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Re: Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface

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Post by LeoNatan25 »

electroly wrote: post #58
danpalmer wrote: post #9

The typeface looks nice, but I first opened the site on mobile and it told me to use keys to navigate, effectively locking me out from browsing it. I then opened it on desktop, tried to scroll and realised that it uses WASD keys which are all over my keyboard. The scroll wheel on my mouse/trackpad/etc don't work. As a user of a non-QWERTY layout this sucks. Then I tried to use the text zoom and while it documents thi…

It's an overly stylized affectation for a font website but everything here is mouse-accessible; I didn't use my keyboard at all. My scroll wheel works and you can click on the key buttons on the bottom and the categories on the top.

Scrolling is completely broken for both trackpads and mice scroll wheel, so no, not everything is accessible. At least not in a non-buggy way. Scrolling on a web page should never be buggy.

Re: Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface

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Post by LeoNatan25 »

miohtama wrote: post #30
danpalmer wrote: post #9

The typeface looks nice, but I first opened the site on mobile and it told me to use keys to navigate, effectively locking me out from browsing it. I then opened it on desktop, tried to scroll and realised that it uses WASD keys which are all over my keyboard. The scroll wheel on my mouse/trackpad/etc don't work. As a user of a non-QWERTY layout this sucks. Then I tried to use the text zoom and while it documents thi…

Accessibility may matter, but terminal hipsterism is likely to matter more for the target audience, and thus reflect the values of the project better.

"terminal hipsterism"

That's a very apt way to put it, haha. Might steal that for future references, thanks!

Re: Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface

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Post by AceyMan »

michaelmior wrote: post #73

I tried it out, but quickly switched back to my favorite Hack[0]. It may be just that I'm used to it, but I find it easier to read. [0] https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

Jetbrains Mono has been my goto since release. The ligatures are nice if you like those in your code views. (Hard to believe no one has mentioned this font yet.)

Re: Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface

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Post by yboris »

danpalmer wrote: post #9

The typeface looks nice, but I first opened the site on mobile and it told me to use keys to navigate, effectively locking me out from browsing it. I then opened it on desktop, tried to scroll and realised that it uses WASD keys which are all over my keyboard. The scroll wheel on my mouse/trackpad/etc don't work. As a user of a non-QWERTY layout this sucks. Then I tried to use the text zoom and while it documents thi…

Minor frustration -- I'm reading the directions to install, but when I focus out (to update my VSCode settings as instructed), the screen goes into low contrast, making it harder to read the directions.

Re: Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface

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Post by OkayPhysicist »

pavlov wrote: post #15
lifthrasiir wrote: post #3

> The most effective font is the one you don’t notice. No super high x-height, no geometric construction, no eye-catching design and no confusing ligatures. Designed to be neutral and anonymous, Commit Mono is quietly useful. Thank you for this memorandum, and especially for "no confusing ligatures".

It’s true, some monospace fonts have absurd ligatures enabled by default. The craziest thing I’ve seen was a single-width “fi” ligature. The only point of this ligature in proportional fonts is to prevent the dot on the ‘i’ from overlapping with the hook of the ‘f’, and that by definition can’t happen in monospace! But you madmen decided to create a single “fi” glyph, like it was a letter of its own. Imagine that on…

IMO, even as someone who really likes ligatures in general, in a monospace font the invariant of 1 character text - 1 character displayed - 1 character width must be upheld. I'm all for => getting turned into a 2 character wide arrow, or === and == getting little dots above them and whatever. But never, under any circumstances, should my font change character alignment.

Personally I've been using a lot of Cascadia Code lately. Big fan.

Re: Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface

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Post by markeibes »

ziml77 wrote: post #62
danpalmer wrote: post #9

The typeface looks nice, but I first opened the site on mobile and it told me to use keys to navigate, effectively locking me out from browsing it. I then opened it on desktop, tried to scroll and realised that it uses WASD keys which are all over my keyboard. The scroll wheel on my mouse/trackpad/etc don't work. As a user of a non-QWERTY layout this sucks. Then I tried to use the text zoom and while it documents thi…

Same feelings about it here. The font actually looks pretty nice, but I won't be using it because that website is utter garbage. I take no issue with the creator taking the time to code up a cute terminal-like interface, but there absolutely needs to be a link to a basic version of the site (and it needs to not require me to press a key to navigate to that link).

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Re: Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface

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Post by tsuujin »

AceyMan wrote: post #83
michaelmior wrote: post #73

I tried it out, but quickly switched back to my favorite Hack[0]. It may be just that I'm used to it, but I find it easier to read. [0] https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

Jetbrains Mono has been my goto since release. The ligatures are nice if you like those in your code views. (Hard to believe no one has mentioned this font yet.)

I used Jetbrains Mono right up until I found Intel Mono (https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono) and I’ve been using it since.
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