Monaspace
monaspace.githubnext.com
An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
  • muhanga@programming.dev
    1·
    1 year ago

    And sadly one more font I will never be able to use due to missing support of non-latin characters.

    Sadly some features are nice.

  • jeffhykin@lemm.ee
    0·
    1 year ago

    I like all of it, except for that awful “texture healing”. Imagine having words above & below like

    i=mins
w=maxs

    But the m’s just slightly don’t line up because the top one is wider than the bottom one. I’d feel like my editor was gaslighting me 🤢

  • codemonk@programming.dev
    0·
    1 year ago

    Technically, font healing is a neat idea. It fails for text that does not meat its requirements, i.e. two ‘m’ next to each other. Depending on the characters around them, this might create two different ‘m’.

    This is unavoidable, of course. The only solution are proportional fonts. So font healing is a nice idea. It creates a more consistent spacing at the price of less consistent glyphs. Whether one likes this compromise, is a matter of taste. I personally lean towards consistent glyphs, but I did not try it for an extended period.

    • Matěȷ@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      Ideally, texture healing would distribute the resizing over the whole word, so it would look better and be used in more cases. But that is not possible with OpenType fonts as far as I know.

      Commit Mono has smart kerning, which is similar, but it only shifts, not morphs, the shapes. So it avoids that the same letter looks differently in different places. It also works on triplets, not just pairs, so it is more widely applicable. See this comparison.