Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
by danellis on Friday July 21, 2017 @01:19PM
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I agree, except for the www ligature. It just looks odd to only have part of a domain name compressed.
Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
by falcolas on Friday July 21, 2017 @01:55PM
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The www is a bit artsy for my tastes as well, at least in a programming sense, but making a ligature of www isn't a terrible thing, IMO. It already almost creates its own ligature, especially when used with a serif font.
Heck, a lot of people I know will make a verbal ligature of www - something like 'dub dub dub'.
Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
by cordite on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:06PM
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www was unnerving to me (and a couple of my team members) too.
In a way I am interested in psychological basis for my innate rejection of this. Conceptually, I comprehend why it is made into it's own ligature, like !=, it is a unit of information these days.
Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
by vanderZwan on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:05PM
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Well, for starters it's an abbreviation, whereas -> or != is an approximation of a symbol, so that makes it different from the rest. Also, you're on a website that has no www in any part of its website, so it's not nearly as ubiquitous.
If anything I think it makes more sense to have :// as a ligature.
Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
by cooper12 on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:49PM
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> The act of joining together particular character combinations into more aesthetically pleasing forms is common and very old practice.
Yep, the ampersand symbol "&" originated as a ligature for et, Latin for "and". You can see this more obviously in italic families and some fonts expose a more fancier variant as well. Example: http://i.imgur.com/Rsmmql9.jpg.
It looks odd only because we're accustomed to seeing the individual characters due to display limitations inherited from typewriters and TTY machines.