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Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

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Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

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Post by Someone »

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #53
worewood wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Number One, Pipe Character, lower case L, upper case I, zero and O, Parentheses and Brackets, are so common pain points on coding and terminal fonts. Those should be painfully distinct.

I've never understood why the lowercase l and 1 so often look the same in monospace fonts. It's not like anyone actually writes an l like that — why not just a small bottom right hook? And maybe a top left hook as well? But a whole base is insanity.

> It's not like anyone actually writes an l like that

Counterexample: looking at https://www.nist.gov/srd/nist-special-database-19, the example in the manual has a lowercase L that’s just a vertical line.

Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

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Post by criddell »

worewood wrote: post #29
deathanatos wrote: post #18

So, if you're going to demonstrate the box drawing characters — and in a monospaced font, I would — they should line up? E.g., under "lines", the rows are overlapping; https://i.imgur.com/KnOP2Wu.png ; I would think they're only supposed to just touch, with no gap, no overlap. The boxes, similarly, don't quite line up right. https://i.imgur.com/6pVYh9a.png (Even the 100% box isn't lining up right, although somehow wh…

Number One, Pipe Character, lower case L, upper case I, zero and O, Parentheses and Brackets, are so common pain points on coding and terminal fonts. Those should be painfully distinct.

Is that page showing the complete set of glyphs? I assumed it was a subset because I didn't see the degrees symbol ° and surely they have that.

Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

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Post by Am4TIfIsER0ppos »

unnah wrote: post #68
ecjhdnc2025 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The line spacing is way too tight (this is line-spacing: 1). Obviously that is beneficial for ASCII-art (smaller vertical gaps), but plain text would benefit from at least 1.1 and maybe 1.2. I am not a typographer but the cap height of this font (I think it's the cap height) appears quite large, when perhaps it would be better to have a slightly smaller cap height so the ASCII-art features would work well at line-hei…

The line spacing on the site reminds me of 8-bit computers with 8x8 pixel character cells. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedScript#/media/File:Speeds...

How do people keep linking to an anchor that doesn't exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Speedscript_3.2_for_Commo...

Re: Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

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Post by teddyh »

rbanffy wrote: post #79
rob74 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe that's what they meant by "inspired by typewriters" (on many typewriters there was no 1, you had to use lowercase L)? But I agree that this is not a "feature" you want to have in a font that you use in terminals and/or for programming.

1’s are a luxury. https://www.omnimaga.org/humor-and-jokes/dilbert-'we-could-o...

Better link: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1992-09-08>
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