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Another font that has a similar aim is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible I find that it st
by zoidb 3y ago
Another font that has a similar aim is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible I find that it strikes a balance between aesthetics and legibility. Two differences I noticed immediately are the 0 and I characters which are much more difficult to distinguish with this font.
- nazka 3y agoThanks you for sharing, it's very interesting.
- jna_sh 3y agoHuge endorsement for Atkinson Hyperlegible from me. As someone with horrible and declining eyesight in multiple ways, it has improved my computing experience a lot. There’s been a couple of attempts at making a monospace version, I currently use the one by Edward Shin in my editors and terminal https://github.com/Hylian/atkinson-monolegible https://github.com/Hylian/atkinson-monolegible
- tangwwwei 3y agothanks for sharing this monospace version, i've been using atkinson as my browser's sans-serif font
- warrenm 3y agoThat font does look really nice! Also noticed the slash in the 0 runs top left to bottom right, rather than the far-more-common [in my experience] top right to bottom left Any idea why that decision was made?
- hnbad 3y agoAn obvious explanation would be that this helps distinguish it from øØ (as in Danish and Norwegian), which is slashed from bottom left to top right. The Wikipedia article does demonstrate its legibility when blurred.
- dylan604 3y ago> which is slashed from bottom left to top right interesting way to describe this in that it is described in reverse order of how i've always seen it. my first thought is that's because it is also opposite of how i would draw it when writing by hand.
- warrenm 3y agoyeah ... I thought about "top right to bottom left" because then you are comparing top to top instead, i kept it left to left :)
- hnbad 3y agoI honestly don't know the stroke order Scandinavian kids are taught when learning an alphabet that contains the letter. I also don't know if it's consistent across languages. Most strokes that start from a lifted position move from left to right (e.g. the crossbar of the lowercase t) and European languages are written left to right, so describing it as left-to-right seems more intuitive to me.
- bhtru 3y agoDo you know of other fonts with the same goal as Atkinson Hyperlegible? It's gorgeous.
- nabla9 3y agoThank you. I have been trying to find this font again but I didn't remember it's name. I had it maybe a year installed in my previous computer and I loved it. Really good for coding.
- dimal 3y agoThis looks much better than B612. B612 just looks... awkward. It has these weird little cut-out areas at the intersections of some of the lines. I don't get it. Makes it looks like it's awkwardly pasted together from disparate pieces.
- Pinus 3y agoThose cut-outs look a bit like ink traps, though whether that actually makes any sense in a font unlikely to be used with actual ink, I do not know...
- dylan604 3y ago"Atkinson Hyperlegible is a freely available typeface built around a grotesque sans-serif core,..." So obviously my understanding of the definition of grotesque is not what's meant as its use in relation to fonts, but the definition in a font's use is just odd on why it is used in this manner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotesque_(Stephenson_Blake_typefaces) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotesque_(Stephenson_Blake_ty...
- evertedsphere 3y agoIf you click through to the next page: According to Monotype, the term "grotesque" originates from Italian: grottesco, meaning "belonging to the cave" due to their simple geometric appearance.[14] The term arose because of adverse comparisons that were drawn with the more ornate Modern Serif and Roman typefaces that were the norm at the time.