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Re:Modern Mono by bigbottomenergy on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:35PM (#34777991)
Wow screenshots of text rendered on a notoriously bad text renderer, then downscaled and posted in a blog. A text-based description of the fonts might be worse, but only barely.

Yeah, man, so much effort and every screenshot looks identical in context in the blog post.

Iosevka and Iosevka-Comfy for the win.

Re:Modern Mono by rzzzt on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:38PM (#34778041)
Click on the images to embiggen.
Re:Modern Mono by CyberDildonics on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:51PM (#34778251)
You probably meant 'enlarge'. "Embiggen" was made up by the simpsons as a joke.
Re:Modern Mono by emptybits on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:15PM (#34778685)
All words in use today were made up at some point and then accepted through popular use. Merriam-Webster accepted this one into their dictionary some years ago.[1]

And Dictionary.com acknowledges it may have been published previously in 1884 by C.A. Ward as an example of a barbarous verb.[2][3]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen

[2] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/embiggen

[3] https://academic.oup.com/nq/article-abstract/s6-X/242/135/43...

Re:Modern Mono by throwanem on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:54PM (#34778302)
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Re:Modern Mono by timbray on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:12PM (#34778627)
Anyone can embiggen me any time they want.
Re:Modern Mono by sorokod on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:11PM (#34778606)
In the same episode as that other word - amazing
Re:Modern Mono by rzzzt on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:21PM (#34778788)
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
Re:Modern Mono by chungy on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:04PM (#34779503)
You understood the meaning well enough, which is the purpose of a word. Perhaps you need to embiggen your perspective.
Re:Modern Mono by TimTheTinker on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:42PM (#34778104)
I tried Iosevka but it felt too much like the bitmap ROM fonts on old computers and terminals. All those fonts were a little too pixel-dense.
Re:Modern Mono by bitwize on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:45PM (#34778148)
That may be why it -- and Envy Code R -- are the only "modern" monospace fonts I can stand for very long. Everything else just looks like IBM Letter Gothic, or some other typewriter vendor's substitute for Letter Gothic. Hence why I use bitmap or bitmap-like fonts for terminals.