The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.
At least 1Il & 0O are different and (mostly) easily distinguishable in all the variants. Only exception is in the Argon variant 1 and l are too similar IMO.
Great idea but the name texture healing is terrible. It’s not healing anything and there are no textures with fonts. Dynamic or flexible weight makes a lot more sense.
I agree that texture healing is a bit too vague about that they’re really using it for. Its really for kerning pair without disrupting the monospaced grid. Maybe, since the audience for these fonts aren’t usually typographers, they should have called it Monospaced Kerning Pairs?
Texture is a term and feature of typefaces in design however. Usually described for fonts used in body text, or larger blocks of text.
While it probably doesn’t affect shorter lines of text used in most coding languages, it can be harder to read when smaller sizes are used. Monospaced MmWw are the worst culprits.
One memorable observation on typographic texture was made by Heinz Peyer, a Swiss poet, who said that reading a text composed in Helvetica was like walking through a field of stones, whereas reading a text in Syntax was like walking through a field of flowers. (23)
Form is often susceptible to logical analysis, and pattern somewhat so, but texture evades precise description because its repetitions are so numerous, its features so small, and its interactions so refined, that the multifarious complexity of the emergent image resists orderly analysis. Texture requires a holistic more than an analytic under standing.
Ironically the second paragraph is turning out to be largely incorrect with smarter ways to analyze blocks of typeface texture. Also this second paragraph nicely illustrates the utter wankery present in a lot of typography circles and analysis.
Gotta justify that grad school bill somehow (pun intended).
Like kerning pairs, but with character swapping instead of kerning adjustments. It’s a really clever use of the language features available in Unicode.
Very interesting technique to get the widths of the glyphs uniform without them looking ugly in most cases. OK, one can make it look bad if you know the “pain points” of the system, but in normal flowing texts, the fonts do look good.
This “texture healing” seems to be based on commit mono’s smart kerning https://commitmono.com/ although it only shifts letters around, it doesn’t change the characters.
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At least 1Il & 0O are different and (mostly) easily distinguishable in all the variants. Only exception is in the Argon variant 1 and l are too similar IMO.
Love Neon. Very easy to read.
This is brilliant. Definitely going to try this tomorrow.
This seems neat, too bad it requires IDE support. Hope JetBrains IDEs support it soon.
Iosevka for life, baby.
That was interesting how they adjusted sizes based on adjacent letters. Good idea
Great idea but the name texture healing is terrible. It’s not healing anything and there are no textures with fonts. Dynamic or flexible weight makes a lot more sense.
Getting major Marvin Gaye vibes.
When I get to squinting, I want… textural healing
I agree that texture healing is a bit too vague about that they’re really using it for. Its really for kerning pair without disrupting the monospaced grid. Maybe, since the audience for these fonts aren’t usually typographers, they should have called it Monospaced Kerning Pairs?
Texture is a term and feature of typefaces in design however. Usually described for fonts used in body text, or larger blocks of text.
While it probably doesn’t affect shorter lines of text used in most coding languages, it can be harder to read when smaller sizes are used. Monospaced MmWw are the worst culprits.
—Source
Ironically the second paragraph is turning out to be largely incorrect with smarter ways to analyze blocks of typeface texture. Also this second paragraph nicely illustrates the utter wankery present in a lot of typography circles and analysis.
Gotta justify that grad school bill somehow (pun intended).
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Oh interesting! In that vain, it does make sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain that.
Like kerning pairs, but with character swapping instead of kerning adjustments. It’s a really clever use of the language features available in Unicode.
Great, now whenever I want to talk to someone about Mona Font, they’re going to get confused.
I want to make a joke about how terrible the name is with just throwing in an ‘a’, but I don’t think it would be right since I’m using Fira Code.
I use Comic Mono and love it. Code is 100% easier on the eyes and to read.
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Very interesting technique to get the widths of the glyphs uniform without them looking ugly in most cases. OK, one can make it look bad if you know the “pain points” of the system, but in normal flowing texts, the fonts do look good.
This “texture healing” seems to be based on commit mono’s smart kerning https://commitmono.com/ although it only shifts letters around, it doesn’t change the characters.
Ooh, the sales pitch of “the best font is the one you don’t notice” is quite intriguing
i don’t see ligatures in apps i use, like notepad++, Windows Terminal, Notepad and Notepads, also shame it doesn’t support powerline features
I’m a simple man, I just use DejaVu Sans Mono without any ligatures or other fancy stuff.
Works everywhere.
I personally use JetBrainsMono, it’s my favourite. What do you guys think?
Yeah it’s the best one for my eyes, I use it everywhere.
I love that one. I’m currently using Google sans mono which is great as well.
I also like working with that font.
Another one? Why didn’t they contribute fixes to an existing font family? 🙄
Neon looks good. The rest are awful.
Terminus is still my favorite monospaced font followed by Roboto Mono, so ignore me.
I personally like Argon a lot.
Radon kinda looks like a fancy Comic Sans