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Hard to discriminate between captial letter "O" and number "0". Not that good for actual coding IMO. P.S.: This world really does NOT need any more look-good-o

• alpha_squared 7y ago
  If you use the "mono" slider, it adds the angled line inside zero for differentiation while monospacing the characters. Presumably, you'd want monospace characters for programming, so I think that's fair. Your criticism is true for non-monospacing, though I think any fonts suffer from that.
  • dragonwriter 7y ago
    There are lots of proportional fonts that have easily distinguished 0 vs. O (usually, zero is thinner, though often some of the distinctions used in monospaced fonts are also used in addition to shape differentiation.)
  • dspillett 7y ago
    There are people out there who code in variable spaced fonts. Not sure how they can myself but some report feeling more productive that way, and for them this could be more of a consideration.
    • cjbprime 7y ago
      I just started doing this last week! Using Iosevka Aile.
• lucideer 7y ago
  > P.S.: This world really does NOT need any more look-good-only-under-Chrome websites. FF user here, haven't tried Chrome so I guess I dunno what I'm missing. Site looks nice afaict. What's the issue?
  • yardshop 7y ago
    A lot of the text animation on that site does not seem to work in Firefox. The three-D cube of letters on top is supposed to be in a range of weights and styles. On Firefox they are all the same. You can still drag the cube around with the mouse but the characters don't change as they do in Chrome. The font selection drop downs change the font in many of the features on the page, but this doesn't work on Firefox either. I'm trying it the latest developer version. There are a lot of sliders and pointer-dragging features that immediately change the text characteristics but none of this cool stuff works on Firefox. At the bottom it says "Made by friends of Google Fonts", maybe that's an indication of their browser alignment.
    • pygy_ 7y ago
      The page actually works perfectly here in Firefox (v70 and v68esr through Tor, on a retina Mac). The animation is actually smoother in v68, which is surprising given that IIRC v70 is supposed to make better use of hardware acceleration. The drop down works fine too.
    • helb 7y ago
      Everything you mentioned works for me in Firefox 70.0.1 (regular release, not developer version).
    • mceachen 7y ago
      I'm on Firefox on Android 9. The cube and all font weights and styles rendered as expected. Kudos to the FF team!
  • airstrike 7y ago
    Try playing with the $ tool
• leadingthenet 7y ago
  > P.S.: This world really does NOT need any more look-good-only-under-Chrome websites. Incredibly, the site actually performs better for me in Safari and Firefox, than it does in Chrome. It's easier to drag the box at the top in the first two, but it's supremely laggy in Chrome.
• iamvik 7y ago
  When in monospace the 0 gets a line through it. I tried in in ff and the site worked perfectly.