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> I can't stand the cursive text in the Sublime Text and vscode themes I'm pretty sure that's just the typeface used in screenshots. I use Berkeley Mono in Sub

> I can't stand the cursive text in the Sublime Text and vscode themes I'm pretty sure that's just the typeface used in screenshots. I use Berkeley Mono in Sublime Text. No cursive to be found.

benatkin 2y ago
It could be "font-style": "italic" https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/color_schemes.html#example https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/color_schemes.html#example It may skip over it if the font doesn't have an italic variant.
- giraffe_lady 2y ago
  Until recently most fonts just used an oblique version of the main font as their italic. With the assumption that if someone wanted a "true italic" they'd use another font specifically for that. Italic and roman traditionally being two completely different fonts, not really one a variant of the other. Now "true italic" is becoming common again and it often has that cursive look you don't like.
  - benatkin 2y ago
    The complete uniformity combined with the connectedness of letters feels odd to me. I guess I have an association with connected letters and handwriting. However I'm not sure I want oblique attribute names either, nor bold keywords. I seem to just want colors and nothing else. And I have dabbled in going free of highlighting, Rob Pike-style. https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3BHV6QFfIJ https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...
    - giraffe_lady 2y ago
      Yeah it's valid. I have some cognitive limitations that makes it hard to attach meaning to colors so they are mostly distracting for me. So I've gone almost completely in the other way, my theme (based on nano-emacs) uses only one color plus black and grey. It uses typographic distinctions like font weight and style instead. It feels like the last few years there's been some interest in this as an underexplored channel for information in code editors, so (unfortunately for you and good for me) I'd expect to see even more of it in the future. https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs
      - benatkin 2y ago
        I might like bold but only if the colors are dialed down. I have never really given mixing in cursive fonts a chance, so maybe I should try it (don't knock it before you try it).

> I can't stand the cursive text in the Sublime Text and vscode themes I'm pretty sure that's just the typeface used in screenshots. I use Berkeley Mono in Sublime Text. No cursive to be found.

benatkin 2y ago

It could be "font-style": "italic" https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/color_schemes.html#example https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/color_schemes.html#example It may skip over it if the font doesn't have an italic variant.

giraffe_lady 2y ago
Until recently most fonts just used an oblique version of the main font as their italic. With the assumption that if someone wanted a "true italic" they'd use another font specifically for that. Italic and roman traditionally being two completely different fonts, not really one a variant of the other. Now "true italic" is becoming common again and it often has that cursive look you don't like.
- benatkin 2y ago
  The complete uniformity combined with the connectedness of letters feels odd to me. I guess I have an association with connected letters and handwriting. However I'm not sure I want oblique attribute names either, nor bold keywords. I seem to just want colors and nothing else. And I have dabbled in going free of highlighting, Rob Pike-style. https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3BHV6QFfIJ https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...
  - giraffe_lady 2y ago
    Yeah it's valid. I have some cognitive limitations that makes it hard to attach meaning to colors so they are mostly distracting for me. So I've gone almost completely in the other way, my theme (based on nano-emacs) uses only one color plus black and grey. It uses typographic distinctions like font weight and style instead. It feels like the last few years there's been some interest in this as an underexplored channel for information in code editors, so (unfortunately for you and good for me) I'd expect to see even more of it in the future. https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs
    - benatkin 2y ago
      I might like bold but only if the colors are dialed down. I have never really given mixing in cursive fonts a chance, so maybe I should try it (don't knock it before you try it).