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I'm more of a bitmap font guy (at least, as long as my eyes continue to forgive me for it) but I'm always interested to see what other fonts there are around. I
by cyphar 4mo ago
I'm more of a bitmap font guy (at least, as long as my eyes continue to forgive me for it) but I'm always interested to see what other fonts there are around. It does look quite nice.
I must admit when I ran across the second real paragraph from the main page, I couldn't help but only think more and more about how we will look back on marketing copy like this in a decade from now:
AI assistants produce both code and prose. MonoLisa Text renders long-form explanations with optimal readability, while MonoLisa Code keeps your code crystal clear. The perfect pairing for the AI era. (Under the title "A perfect pairing for the AI era.")
Ignoring the deep pit of sadness I felt when thinking about the incredibly long (and revolutionary) history of typefaces that led us to today for just a moment, I'm honestly curious how effective this marketing is. How many people would assume a font would be suitable for general text but not LLM-generated text and would need to be dissuaded from that notion? I wonder if someone has started selling keyboards that are "perfect for prompting" (but I'm too scared to look at this stage).
- a96 4mo agoI think a lot of people might be excited by a typeface or other text system that would highlight tells of LLM "tainted" text.
- applfanboysbgon 3mo ago> I wonder if someone has started selling keyboards that are "perfect for prompting" I don't know about such marketing copy, but keyboards with a "CoPilot key" are now standard, particularly on all Windows laptops, which is an even more egregious form of marketing.
- neonstatic 3mo agoThe "Windows laptop special key" is a bit of a meme. Microsoft keeps changing it every few years to the new hot thing and it never catches on. It feels like "we have Command key at home".
- applfanboysbgon 3mo agoI have never seen a Windows laptop with the right ctrl key, or any normal key, replaced by a special key before CoPilot. I have six Windows laptops spread over 20 years and all of them before my most recent one have normal keys.
- jcheng 3mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key is all I can think of, but that was introduced in 1994...
- neonstatic 3mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_key
- ninjalanternshk 3mo agoJust imagine how much an authentic keyboard with a Clippy icon would fetch, to the right buyer that is.
- pdpi 3mo agoCmd and Ctrl being separate keys is legitimately one of the things that keeps me on macOS.
- conception 3mo agoCmd and ctl are separate on Windows as well. Option is the Windows key.
- kristianp 3mo agoI've taken recently to running bitmap Terminus (not the ttf) in my terminals. I find the lack of blurred edges to be extremely refreshing. My laptop has a pixel density of about 162 ppi, so normal fonts, especially in chrome on linux don't make me happy. Do you recommend any specific bitmap coding fonts?
- Chu4eeno 3mo agoUnless you're stuck on an annoying platform you could try adjusting the hinting. Contrary to Apple's insistence, hidpi doesn't mean blurring the edges of fonts is okay.
- cyphar 3mo agoI use Cozette[1] at the moment, which is basically a modern form of Dina (the first bitmap font I started with ~15 years ago now). It is pretty nice, though they recently started adding some kanji and I don't particularly like the style they went with (maybe I should send a PR to support more and fix up the existing styles)... [1]: https://github.com/the-moonwitch/Cozette https://github.com/the-moonwitch/Cozette
- mmgutz 3mo agoTamzen