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larsenwork / monoid

Customisable coding font with alternates, ligatures and contextual positioning. Crazy crisp at 12px/9pt. http://larsenwork.com/monoid/
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Size 9 shown as size 11? #143

Closed estan closed 8 years ago

estan commented 8 years ago

This is might not be a bug in Monoid, but I'd like to get to the bottom of it.

Normally I use Source Code Pro at size 9 in Konsole, and it looks like this:

konsole_source_code_pro_at_size_9

Recently I tried out Monoid at size 9, and it looks like this:

konsole_monoid_at_size_9

Why is Source Code Pro shown properly as 9 pixels high, but Monoid as 11 pixels high? Shouldn't they be the same height? I actually like the look of Monoid better, but I need it smaller (but still crisp).

estan commented 8 years ago

Forgot to say: All my other monospace fonts (Nimbus Mono, Ubuntu Mono, Liberation Mono, ...) show up at 9 px height when the size is set to 9.

luben commented 8 years ago

In your screenshots the same number of lines take the same space of the screen. Monoid letters look bigger because the bodies of the letters are bigger and the line spacing is smaller. You can compare with PragmataPro that uses similar approach to improve readability

estan commented 8 years ago

Aha. I see. Thanks, closing this issue.