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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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Testing: Switch to 12px and 9pt as default sizes #95

Closed larsenwork closed 9 years ago

larsenwork commented 9 years ago
  1. Quit your program
  2. Download and install https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3019777/9pt/Monoid-Regular.ttf
  3. Reopen your program and set font size to
    • 12px on Mac
    • 9pt on Windows

Tell me if it looks good or if there are any issues.

Thanks:)

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

@tharibo, @chuckfossen, @KarolS :smile:

plgruener commented 9 years ago

Linux (gedit), 9pt. looks ok to me (and 9pt is my preferable coding size, so thanks). except for the <= >= ligatures, which are still pretty blurry (but were so before). monoid-9pt

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

Cheers - it's just a number though, same size as previous 15px/11.25pt :wink: Not sure if much can be done about the >= ligature...difficult to grid fit slanted lines

tharibo commented 9 years ago

Hey Andreas.

Here's the result: image

Ligatures don't work better with this version, but it's possible that rendering is sharper... in a good sense.

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

@tharibo thanks - yeah I'm not sure anything can be done to fix those from my point of view. I don't know if there's a forum for your editor where you can report the bug?

tharibo commented 9 years ago

Well I can try to find one. Microsoft is releasing a lot of software in open source, but AFAIK, not Visual Studio... yet.

How can I describe the bug there? I'm in no way familiar with how the ligatures work or even how a font is built.

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

@tharibo for e.g. -> I'm using the opentype feature called "calt"

It's the same feature I'm using for e.g. >= which seems to work so I'm thinking they must do something with the "hyphen-minus" sign.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko/topic_feature_file_syntax.html#5.f http://graphemica.com/-

ElectronicWar commented 9 years ago

Looks great on Sublime 3 (Windows 8.1 x64). It's in a really good size now for me to consider as new main font, the old 14pt was just too big on my 1680x1050 displays.

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larsenwork commented 9 years ago

@ElectronicWar thanks, low res displays at 12px/9pt is where Monoid really shines compared to most other coding fonts :smile:

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

So it looks fine on Win, Linux and Mac :smirk: