thundernixon

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by thundernixon 6y ago
https://www.recursive.design/
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by thundernixon 6y ago
It’s more the case that the weight axis is common, and commonly understood, so the Google Fonts front end just leaves out any axis that isn’t Weight or Italic, I guess as a “UX” consideration. It’s unfortunate. The good news is, the Google
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by thundernixon 6y ago
This is one really good serif variable font: http://www.gt-alpina.com/ Different variable fonts use different variable “axes” – choosing what parameters can/should be variable is just another design decision in making
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Can you perhaps say more about what you dislike about the lowercase “m”? It has to be extremely condensed to fit into a fixed-width space, just the same as any other monospaced font for code.
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Thanks for checking out the font. As the main maker of it, I would love for it to include Cyrillic & Greek characters (and Arabic & Thai & more...), but this font’s variable axes mean that it is veeery slow to draw additional ch
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Small type can lose definition on screen just as much as in print, so “inktraps” are really just there to help make things more crisp in text. Of course, they are there just as much for aesthetics if the type is used at large sizes.
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by thundernixon 6y ago
A beloved classic. Thanks for trying it out, and thanks for the kind words!
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Thanks, it has been a fun project to work on, and you are correct about variable fonts offering more range in fewer bytes! Another thing worth considering in a “page bloat” debate is that while a very extensive variable font is maybe 300 kb
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by thundernixon 6y ago
The font is under the OFL license, and you can definitely host it on your own server, no connection to Google required.
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Ha, yeah, that is a Google Fonts UI bug, and I’ve sent a message to folks over there about it. The font has math symbols that render well. :-) Please check out the font and try the preview/tester at: https://www.recursive.de
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Haha, well spotted. Yeah, it seems to maybe be an issue of how Google Fonts sends preview text to the URL, and the “+” conflicts with the general separator. I’ve sent a message to the folks over there, and hopefully they will put it in thei
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Can I ask what software you ran into that issue with? Probably, it was a strict-monospace environment, like vim in a terminal. I have created code-specific fonts to deal with this issue: there are fonts made specifically for code which have
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by thundernixon 6y ago
There is a stylistic set which allows you to get an unambiguous 1 vs l (ss05). See: https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive#opentype-features Also, there are fonts made specifically for code which have code ligatures &a
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Yeah, we tried to pack maybe a few too many fun features into the minisite, so it is unfortunately a bit more laggy than ideal. Thanks for checking it out, though!
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Strange, usually if a font is rendered with that issue, it would be in several other letters, as well. That is often from the font renderer using an “even-odd rule” in vector rendering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Nope, you are not the only one! That is an issue of the font renderer using an “even-odd rule” in vector rendering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even%E2%80%93odd_rule What is your OS & OS version? This has general
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by thundernixon 6y ago
Thank you for saying more, chrisdalke! I actually tried to post the font’s website, but because it was already posted last year, hacker news wouldn’t allow me to submit the link again.
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Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts(fonts.google.com)
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by thundernixon 6y ago
You can also learn more about Recursive & configure advanced Google Fonts API calls on the Recursive minisite: https://www.recursive.design/