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Not really a criticism and just an observation, but you can tell this page was written by a programmer because the section called "What does it look like?" is a
by adrianmonk 6y ago
Not really a criticism and just an observation, but you can tell this page was written by a programmer because the section called "What does it look like?" is about what the code looks like, not the font itself.
I realize the page's text is in the font, but often there's a sample that shows what all the common characters look like and in different variations (like regular and bold). Which is what I expected when I read that section title.
- mattherman 6y agoI think they were just using the source code as an example of the font since one of the most likely uses of this font is programming.
- pessimizer 6y agoMonospaced fonts are for programmers.
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoWho haven’t experimented with proportional fonts for coding yet.
- _benj 6y agowould you mind expanding on this?
- scentoni 6y agohttps://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoYou don’t even need those these days as most format guidelines (Eg at Google) disallow ascii art.
- flobosg 6y agoUnless that programmer is Rob Pike. (See the acme editor: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Acme.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Acme.png)
- tombert 6y agoI mean, if I'm looking for a monospace font, I'm probably either in a terminal or writing some code. If I'm trying to create a beautiful document, I'll probably use some variably-spaced thing inside LaTeX or something. I think showing me a big sample of code is genuinely the most useful way for me to get a "feel" for how the font is going to perform.