_piud

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1. 31.▲
   by _piud 11mo ago

   i don't think that qualifies. because the alignment issue is about multi-line alignment of upward arrows. APL usage is clearly meant to be covered by some single Unicode glyph.
2. 32.▲
   by _piud 11mo ago

   Iosevka is a beautiful font indeed. the condensed look of Myna was inspired by Iosevka. i saw it once in a coding demo and decided to make it condensed. the predecessor of Myna (called Hera, available on my profile) was just a customised ve
3. 33.▲
   by _piud 11mo ago

   thanks for the feedback. almost all of the Latin extended and quite a reasonable subset of Unicode is covered. the word "naïve", for example, renders perfectly because the "i with diaeresis" is present in Myna. if you fi
4. 34.▲
   by _piud 11mo ago

   thanks for pointing it out. i would need to consider that idea. the symbols are all pure ASCII and are supposed to look normal. it is not a ligature font and neither focusses on Unicode symbols. the symbols are just more evenly adjusted wit
5. 35.▲
   by _piud 11mo ago

   thanks for pointing it out. as i mention below in a comment, there are bound to be many combinations which don't align (especially vertical ones). i would ideally tell you to invoke a feature request but i am not sure this esoteric com
6. 36.▲
   by _piud 11mo ago

   it is partially a matter of design and code philosophy. many like the simplicity of ASCII and consider ligatures distracting. but more than preference there is matter of availability and consistency. Unicode is not available for all possibl
7. 37.▲
   by _piud 11mo ago

   thanks for the feedback. about the braces please see another comment below. the issue of needlessly complicated braces has been raised quite a few times now. a variant could be considered if there is more interest. this particular font is q
8. 38.▲
   by _piud 11mo ago

   thanks for pointing it out. shouldn't be that confusing, i guess.
9. 39.▲
   by _piud 11mo ago

   i use this font basically everywhere and have become kinda blind to the defects. for me it looked best when glyphs are mostly centered (which makes them "genuinely monospace" if you catch my drift). but you raise a valid point. it
10. 40.▲
    by _piud 11mo ago

    if you try it please feel free to create an issue if you find some rendering bug in your system. i have tested and used it extensively on Linux but not Windows or MacOS as much as i should.
11. 41.▲
    by _piud 11mo ago

    surprisingly enough for me, the exact same point was raised by others too. meanwhile, i was totally unaware that many would find it hard to read it as i never ever had any difficulty telling them apart even with the (admittedly baroque) des
12. 42.▲
    by _piud 11mo ago

    i know the title can be a bit misleading but Myna is primarily ASCII. languages which insist on using full Unicode like APL and Agda have bigger problems (availability of uniform glyphs and inconsistency with monospace design) on their plat
13. 43.▲
    by _piud 11mo ago

    there are bounds to be many many operators and glyph combinations where things don't match properly. an example is the variable declaration and initialisation symbol in Go which combines colon and equal sign. if you use Myna and come a
14. 44.▲
    by _piud 11mo ago

    a few others have raised the same point. in my defense i can only say that i adore that particular style because it looks more like what i draw by hand.
15. 45.▲
    by _piud 11mo ago

    please check the illustrations below.
16. 46.▲
    by _piud 11mo ago

    i understand the point you raise. but i believe symbols are generally aligned as they are because most fonts are designed for text and many monospace fonts respect those typographic traditions. but i think code is not text and breaking some
17. 47.▲
    by _piud 11mo ago

    designer here. by symbol-heavy languages i mean languages like Perl and Haskell which make heavy use of symbols (sigils in Perl and operators in Haskell). Myna was designed after my frustration with other monospace fonts combined with my (s
18. 48.▲
    by _piud 11mo ago

    designer here. thanks for trying it out. i appreciate the feedback. i like the condensed look too but didn't really think about being able to see more code horizontally :)
19. 49.▲
    Show HN: Myna - monospace typeface for symbol-heavy programming languages(github.com)

    3 points by _piud 11mo ago|3 comments