I've been using iosevka (regular and thin) anywhere I have to read a whole lot of content, which in my case is within atom editor, terminal (vim), and irc client (quassel). Iosevka is a feel-good font. The regular and thin styles are very nice. ^_^
Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
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Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#82I've been using Monoid for a long while now and am surprised not many people have heard of it or are using it. Monoid is very similar to Iosevka . Similarly you need time to get used to it, but when you do don't want to go back.
I have not used Iosevka, has anyone used both Iosevka and Monoid and can compare them?
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#83I switched to this and it does look nice: https://snag.gy/rFSpig.jpg
I was thinking it was an odd choice to post a jpeg image of a font screenshot, but that site seems to serve PNG images with a .jpg extension... odd!
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you dislike ligatures in your coding font? Just curious.
Not the commenter you're asking to, but ligatures, to me, are a print thing. They are not nice on the computer screen. I'm kind-of fine with fi and ffi with variable-width fonts, but the rest is geekery (which is fine in itself, but not practical). With print, you have to think about kerning and the flow of the ink, and the DPI of the printer, and many other variables, and some ligatures help with that (fi). Then the…
Coding font ligatures mostly are meant for symbols though. Examples (linked for the example images there):
- The submitted font - scroll down to "Ligation sets" https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ (note that they only show symbols)
- https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
- https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig
I think people using a programming language with a more math-like notation probably benefit much more than those using "normal" languages.
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#85I am currently using Source Code Pro. I find it very nice to use as my daily driver.
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you dislike ligatures in your coding font? Just curious.
Not the commenter you're asking to, but ligatures, to me, are a print thing. They are not nice on the computer screen. I'm kind-of fine with fi and ffi with variable-width fonts, but the rest is geekery (which is fine in itself, but not practical). With print, you have to think about kerning and the flow of the ink, and the DPI of the printer, and many other variables, and some ligatures help with that (fi). Then the…
Monospaced fonts simply mean that the horizontal width is constant. While this also means there aren't any kerning pairs, it is a different concept. Simply disabling kerning does not mean a font is monospaced.
Kerning is a table of pairs that allows them to have more aggressive advance values. For example, with a sequential 'V' and 'A', the 'A' could be moved closer to the 'V'. But kerning doesn't have anything to do with the fact that in a variable width font that 'I' is narrower than 'X'.
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#87Thank you for posting this! I purchased the Essential version of PragmataPro™[1] because I love a narrower monospaced font for terminal windows and editors... allowing for a better use of horizontal screen real estate. Having something that is this configurable—including the leading—is fantastic! I will definitely give it a try. One thing that may make me stick with PragmataPro is the fact that Fabrizio has hand-opti…
Yes, it does.
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#88My favorite for coding for a couple years now: http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love how you can choose your flavor by web app and just download resulting font. No need for building it by yourself.
You're right, that's nice. However, Input is proprietary and requires agreeing to a _rather restrictive_ licence to download and use... http://input.fontbureau.com/license/
I don't find this license very restrictive. You can use it for personal use as much as you want.
You can't put it on websites or use it in software you give out.
Seems fair to me.
Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right, that's nice. However, Input is proprietary and requires agreeing to a _rather restrictive_ licence to download and use... http://input.fontbureau.com/license/
I don't find this license very restrictive. You can use it for personal use as much as you want. You can't put it on websites or use it in software you give out. Seems fair to me.
Agree.