githubnext / monaspace

An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
https://monaspace.githubnext.com
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Narrower font widths #22

Open cayhorstmann opened 11 months ago

cayhorstmann commented 11 months ago

Could the width axis go to smaller values than 100? Narrow fonts are useful to show longer lines in a limited space. https://horstmann.com/unblog/2010-11-22/fonts.html

curiousdannii commented 11 months ago

I've been using Iosevka for it's very narrow variants, so having more narrow font choices would be great.

See also https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/issues/2081

kizu commented 11 months ago

Agree: the minimal width of the fonts seems to be larger than widths of other fonts, making it harder to Monaspace as a drop-in replacement, as it increases the overall text column width. Would be nice to have some lower width values available.

aclarknexient commented 11 months ago

I'd very much like to use a condensed/narrow version of these new fonts!

I currently use MPlus Code which unfortunately doesn't support ligatures, and I'm intrigued by Monaspace and the potential for more typesetting while writing code.

For further condensed examples, look at:

Personally, I'd like to see Monaspace fonts support 50, 62.5, and 75% widths.

Thank you for releasing them, good fonts are very difficult to get right!

cdluminate commented 11 months ago

+1. The font is too wide. There is not a "Thin" variant, but a "SemiWide" and a "Wide" variant.

Igonato commented 11 months ago

For me Consolas font has the perfect width. Would be nice if the smallest width variant reached at least that narrowness.

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kikones34 commented 10 months ago

I would love to use these fonts, but this is holding me back. We use a 120 character line limit for our codebase, and with these fonts at minimum width the code no longer fits into my screen :(

NuckChorris commented 5 months ago

Extremely excited to see this has been added to a Project and Milestone! Looking forward to the 1.3 release, hoping to switch from Iosevka when it drops 💃

cdluminate commented 5 months ago

Extremely excited to see this has been added to a Project and Milestone! Looking forward to the 1.3 release, hoping to switch from Iosevka when it drops 💃

+1. It is a necessary feature to implement before I can use this font in my terminal for a sensible information density.