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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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Straight quotation mark's are indistinguishable from curly quotation marks #81

Closed samcv closed 7 years ago

samcv commented 7 years ago

screenshot_20170627_003225

I like this font, but this issue prevents my from using it while coding. I program Perl 6 which allows you to use curly single or double quotes as well as straight quotes, so not being able to tell which type of quote is on the screen is a huge issue. If you see the screenshot above, you will find you cannot distungish any of those quotation marks. So if I am programming, I don't know whether I am dealing with a curly quote or a straight quote, forcing me to assume of guess which it is and hope I had guessed properly.

I'm fine with the rest of the font being kind of curly and fun, I like that. But when you cannot distungish between characters then it becomes an issue. The single quotes are the main issue, if you see below I compare fantasque sans to DejaVu Sans Mono:

Fantasque-sans: screenshot_20170627_001857

DejaVu Sans Mono: screenshot_20170627_002044

belluzj commented 7 years ago

You're in luck because this issue has been fixed for a very long time: see https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/issues/57#issuecomment-166153003

Just download the latest version of the font and enjoy: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/releases/tag/v1.7.1

samcv commented 7 years ago

Yay! Awesome. Looks like Gentoo needs to update its font. I checked and they have version 2014.07… I'll have to make a bug ticket for it.