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> A programming font with cursive italics and ligatures is the worst idea in the world. This is absolutely horrible. BTW, I am really angry. I'm not angry, but

by dvt 7y ago

> A programming font with cursive italics and ligatures is the worst idea in the world. This is absolutely horrible. BTW, I am really angry. I'm not angry, but I'm pretty sure it's objectively a bad idea. Provably, it's more difficult to read cursive fonts than, say, sans-serif monospace fonts. Not to mention that the argument that "people like different things" is just not very good. It's simply a bad design choice. Cool project, and the monospace as well as ligatures are awesome, but the cursive italics are most definitely a bust. For context, I've used Fira Code[1] for the past few years and I'm quite happy with it. Author's claim that there aren't any free clean programming fonts is also a bit bizarre; we see free fonts released all the time. [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

jjeaff 7y ago
First of all, readability of something is going to vary person to person. Studies may have found the averages skew toward less readable, but I doubt that applies to 100% of the population. Once you are used to it, it will hardly make a difference. Secondly, it's only objectively bad in your contrived scenario where the only thing taken into account is readability. I have been using a cursive font for terms like "public function" and other oft repeated phrases. The stark difference allows me to more quickly skip over them. I don't need to 'read' them. But my main reason is I just like the style. I stare at code all day long. I want to make it a bit stylistic and fun. Lots of people also have backgrounds on their desktop, but a solid black background would probably be less distracting and make finding icons easier. I also wash and polish my car on occasion, even though leaving it dirty would not affect it's primary purpose, to carry me from point a to point b.

by dvt 7y ago

jjeaff 7y ago

First of all, readability of something is going to vary person to person. Studies may have found the averages skew toward less readable, but I doubt that applies to 100% of the population. Once you are used to it, it will hardly make a difference. Secondly, it's only objectively bad in your contrived scenario where the only thing taken into account is readability. I have been using a cursive font for terms like "public function" and other oft repeated phrases. The stark difference allows me to more quickly skip over them. I don't need to 'read' them. But my main reason is I just like the style. I stare at code all day long. I want to make it a bit stylistic and fun. Lots of people also have backgrounds on their desktop, but a solid black background would probably be less distracting and make finding icons easier. I also wash and polish my car on occasion, even though leaving it dirty would not affect it's primary purpose, to carry me from point a to point b.