Re:Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts
by merecactus on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @08:54PM
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Thank you so much for making and sharing this. I'm especially grateful that you included the code variant. I'm not a programmer but love monospace fonts but the lack of a slashed zero in so many otherwise lovely fonts has been a deal breaker for me!
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Spotted my kin!
What is it that makes slashed zeroes so nuch more appealing than the other kinds of "zeroes"? Slashed zeroes are definitely much better than those nasty dotted inverse donut zeroes
How does a dot in a zero even make any kinda logical sense? It's like a piece of dough floating in midair in the center of a donut
Dotted zeroes [insert copypasta] bad
I don't even know why I'm so obsessed with the slash in zeroes
Re:Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts
by sollewitt on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @10:02AM
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I will defend the honor of dotted zeros! I really like the zero in Space Mono, I think that nailed the retro future aesthetic.
IMH(and no design school)O when the character is oblong and the dot is a circle, it creates a similar contrast to the straight slash through an ellipse, but with less visual weight.
Re:Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts
by mprovost on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @11:12AM
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Dotted zeros remind me of the BIOS screen on an old monochrome Compaq luggable. Good times.
Yeah the dot is mostly a manner of preference. It looks less crowded than slashed zero maybe? The dotted zero does disambiguate from U+00D8 [LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98).