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tonsky / FiraCode

Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Add (better) hinting for small font-sizes #243

Open thany opened 8 years ago

thany commented 8 years ago

Just as a test, I decided to make my editor font slightly smaller than what I'm used to. capture As you can see, the !== ligature is misaligned, and the || has a slightly blurred left-hand line. Both these (and other similar) issues could be solved with hinting.

jdreesen commented 8 years ago

I'm suffering from this issue. Especially === and !== look very bad because the middle line is a bit too high. I really really love the font, but this bugs me everytime i see it.

I'm using PhpStorm 2016.2 with 12pt on 1920x1080 and Windows 10 (if that matters).

tonsky commented 8 years ago

I’ll do my best but figuring out manual true type hinting if far harder than it might seem

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I'm suffering from this issue. Especially === and !== look very bad because the middle line is a bit too high. I really really love the font, but this bugs me everytime i see it.

I'm using PhpStorm 2016.2 with 12pt on 1920x1080 and Windows 10 (if that matters).

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tonsky commented 8 years ago

Related https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues/76

JABirchall commented 7 years ago

This happens to all fonts at certain sizes, I find that FiraCode works great at 12px and it's also comfortable for me to type with.

thany commented 7 years ago

12px is darn small! I think my editor is at 12pt (which translates to 16px at 96dpi pixel density) but is also zoomed in a step or two.

So it's 20px-ish for me 😃