Re:Texture Healing for Monospace Fonts
by seanhunter on Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:56AM
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It's a fundamentally bad idea. I think for anything to look monospace for me the following two properties are non-negotiable.
1) Horizontal spacing needs to align vertically between glyphs of the same letters on separate lines. This is the example I give elsewhere of a letter "i" being in a very slightly different position than the same letter just two lines above it. I personally find this extremely disturbing and unpleasant to look at in monospace.
2) The glyph of a letter needs to be the exact same between instances of the same letter that are in any kind of visual proximity. This is the "gimme" example the parent of your comment gives. AnyThinG ElSe LoOkS lIkE jumblycase. Which I think we can all agree is just plain horrible.
1) Horizontal spacing needs to align vertically between glyphs of the same letters on separate lines. This is the example I give elsewhere of a letter "i" being in a very slightly different position than the same letter just two lines above it. I personally find this extremely disturbing and unpleasant to look at in monospace.
2) The glyph of a letter needs to be the exact same between instances of the same letter that are in any kind of visual proximity. This is the "gimme" example the parent of your comment gives. AnyThinG ElSe LoOkS lIkE jumblycase. Which I think we can all agree is just plain horrible.