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Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by oniskanen »

ubercow13 wrote: post #74
chrismorgan wrote: post #16

My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…

This looks very nice, but I can't pay that much for a coding font like this simply because until you load it into the various pieces of software you use it is impossible to know how it will render. Especially on a non-hidpi screen. Chances are it will look significantly different than the PDF once you load it into your terminal. Each of the three terminal emulators I have installed already render fonts very different…

The author offers a pretty good 30 day refund policy if the font doesn't work in your use case: "Triplicate has no demo version, but I do offer a 30-day return option: if the fonts aren’t your style, you can cancel your license for a refund."

As for the customer service experience, the author himself has responded (within the day even) to a couple of emails when I had questions about licensing.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by frereubu »

chrismorgan wrote: post #48
unclekev wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never seen a font's design explained so well. There's so many subliminal things that I had never thought about/considered.

But be careful: not everyone will agree with what they say in such claims. I myself disagree at least moderately with more than half of what they say: Increased letter height for better reading experience: this makes the proportions of the letters a little awkward, and makes ascenders, descenders and capitals less distinct. There’s a reason why the height of x should be quite a bit less than the height of d or M. The…

This comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22054487 - made similar points when the font was released, and I'm in complete agreement. Those decisions feel much more like aesthetic decisions rather than functional / accessible ones.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by Measter »

elcomet wrote: post #31
rvanmil wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks really nice, too bad it doesn't (and never will) support ligatures. I understand the point the author is trying to make about ligatures in the separate blog post, but boy do I love my ligatures when programming.

Can you easily differenciate between == and === with ligatures ? That's one thing that holds me back to trying ligatures.

Of course. A `==` is two characters long, while `===` is three characters long. Also, with the font I use (Fire Code) the `===` ligature has three lines, making it even easier to distinguish.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by bluedino »

1f60c wrote: post #56
chrismorgan wrote: post #16

My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…

There's a free monospace serif-looking font called Go (made for Go, the programming language), designed by Bigelow & Holmes: https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts

I switched to this right after it came out - it's amazing.

Re: Dev Fonts

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Post by thiagotomei »

ubercow13 wrote: post #74
chrismorgan wrote: post #16

My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…

This looks very nice, but I can't pay that much for a coding font like this simply because until you load it into the various pieces of software you use it is impossible to know how it will render. Especially on a non-hidpi screen. Chances are it will look significantly different than the PDF once you load it into your terminal. Each of the three terminal emulators I have installed already render fonts very different…

They give a 30-day free trial, it seems (last item in the 5-reasons list):

"Triplicate has no demo version, but I do offer a 30-day return option: if the fonts aren’t your style, you can cancel your license for a refund."

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