I love the spacing-related ligatures. Having said that, I have mostly the same complains @crazygringo has. I'll continue to use my old 3270 font. It's clean and easy to read and, best of all, reminds me of a more civilized age.
JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
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Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#82I always applaud efforts at new typefaces, but unfortunately I feel this is a badly designed typeface that is worse for legibility, not better. Addressing their three main points in turn: > 1. Increased height for a better reading experience A high x-height is good for coding fonts, but this x-height is now too high. To my eye, this is now at the point where lowercase letters are getting harder to distinguish from up…
Serifs are easier to read the more pixels you have to work with. For a printed book at 3,000+ DPI, serifs are fine (though it's still possible to overdo them!). For a high-res monitor, microserifs like the ones Consolas uses can help if your text is not too small. This font was designed for small sizes, where anything except the cleanest lines will simply cause blurriness.
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#83A few weeks ago I was looking for some good font for my terminal and figured out my intellij looks good so why dont i use the font I use in java intellij in terminal so - installed intellij mono on terminal and found it to be great, interesting to see they now opensource it and the coincidence ! :) I really like it both for coding and for terminal.
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#84Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#85Courier 10 Pitch - that's the best font for me. I activated this one and it seems like letters are not "aligned" correctly. I'm sure it's just a feeling but I can;t move away from Courier it seems
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#86nice font and oss, however I still prefer Iosevka SS04
Agreed. After Iosevka, other fonts have felt ... unwieldy.
Link for reference: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
Re: "SS04" d1egoaz is referencing Stylistic Set 04, illustrated here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/be5invis/Iosevka/master/im...
In addition to the original version of the font above, there is a patched version with powerline icons (and much more) built in: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-... which is very handy for emacs/vim modelines.
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
And they also have added details on their own in cases where it just seems to slightly harm readability, like the extreme narrowing in the "n" for example. I find their design choices strange.
The character bugging me is the lowercase i - it looks like a little 1 with a dot on top if you can squint that hard, it's worse not better than DejaVu Sans which I use. (edit: the lowercase a is also rapidly gaining my dislike, it's all smashed up and looks weird)
If you're really using DejaVu Sans, that's a proportional font, so the difference to a "mono" font will be pretty big, especially for the usually narrow letters (i, j, l...) which have to be "padded" in mono fonts to avoid looking unbalanced (and, for coding, to make them easier to distinguish). Of course, if the other letters are as geometrically clean as in this font, the "i" will look a bit out of place. But actually in DejaVu Sans _Mono_ (https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/dejavu-sans-mono), the "i" looks pretty similar.
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#88I always applaud efforts at new typefaces, but unfortunately I feel this is a badly designed typeface that is worse for legibility, not better. Addressing their three main points in turn: > 1. Increased height for a better reading experience A high x-height is good for coding fonts, but this x-height is now too high. To my eye, this is now at the point where lowercase letters are getting harder to distinguish from up…
Over the last 10-15 years or so, I’ve tried so many of these new fonts but always just end up back to DejaVu Sans Mono Bold. Now that my eyes are getting older, it works even better.
On a Mac, Menlo looks nearly identical.
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#89Nice font. I think it’s a bit sad that the only difference between zero and the letter O is the center dot: usually other fonts make the O slightly more round. This one is squarish. The site design is nice but I found it a bit odd that they didn’t include many of the similar character like O, 0, 1, l, I. That is one of the first things I look for and one of the primary reasons I would choose a new font.
They do include both sets (0, o and 1, l, I). That said I absolutely agree that this is far from the best approach to 0 and o.
Sorry I worded my comment poorly. I meant that the code examples at the top don’t seem to prioritize showing those distinctions. If you scroll down they have a separate section but I think it would be nice to showcase all the features on the first samples so that you can see right away how it looks.
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#90I don't know if it is my habit or what, but the font is wider and bolder than what I had before - Victor Mono.