The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.
People actually change fonts in their IDE? I’ve always used whatever the default is and never even thought about it.
Try Fira Code font
I’m a big fan of Fira Code! I haven’t found any others I like more.
I actually have. I didn’t install it in an IDE, though. This font comes with popOS
some people even change default system fonts used in the deskop environment (menu’s, filemanager etc) 😎😁
Damn, I need to get out more.
Actually you have to stay in more to get into this sort of thing.
I’ve always preferred IBM’s Plex Mono, specifically the Nerd Fonts version.
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Oh man fonts for coding are such a huge thing. There are people making their own forks of so they have certain glyphs, or a line through the zero (or vice versa) or little changes to other specific chars.
Calling it now, Radon will become the new Comic Sans.
Yeah, I looked at the first couple of fonts, then read all that stuff about readability this, state of the art that, expressive palettes la-di-da and I thought “ok maybe they have an idea here”.
Then I looked at the rest of the examples and ran into that… thing. Like, the fucker’s so aggressively irritating to read that you could use that font to hide eg. backdoors in code, and reviewers would instinctively skip over those parts just to avoid the pain.
Honestly I could see radon for comments only. It makes it clear that it’s a comment by the font alone.
Except I like reading the comments…
I can too. I’ve seen something like that before. It was interesting, but not interesting enough for me to care about it as a feature.
I mean, Comic Code is pretty damn good.
That was interesting how they adjusted sizes based on adjacent letters. Good idea
Like kerning pairs, but with character swapping instead of kerning adjustments. It’s a really clever use of the language features available in Unicode.
Too bad I’m married to JetBrains Mono.
I broke up with JB Mono a while ago :'(
sorry i already have comic shanns for that
That doesn’t look half bad, actually!
i use it in visual studio code and it looks really nice!
Oh I’m gonna have to give that a try, thanks!
I like Hack as my font of choice, but I will probably give this a shot. It’s a font, there is no risk of data collection, Microsoft style bugs, or other Microsoft-associated product issues.
I used Dejavu Sans for like 10 years, and Hack is the perfect incremental improvement. I’ve tried to use other fonts but I keep coming back to Hack.
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91347/how-can-a-font-be-used-for-privilege-escalation
Not a serious rebuttal. But yes, MS has found a way for Windows to be vulnerable to attacks using fonts.
What the…
I meant to link the CVE sorry. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3402
Having different font styles depending on the context is a really nice feature. I’ll definitely give it a try.
It’s a cool idea and the example they gave actually seemed pretty neat.
I’d (somewhat perversely) love to see this feature tried in a terminal emulator. ANSI does actually define escape codes for switching to alternative fonts (ESC [ 10 m through ESC [ 19 m) though I don’t know of any software or even term drawing library that uses it.
That would really be neat.
Kitty terminal has a lot of configurations for fonts. I beleive you can get down to adjustments for specific charecters. Idk if it uses the specific technology you are suggesting. But it is explained in the kitty.conf docs.
A lot of code editors support that without the weird “healing” features they laid out here.
VSCode has pretty decent semantic based formatting options.
Very interesting technique to get the widths of the glyphs uniform without them looking ugly in most cases. OK, one can make it look bad if you know the “pain points” of the system, but in normal flowing texts, the fonts do look good.
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I’d never bother changing whatever default font the editor comes with and I don’t understand why anyone would care to
Looks lovely! The art of fonts is something I will never understand but always appreciate. This website is also brilliant in showing everything dynamically and explaining why it all matters. Safe to say Github will start using it everywhere? It’s also open source, which is nice (and makes sense considering what Github is striving for).
Edit: Not 100% sure on texture healing though. Toggling it on and off in the example makes me feel like texture healing makes everything look weirder. It makes the font look less monospace which should be good, but it just messes with my mind when some letters look slightly different in different contexts. Like the spacing is not immediately obvious to me and having the same letters look different is throwing my mind in a loop. I guess I’ll need to try it to see if it’s comfortable.
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Really confusing name for new users, considering we have monotype fonts… Guess we should be happy they didn’t name it monatype…
That’s what happens when we let soydevs name things.
Hey! Soydevs are people too.
Didnt they?
That Krypton font do looking nice
Yeah, like, since when does Microsoft put out something both functional and cool, ya know?
Well, their previous fonts are nice, Calibri etc
I didn’t think I had strong opinions on fonts.
Turns out I viscerally despise “handwriting” fonts. They’re harder to read. It just makes me recoil.
I also intensely dislike "ligatures " that turn like
==into a separate glyph. Or the one that turns=into the > with the line under it. No. Stop. That’s not what I typed. That’s not what I’m looking for when I scan the text.Side note: I assume someone is feeling clever and is thinking of replying with a handwriting font message with ligatures. You don’t have to. I already imagined it.
The texture healing seems cool though, but I didn’t immediately notice or understand until I read through the detailed section on it.
I’m a simple man, I just use DejaVu Sans Mono without any ligatures or other fancy stuff.
Works everywhere.
