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An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
https://monaspace.githubnext.com
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Maybe mention Andreas Larsen's monoid as a similar approach to texture healing? #85

Closed JobLeonard closed 7 months ago

JobLeonard commented 7 months ago

Andreas Larsen's monoid, an open source font from 2015, uses a similar approach to texture healing. The big difference visually speaking is that it does not resize glyphs, it only repositions them:

https://medium.com/larsenwork-andreas-larsen/class-based-contextual-positioning-in-monospaced-fonts-cb6b8b9ffe6f

Still, the problem it is trying to solve is exactly the same, and contextually adjusting kerning is very similar to texture healing.

I don't want to suggest that you took inspiration from his font, but I think it's nice when articles introducing ideas acknowledge other similar works. In a way it also lends some credence to the idea, right? "Look, it's not just us! Someone else was annoyed enough with the exact same problem that he came up with a very similar solution!"

idan commented 7 months ago

Hello!

Hey that's cool, we've never seen this before. Ultimately, as you say, Texture Healing is a different approach to a problem that has existed in monospaced faces since forever. If we decide to expand our docs to include references to others' fonts, we'll include a reference to Monoid.