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Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release
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Re: Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release
#82I absolutely love Berkeley Mono and the author’s efforts into perfecting the font. It has been my favorite font since it was first released.
Some fonts don’t go beyond the initial release for fixing minor issues, so I appreciate these updates.
While I understand that Ligatures are controversial, it’s still good to add the option for people who likes it.
In another note, I really enjoy the simplicity in the website design.
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#83Go to the "Ligatures Explorer" and choose Clojure ;)
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#84I paid for this font. I can't believe it, but I just kept coming back to the webpage every week thinking "Aww dang its nice, but no way would I ever pay $75 for a font for personal use". But I kept coming back. Again and again, just looking through their page. I tried the trial. I eventually caved. A weird moment for me, but I bloody love this font and I frequently notice how nice it is in all my IDEs. I sound like a…
The website is fantastic. Font looks great and samples are an eye candy, so tried it just now. Windows, 1920 x 1200 @ 96 dpi, Visual Studio, light-on-dark theme. I like 'em small to fit more on the screen and at 8px this font looks janky. It is blurry with uneven thickness and requires an eye strain to read. It doesn't seem to be hinted at all even though it is a TTF version. Here's Berkley Mono on the left and Mensc…
IDK; it might as well be Windows.
I'm used to use DejaVu Sans Mono. Under X (Linux) it works beautifully and stays relatively readable down to 7pt; I usually set it to 11pt.
Under Windows 10, on the same screen with same DPI, I could not make it look reasonably in native programs like Notepad++; it stays blurry up until ridiculously large sizes. Emacs, which of course brings its own rendering to Windows, is able to render it somehow more crisply.
Conversely, Consolas looks wonderful under Windows, crisp and sharp. I could not make it render equally well under Linux.
And macOS is another land; it refuses to make fonts crisp if matching the pixel grid would change their shape even slightly. The only recourse is retina displays.
YMMV.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
The website is fantastic. Font looks great and samples are an eye candy, so tried it just now. Windows, 1920 x 1200 @ 96 dpi, Visual Studio, light-on-dark theme. I like 'em small to fit more on the screen and at 8px this font looks janky. It is blurry with uneven thickness and requires an eye strain to read. It doesn't seem to be hinted at all even though it is a TTF version. Here's Berkley Mono on the left and Mensc…
Mensch presumably is this font: https://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html I’ll have to try it. I’m still using Lucida Console because most newer fonts lack hinting for smaller sizes.
Yes, that's the one. It's overall fantastic.
As far as 8px fonts go, there's also Dina, which is very similar, but with a pixelated look even though it's a TTF.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s only in the last decade that font designers stoped to care about low-dpi screens. Same for UI designers. It all started when those designers started to work on Retina screens. It would be ok if the vast majority of screens were high dpi. But they are not. It’s not a question of being broke or not. Affordable high-dpi screens are pretty much a recent thing. It keeps being rare (and expensive) on every laptop that…
> It’s only in the last decade that font designers stoped to care about low-dpi screens. Same for UI designers. It all started when those designers started to work on Retina screens. A good designer would think about how his creation will be used in the Real World IMHO.
^ this shouldn't be in gray.
Re: Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release
#87I paid for this font. I can't believe it, but I just kept coming back to the webpage every week thinking "Aww dang its nice, but no way would I ever pay $75 for a font for personal use". But I kept coming back. Again and again, just looking through their page. I tried the trial. I eventually caved. A weird moment for me, but I bloody love this font and I frequently notice how nice it is in all my IDEs. I sound like a…
I had the same journey with Codelia[1]. Berkeley looks great, though! [1] https://tosche.net/fonts/codelia
oh man, thats beautiful. but hefty price tag!
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#88I think it looks great, and decided to check out how my favourite font (Fira Code) stacks up [0].
Hate to poop on others hard work, but i think Fira Code looks much better. The missing one i found might be critical for Clojurists, could be patched in FC.
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#89It is sometimes said, that nostalgia is not the yearning for the past as it actually was, but for the past as it exists in our rosiest memories. I seem to have taken this one step further — I yearn for a world which I never experienced, and which possibly never existed except in my fantasy at the time. I was born in 1971. By the time I was aware of computers, but still a child, in the late 1970’s to the mid 1980’s, my image of computers — real computers, the sort that flew you to the moon or ran large companies or research labs, not the Z80 basic-in-ROM “home computer” we actually had at home — was formed by whatever reading matter was around, most of it outdated even at the time. This was Apollo-era spaceflight. It was 9-track open-reel tape stations and chain printers. It was Frutiger and Univers.
Obviously, many of the things my parents used were from the 1960’s or 1970’s, so that is what serious stuff for grown-ups looked like. (This condition could be hereditary. I have no children, but if I had, they would be exposed to things like my DSLR and stereo amp, both older than they would have been.)
I think this is what makes me like the aesthetics of this typeface so much. It is not what computers used to look like, what they look like today, or what they will look like tomorrow. It is what they were supposed to look like!
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
None with the parameters I mentioned. To my knowledge currently only one JOLED panel (as used in the LG 27EP950) matches those specs, but it has poor availability, as they have yield issues (there are rumors JOLED may close shop), and it’s rather expensive. On the VA side, Samsung recently announced the M80C, which could fit the bill. LG announced the 27UQ850 with “IPS Black” technology, which I may take a look at, b…
This one fits the bill, on sale in China allready maybe you can order from there. Elsewhere from 4Q23. https://www.notebookcheck.net/ViewSonic-VX2722-4K-OLED-27-in...
There are 27" 4K displays availlable allready from LG, starting at 1,999$