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belluzj / fantasque-sans

A font family with a great monospaced variant for programmers.
http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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i don't know where to "post this" #13

Closed vltr closed 10 years ago

vltr commented 10 years ago

well, first, sorry for putting "this" as an issue, because it isn't.

i am dyslexic. not that i can't read a book or something, but i must use something to help me out sometimes (a rule, text mouse selection, and so on). i would like to congratulate everyone that made this font. i don't know if it was your intention or whatsoever, but my life as a programmer / sysadmin became a lot easier because of you. my many, many thanks.

best regards, richard.

belluzj commented 10 years ago

I did not do anything on purpose for dyslexics, so your story is a rather nice surprise :D I am very happy to know that my font is actually useful :) Thanks for sharing! Keep it up.

vltr commented 10 years ago

yeah! again, i'm very grateful, i have it in all my computers :) my best regards!

tregusti commented 10 years ago

I must ask if you could please explain what it is with this font that helps you?

belluzj commented 10 years ago

Yes, if you can give some specific criteria, I would be interested too

vltr commented 10 years ago

Well, at a glance, I must say that special chars (like [], {}, (), ') seems pretty good compared to other monospaced fonts. It's easy to spot them around (and to differentiate between { and (, as an example).

Second of all, there are some chars that are very different, but in the most cases (of fonts), looks kinda the same. Examples: v and w, l and t (l looks taller), n and m, a and d, y and v, k and x. The numbers are also quite friendly to read.

Of course, this can be different from one person to another, but, at least for me, it's much better then any font I've seen around.