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I use a very simple test to verify if fonts are usable in programmer/technical environments: - check the readability of lower and upper case "i" (india) agains
by thesimp 8y ago
I use a very simple test to verify if fonts are usable in programmer/technical environments:
- check the readability of lower and upper case "i" (india) against the number "1" (one)and the lower and upper case "l" (lima).
- Check the readability of the lower and upper case "o" (oscar) against the number "0".
- check if the font can be used monospaced with being reasonable to good readability.
If it passes those checks then it is often good enough for me.
- Syzygies 8y ago- how much code can one fit on a screen, still maximum legibiilty? - Is there a lighter weight variant from which one can steal ()[]{} ? Essential for Lisp programming, nice for every language. My current winner is Roboto Mono Regular, with brackets borrowed from Roboto Mono Light. The font disappears on me (attitude takes bandwidth) and one would never know I played with the brackets till one goes back to another font, and it becomes obvious brackets on a Retina display have no business having the same weight as body text. Sample ('Zoom Out' for realistic scale): https://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/etc/RobotoLisp.png https://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/etc/RobotoLisp.png