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This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.
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More distinctive period, line ending, and separation characters #606

Open nashpatty opened 2 years ago

nashpatty commented 2 years ago

Curious if there's any plans of making periods, commas, colons, semi-colons etc. more distinct. Stylistically, these characters are easy to tell apart, but contextually, they're too thin, and easy to miss. For example: cascadia mono

Screen Shot 2021-12-06 at 1 31 50 PM

vs pragmata pro

Screen Shot 2021-12-06 at 1 24 55 PM

As you can see, the presence of the special characters is a lot clearer at a glance in the second picture, compared to the first.

Perhaps increasing the weight/size of these characters a little more would go a long way. Particularly for the period character. They're really well designed, but a tad bit too thin currently.

aaronbell commented 2 years ago

Tbh, I find the punctuation in pragmata pro overly dark.

I’ll take another look at Cascadia’s but it’ll probably be a while before I can get to it.

nashpatty commented 2 years ago

I understand. Something between cascadia and pragmata would be the sweet spot. Perhaps a better example might have been fira or ibm plex for what I was thinking of. Thanks for the reply, and great work on the font! :smile: