Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders • Hacker News Board

Re: Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

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Post by camtarn » Tue, Oct 07, 2025, 12:22 PM UTC

wildlogic wrote: post #2

Hey, this is my first font design, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks.

No descenders - fine. But I find the lowercase L, and to a lesser extent the lowercase F, very unpleasant looking. Something to do with the overly intrusive and segmented curve.

Re: Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

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Post by Minor49er » Wed, Oct 08, 2025, 2:31 PM UTC

okayishdefaults wrote: post #7

I'm unsure if "no descenders" provides increased clarity. For example, lowercase q is easy to recognize because your eyes are already drawn to it being one of few characters that descend. In the case of this font, you have a small uppercase Q as the lowercase q. This feels like it accomplishes the opposite of this stated benefit.

At a glance, the phrase about it on the site looks like it's saying "Retro aesthetic meets modern claritu"

Re: Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

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Post by jiehong » Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 10:00 AM UTC

myrmidon wrote: post #41

jiehong wrote: post #8

Ancient Latin and Ancient Greek also did just that: lowercase didn’t exist yet. Makes me want to try and write code in uppercase only (or not). I like the theme of the website, though!

Trajan (the font) was basically made for you. Pretty good looking, too.

Nice! I like it more than I was expecting to!