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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
#92Thanks, I hate it. My most recent update of IntelliJ turned this font on by default and I had to spend an hour trying to figure out what the font used to be. Mono looked squished to me - the intentional favoring of length over width made the whole editor look like I had an aspect ratio problem on my monitor. I appreciate trying to push the envelope and improve ergonomics, but I wish this would have been opt-in for up…
Interesting. It didn't do that for me. But, I had already specifically set my font. So, maybe it changed the previous default to this new font.
Yeah, changing the font if you had specifically configured it before would have caused some angry reactions I imagine...
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#93I've never understood the obsession and bikeshedding over fonts. I can appreciate that there are people who spend a huge amount of time agonizing over the details and tradeoffs making these things, but... Arial, Times New Roman and Consolas are more than good enough for my purposes.
This could be an indication that you are not the target audience.
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#94I 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…
The use of ligatures seems counter-productive to me. In the code, I do not want to see any editor shenanigans apart from syntax highlighting.
The ligatures are optional. VS Code lets you toggle them on or off, Notepad++ doesn't support them (but there is a plugin for that).
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#95We should take a lesson from the FAQ about license. It is the simplest yet most useful one I have seen! -- May I install JetBrains Mono on my system and use it in any code editor? -> YES. May I make and print a poster with JetBrains Mono? -> YES. May I use JetBrains Mono in my logotype? -> YES. May I use JetBrains Mono on my website? -> YES. May I use JetBrains Mono in my applications? -> YES. May I design my own fon…
IANAL - I am pretty certain you can do most of those things with all fonts regardless of license. Copyrights on fonts is almost non-existent. The only thing copyrightable is the actual "code" used in the font. (maybe delivering their files on a website is an issue?) This is based on research I did years ago when dealing with a copyright legal case where I worked. The summation is that you can't copyright the alphabet…
That's interesting. Because most fonts are protected by a copyright-based license, that they don't seem to have any trouble enforcing.
How extensive was your research?
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#96I've installed it and will try it out for a while. My immediate reaction is that it looks nice. Very nice in VS Code, but oddly it has some funky issues in Visual Studio 2019 (particularly with lowercase 'a') at 100% zoom and font size 11 on my monitor. Not sure if it's an aliasing or TrueType issue.
Sounds interesting. Can you send me the screenshot?
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#97We should take a lesson from the FAQ about license. It is the simplest yet most useful one I have seen! -- May I install JetBrains Mono on my system and use it in any code editor? -> YES. May I make and print a poster with JetBrains Mono? -> YES. May I use JetBrains Mono in my logotype? -> YES. May I use JetBrains Mono on my website? -> YES. May I use JetBrains Mono in my applications? -> YES. May I design my own fon…
IANAL - I am pretty certain you can do most of those things with all fonts regardless of license. Copyrights on fonts is almost non-existent. The only thing copyrightable is the actual "code" used in the font. (maybe delivering their files on a website is an issue?) This is based on research I did years ago when dealing with a copyright legal case where I worked. The summation is that you can't copyright the alphabet…
You can't copyright 0s and 1s, so it's okay to do whatever you want with any binary?
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#98Is there a reason why the stroke narrows where a curve joins a line (the loops of the p and g, the top of the n and the bottom of the a, etc)? The Consolas font uses a consistent stroke weight; the Fira and Source Code Pro thin the line a bit but much less. It's so narrow I feel like it might render strangely at sufficiently low resolutions; it risks breaking the connection. Presumably there's a readability reason, b…
It makes the oval more pronounced at small sizes like 12px.
Makes sense. Thanks.
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#99I 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.
Did you mean 300+ DPI? 3,000 seems higher than I imagine anyone could see or any printer could feasibly print at.
Re: JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
#100Is there a reason why the stroke narrows where a curve joins a line (the loops of the p and g, the top of the n and the bottom of the a, etc)? The Consolas font uses a consistent stroke weight; the Fira and Source Code Pro thin the line a bit but much less. It's so narrow I feel like it might render strangely at sufficiently low resolutions; it risks breaking the connection. Presumably there's a readability reason, b…
It’s a technique to balance the “color” of the glyph. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_color