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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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Request: Light monoid? #146

Open leeola opened 8 years ago

leeola commented 8 years ago

Would it be possible to get a thin variant on Monoid? Coming from Source Code Pro Light, Monoid Regular/Retina looks very thick. Thoughts?

For reference..

OS: OSX, Mavericks App: iTerm2 Size: 12pt (Comparable to Source Code Pro's 14pt)

edit: Apparently i'm looking for "Light", not "Thin". Corrected.

larsenwork commented 8 years ago

have you tried changing the antialiasing? (you can do that in atom and other similar editors)

leeola commented 8 years ago

Yes, i tried both with antialiasing and without. For what it's worth, the text is very crisp, that is not my problem. My problem is the thickness of the letters.

As a comparison, on my screen Monoid's thickness looks similar to Source Code Pro Regular or Source Code Pro Medium. Both of which are very thick, in my opinion. I vastly prefer Source Code Pro Light or Source Code Pro ExtraLight (hence this request).

Not sure how well these will com across on screenshots, but here are some examples:

Source Code Pro Regular

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Monoid

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And what i'd like to see, is a thickness similar to this, Source Code Pro ExtraLight (a Light and ExtraLight would be great, but the below is ExtraLight)

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The images don't seem to come across that clearly, not sure if they're being compressed by Github or my Screenshot app, but hopefully they help illustrate it, a tiny bit. It's purely preference of course, but that's why i'm asking :)

pauldhunt commented 8 years ago

hooray for multiple-weight coding font families! 🙌

larsenwork commented 8 years ago

I'll probably start drawing it once I switch to rMBP (waiting for a long overdue update) I don't really have a use for it now as monoid is all about pixel alignment for coding use. There are many prettier monospaced fonts for text use.

astrolemonade commented 1 year ago

@larsenwork can you please consider adding a medium weight to Monoid?