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I do like these fonts, but DJR had this idea with the (excellent) Input family of fonts years ago: https://input.djr.com/ https://input.djr.com/ A bit weird t

I do like these fonts, but DJR had this idea with the (excellent) Input family of fonts years ago: https://input.djr.com/ https://input.djr.com/ A bit weird to not mention that. Unfortunately until editors start supporting this (and I’m not sure what would motivate them to), these remain great ideas only.

sheiyei 6mo ago
Input's method seems to be fundamentally very different to this. Monaspace keeps the grid intact and only changes the characters visually (situationally overlaps wide letters to neighbouring narrow characters' spaces). Input just pretends to be monospace in its aesthetics, I don't really understand what's supposed to be special with that.
- endunless 6mo ago
  Fair points on the technical implementation. I more meant the idea of using different fonts in the same buffer to represent different kinds of text.
actionfromafar 6mo ago
Which editors?
- endunless 6mo ago
  Given GitHub is owned by Microsoft, I think VS Code supporting mixing fonts in a buffer would be a good start!
  - alwillis 6mo ago
    Yes, I configured VS Code to use Monaspace a while ago.
asibahi 6mo ago
Input is a proportional font. Monaspace is a monospace font that uses contextual alternatives: it changes how letters look depending on surrounding letters. They are nothing alike in their approach to this problem. (Also this is a marketing piece. Contextual alternatives is not a new tech.)
- naikrovek 6mo ago
  > Input is a proportional font. it is also a monospaced font
  - asibahi 6mo ago
    Yes there is a version of Input that is a monospaced font and doesn't solve the problem tackled by Monaspace and the proportional version of Input and is therefore as relevant to this discussion as .. I dunno .. Courier New.
    - naikrovek 6mo ago
      I’m not sure why you think this conversation is about the proportional variant.
pfortuny 6mo ago
Honest question: does emacs (GUI) not support this?
- ramblurr 6mo ago
  Emacs totally supports this! Mixing monosoace and proportional fonts can be a little strange, but there are some 3rd party packages or guides (prot has one iirc) to workaround it.

sheiyei 6mo ago

Input's method seems to be fundamentally very different to this. Monaspace keeps the grid intact and only changes the characters visually (situationally overlaps wide letters to neighbouring narrow characters' spaces). Input just pretends to be monospace in its aesthetics, I don't really understand what's supposed to be special with that.

endunless 6mo ago
Fair points on the technical implementation. I more meant the idea of using different fonts in the same buffer to represent different kinds of text.

actionfromafar 6mo ago

Which editors?

endunless 6mo ago
Given GitHub is owned by Microsoft, I think VS Code supporting mixing fonts in a buffer would be a good start!
- alwillis 6mo ago
  Yes, I configured VS Code to use Monaspace a while ago.

asibahi 6mo ago

Input is a proportional font. Monaspace is a monospace font that uses contextual alternatives: it changes how letters look depending on surrounding letters. They are nothing alike in their approach to this problem. (Also this is a marketing piece. Contextual alternatives is not a new tech.)

naikrovek 6mo ago
> Input is a proportional font. it is also a monospaced font
- asibahi 6mo ago
  Yes there is a version of Input that is a monospaced font and doesn't solve the problem tackled by Monaspace and the proportional version of Input and is therefore as relevant to this discussion as .. I dunno .. Courier New.
  - naikrovek 6mo ago
    I’m not sure why you think this conversation is about the proportional variant.

pfortuny 6mo ago

Honest question: does emacs (GUI) not support this?

ramblurr 6mo ago
Emacs totally supports this! Mixing monosoace and proportional fonts can be a little strange, but there are some 3rd party packages or guides (prot has one iirc) to workaround it.