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Following æsthetic at the cost of function is a complaint I’d make of Fira Code, not JetBrains Mono (disregarding ligatures, which both overdo): Fira Code’s r g

Following æsthetic at the cost of function is a complaint I’d make of Fira Code, not JetBrains Mono (disregarding ligatures, which both overdo): Fira Code’s r glyph is lousy, its & poor for code where immediately followed sans whitespace by letters (common for reference syntax in C-family languages; it’s much too similar to a letter, especially given the high ex height), and its ff ligation (two columns → one) downright idiotic.

minimaxir 5y ago
Fair. At the least, some of those examples have variants that can be manually enabled: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/extras/character_variants.png https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/extras/charac...
- chrismorgan 5y ago
  Actually, I must amend what I said: I was talking about Fira Mono rather than Fira Code. Fira Code fixes the r glyph (its default r glyph is excellent and its alternative perfectly respectable, still having narrowed the base line), and offers a better ampersand as an alternative. Dunno about the f ligations (ﬀ, ﬁ, &c.), hopefully they ditched that madness (even if they’re opt-in discretionary ligatures in Fira Mono—they just have absolutely no place in a monospaced font, dlig or no dlig).
  - chrismorgan 5y ago
    It seems like I might have to make another amendment as I just came across something labelled Fira Mono that also seems to have the fixed r glyph. I’m throwing in the towel, there are too many things called Fira Mono and Fira Code and I can’t find any one sound canonical source; some seem to say there are a bunch of changes between the two, others seem to say it’s only a different line-height; did they perhaps start out more different but get mostly merged back? I give up. All I know is that places like bugzilla.mozilla.org and crates.io use bad versions of some Fira monospace font.

minimaxir 5y ago

Fair. At the least, some of those examples have variants that can be manually enabled: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/extras/character_variants.png https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/extras/charac...

chrismorgan 5y ago
Actually, I must amend what I said: I was talking about Fira Mono rather than Fira Code. Fira Code fixes the r glyph (its default r glyph is excellent and its alternative perfectly respectable, still having narrowed the base line), and offers a better ampersand as an alternative. Dunno about the f ligations (ﬀ, ﬁ, &c.), hopefully they ditched that madness (even if they’re opt-in discretionary ligatures in Fira Mono—they just have absolutely no place in a monospaced font, dlig or no dlig).
- chrismorgan 5y ago
  It seems like I might have to make another amendment as I just came across something labelled Fira Mono that also seems to have the fixed r glyph. I’m throwing in the towel, there are too many things called Fira Mono and Fira Code and I can’t find any one sound canonical source; some seem to say there are a bunch of changes between the two, others seem to say it’s only a different line-height; did they perhaps start out more different but get mostly merged back? I give up. All I know is that places like bugzilla.mozilla.org and crates.io use bad versions of some Fira monospace font.