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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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Visual Studio 2013 #87

Closed tharibo closed 9 years ago

tharibo commented 9 years ago

Downloaded from website : Alternates: None LineHeight: M Font: Normal Ligatures: On

Visual Studio 2013 update 3 on Windows 7 64bits Professional image

The fonts seems too thin, and not really smooth. Some ligatures don't work : for example.

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

Cheers. What font size are you using? Other windows users are having trouble figuring the font size out.

Thinness is by design (to make it look sharp on low res displays) but a slightly bolder version will happen at some point. Smooth?

Does the <!-- ligature work elsewhere? E.g. if you create a plain.txt file so there is no code highlighting going on.

tharibo commented 9 years ago

Hey, thanks for your quick reply!

This is with font size 11: image

12: image

16: image

24: image

Regarding thinness, it feels to me thinner in my screenshots than in the code example on your mainsite (rendered in Google Chrome): image

Regarding smoothness, it seems like I don't have antialiasing on some characters, lesser-or-equal-than, or & for example. image

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

Cheers - to me it looks like all characters in Visual Studio doesn't have antialiasing? Maybe this can help http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/03/15/visual-studio-2010-text-clarity-cleartype-and-aliased-fonts.aspx

Also could you try https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3019777/Monoid-Regular.ttf at 12pt and take another screenshot?

tharibo commented 9 years ago

After downloading and overwriting the installed font, I restarted a fresh Visual Studio. The font is set at 12pt: image

I'm having a look at your other link.

tharibo commented 9 years ago

ClearType is activated on my system. Interesting link though.

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

ok, not sure how to improve rendering in Visual Studio if it looks better in chrome. Windows is unfortunately generally know for it's bad font rendering.

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

closing this as there isn't anything I can do to fix - it looks like an issue with visual studio doing weird stuff to some letters (all the ligatures not working has the hyphen in them) so the bug report should be moved to visual studio forums if they exist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯