Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code
Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code
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.
sorry i already have comic shanns for that
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.
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.
https://www.programmingfonts.org/#hack
You can check out fonts here and filter based on mono spacing, ligatures, etc. Hack is by far my favorite font but I just wish I could use it with nerdfont/jetbrains ligatures. It just has this beautiful way of being able to look open and readable while taking up less space than fonts like fira or jetbrains.
Cool for them for making a font, but personally don't think it's up to firacode, hack, jetbrains or many other fonts out there
Wait, why did they invent the phrase "texture healing" for literally what all mono space fonts try to do: make a monospace font that doesn't look like cluttered shit.
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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.
At least 1Il & 0O are different and (mostly) easily distinguishable in all the variants. Only exception is in the Argon variant 1 and l are too similar IMO.
This "texture healing" seems to be based on commit mono's smart kerning https://commitmono.com/ although it only shifts letters around, it doesn't change the characters.
I want to make a joke about how terrible the name is with just throwing in an 'a', but I don't think it would be right since I'm using Fira Code.
I mean, they look nice, but I don't dislike whatever the default font that I use is, and I'm definitely not going to go out of my way to change a font. As long as it's legible, I don't really give two shits what the font is.
The texture healing technique is technically brilliant, but imho looks weird.
I will stick to Source Code Pro.
So I agree with OP on the style of the press release being infuriating.
It seems like a lot of tech releases these days are written for non technical journalists (ie The Verge), "tech influencers", and cargo cultists. They always read in a way that's super overhyped to the point where you almost want to be dismissive of the end product as a form of protests.
However the tech seems cool. Between VSCode and GitHub we'll be seeing a lot of feedback sooner or later.
cool. i will still use fira code, but it may be a nicer default alternative to courier new
Cascading Code failed to impress me, although I'll give this one a try, I doubt it's better than Consolas.
This is brilliant. Definitely going to try this tomorrow.
Seems neat, I do love Sauce Code Pro though.
Love Neon. Very easy to read.
Iosevka offers too much customization to leave it—especially removing ligature abuse.
cool. ive wanted a monospaced times-alike like their Xenon here.
Looks nice! Is this going to become the default font in GitHub and VSCode?
This seems neat, too bad it requires IDE support. Hope JetBrains IDEs support it soon.
i don't see ligatures in apps i use, like notepad++, Windows Terminal, Notepad and Notepads, also shame it doesn't support powerline features
More fonts is nice, I'll give it a try
I'm all about MonoLisa, but I'll give this a look
Iosevka for life, baby.
One superfamily.
Five fonts.
And my three variable axes.
Looks really good, but I'll stick with my favourite M+ Code, which I use in iTerm2, Emacs, and VSCode.
https://www.programmingfonts.org/#mplus
Also in https://www.nerdfonts.com/
Edited to add: they have semiwide and wide, but no condensed? Weird. That contextual resizing is pretty cool though!
Great, now whenever I want to talk to someone about Mona Font, they're going to get confused.
I can't shake this feeling that these are lacking something, like I remember looking at Fira for the first time and being like wow, even jetbrains mono had a sort of generic charm. These on the other hand, are just meh.
Maybe they are someone's cup of tea though. I am sure in 6 months I will be hearing about how GitHub invented the developer font of some rubbish like that.
This is pretty cool. But I'll stick with Anonymous pro.