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Looking at the screenshots, to me the fonts with the stronger and more defined lines seem slightly better than others: - Go Mono - JetBrains Mono - Meslo
by KronisLV 4y ago
Looking at the screenshots, to me the fonts with the stronger and more defined lines seem slightly better than others:
- Go Mono
- JetBrains Mono
- MesloLGS NF
In comparison, there are some that are clearly harder to read:
- Iosevka Term
- Inconsolata Light
I actually commented on the fonts that I use (Liberation Mono for readability and PT Mono for stylistic preferences) a while ago, with my own example images, but I'll also agree with the statement that most modern fonts look a bit samey: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588312
However, I can't help but to wonder how exactly one would measure how light or heavy a font is, when compared against other fonts. Maybe some measurement of how much contrast there is to the edges of the strokes (e.g. the font doesn't appear blurry and is readable, given a certain quality of eyesight, at a particular size and distance), or just how much of the image is made up by dark tones, or how clear the strokes are?
Comparing the histograms seems borderline useless, for example, even between Go Mono and Inconsolata Light the differences are very slight: https://imgur.com/a/BWbzJzj https://imgur.com/a/BWbzJzj
- professoretc 4y ago> - Iosevka Term Iosevka comes with about a million different variations (and you can build custom variations by building the font from source). From the screenshot, it looks like the author was using the light weight; I almost always use medium. Similarly, if you don't like serifs, you can turn them off; I use the "hooky" variant which adds loopy tails to some letters.