Unfortunately, font-variation-settings isn't supported by Firefox, Safari, IE, or older versions of Edge, so these settings only work for ~70% of users according to Can I Use. It was a bit frustrating viewing this site on Firefox and not having any indication of why the settings weren't changing anything. Of course, maybe that's because there hasn't been enough demand for it, and now that there is a font that's widel…

Support for font-variation-settings has been on by default since Firefox 62, which was released almost two years ago. Are you using a Firefox older than that?

Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

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Post by chrysoprace »

jerrygoyal wrote: post #34
khaledh wrote: post #25

I know this font is about versatility, but when it comes to a coding font I have yet to find something that beats JetBrains Mono (and I've tried many coding fonts). https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

On windows, I tried dozens of trending fonts like fira code, new ms font, jetbrains etc but nothing looks more natural to read than Consolas (and also Roboto mono)

I think Cascadia Code[0] is pretty close but I wish Microsoft would re-release Consolas with ligatures.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code

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