Re:Input: Fonts for Code
by MarsAscendant on Saturday January 12, 2019 @01:50PM
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> but it feels way too wide
It seems the weirdest thing to me that fonts – especially monospaced fonts – vary by width.
I'm working on a forum redesign at the moment. Picking a font took a surprising while, because the font the forum had used – Source Sans Pro – is naturally narrow. Put something wider in, and it's entirely not the same.
I have, similarly, replaced monospaced fonts everywhere with Fira Code. Characteristically, Iosevka looks too narrow to me. :)
Re:Input: Fonts for Code
by jimbo1qaz on Saturday January 12, 2019 @02:54PM
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I think Mononoki has reasonably similar proportions to Source Sans (matches better than Source Code), and is pretty and highly legible. Only issue is "bold is taller than normal" and vertically misaligned parentheses.
It seems the weirdest thing to me that fonts – especially monospaced fonts – vary by width.
I'm working on a forum redesign at the moment. Picking a font took a surprising while, because the font the forum had used – Source Sans Pro – is naturally narrow. Put something wider in, and it's entirely not the same.
I have, similarly, replaced monospaced fonts everywhere with Fira Code. Characteristically, Iosevka looks too narrow to me. :)