JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing

Re:JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technica... by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:25PM (#24734611)

The asterisk is far too heavy for anyone working in a language that makes heavy use of it.

I normally use Inconsolata at "11 point" (quotes because this is a nominal value, not actual) size; JuliaMono is larger when used at the same nominal size, but going down to 10pt results in a level of graininess that I don't find acceptible.

Great effort, but I'll stick with Inconsolate for now.

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Re:JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technica... by npr11 on Friday October 09, 2020 @06:34PM (#24735117)

Funny you should mention the asterisk, as the author of JuliaMono has just written a brilliant blog post about it: https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-10-09-asterisk/

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Re:JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technica... by gwenzek on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:28PM (#24734638)

I find their light asterisk quite delighting (it's a font option, don't know how to enable them though)

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Re:JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technica... by dragonwriter on Saturday October 10, 2020 @10:36AM (#24739269)

> The asterisk is far too heavy for anyone working in a language that makes heavy use of it.

It has an alternate, lighter asterisk.

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