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It looks like this has the largest x-height of any typeface meant for developers (larger than even Fira Code). While there is research suggesting a large x-hei
by AlanYx 7y ago
It looks like this has the largest x-height of any typeface meant for developers (larger than even Fira Code).
While there is research suggesting a large x-height increases readability, I'm wondering whether this doesn't push the x-height just a little too far. CamelCase words no longer stand out visually very easily -- I'm not sure how I feel about that.
- jaywalk 7y agoI do find it fairly hard to read. The letters are also too wide in my opinion.
- raihansaputra 7y agoInteresting point. Currently trying it out, and the x-height thing matters, similar to another feedback in this thread that says words become disjointed glyphs instead of a "shape". I'll keep this for the moment. Looks much cleaner than Fira Code, but will have to see on the readability side. Another point: not only they have increased the x-height, they also reduced the descender-height (for j,q,p,y) by a lot. I have trouble with function definitions such as post/put/patch or even keywords as response/reject.
- raihansaputra 7y agoIf any of you are keeping score or reading through this now, I currently use Input as my main font [0]. Non-monospace is certainly unorthodox, but they do have monospace fonts anyway (and I have to use it with the vscode internal terminal). Input plays much better with lower dpi (90-112) screens with small font sizes (12px font size with -1 zoom on vscode). It looks good too on my Retina screen. [0]: https://input.fontbureau.com/info/ https://input.fontbureau.com/info/
- crazypython 7y agoMenlo has a similar size.