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Re:Go fonts by dbl9 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:01AM (#12977960)
Do you write OCaml or C (comments) by any chance? I've often found it hard to discover a typeface that has

    (* this is a comment *)
vertically centered. My usual choice is Fira Mono because it looks great and centers * vertically, though I would love a serif monospace font. Maybe Go Mono will be revised but I doubt it will be updated anytime soon.

When you say "6 point" do you mean it's bigger than usual?

Is there a place to obtain SF Mono without an Apple Developer account if you don't happen to have a macOS installation handy?

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Re:Go fonts by jballanc on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:16PM (#12980482)
I've found the vertically centered "" to be far superior almost everywhere. Definitely for comments, but even for pointers (yes, I do write a fair bit of C) it becomes clearer that the glyph is part of the type signature, and not just a footnote.

By "6 point" I mean the character itself has 6 "arms", instead of the typical 5. For my taste, it makes the glyph feel more balanced.

There is this repo: https://github.com/hbin/top-programming-fonts . Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with the legality of obtaining Menlo without OS X/macOS. It is a variation on Bitstream Vera Sans, which is AFAIK Open Source, but I am completely ignorant when it comes to how licenses apply to fonts (as opposed to code).

As for SF Mono, that seems to be impossible to obtain even if* you have macOS and an Apple Developer account (only the UI fonts are available for download). I managed to dig them out of the Xcode application bundle and install them as system-wide fonts, but was greeted with a very scary warning stating that installing these fonts could destabilize my entire system (so far my OS is still running, though)...YMMV.

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Re:Go fonts by dbl9 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:53PM (#12980844)
Centered double quotes?
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Re:Go fonts by jballanc on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:30PM (#12981848)
Gah...silly markdown-not-really-markdown formatting. Should have been: "*"
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