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Re:Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by M... by Monkeyget on Saturday May 24, 2014 @03:55AM (#7792879)
Fira Mono takes an awful lot of vertical space. To me it looks like inconsolata but less legible due to extra serif.
Re:Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by M... by alxndr on Saturday May 24, 2014 @02:34PM (#7793992)
After reading a few shell scripts in Fira Mono, I find the serif on the lowercase "r" very distracting compared to Inconsolata. The lowercase "i" too, even though it looks very similar to Inconsolata's lowercase "i".

Also, for some reason I find the dot in the number "0" to be more distracting than using a slash to distinguish it from an uppercase "O".

Re:Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by M... by buddystiff on Saturday May 24, 2014 @07:56AM (#7793151)
I kinda like it. It forces a comfortable min line height that makes it very readable. However, upon further investigation it breaks readability of text in menus/lists that have max height shorter than the expected standard fonts line height. Hence cutting off the text... huge bummer. Oh well, back to uncomfortably dense fonts :(