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People actually change fonts in their IDE? I've always used whatever the default is and never even thought about it.

Calling it now, Radon will become the new Comic Sans.

That was interesting how they adjusted sizes based on adjacent letters. Good idea

Too bad I'm married to JetBrains Mono.

sorry i already have comic shanns for that

https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono

I like Hack as my font of choice, but I will probably give this a shot. It's a font, there is no risk of data collection, Microsoft style bugs, or other Microsoft-associated product issues.

They really look nice. A good font makes a huge difference.

Having different font styles depending on the context is a really nice feature. I'll definitely give it a try.

Very interesting technique to get the widths of the glyphs uniform without them looking ugly in most cases. OK, one can make it look bad if you know the "pain points" of the system, but in normal flowing texts, the fonts do look good.

Looks lovely! The art of fonts is something I will never understand but always appreciate. This website is also brilliant in showing everything dynamically and explaining why it all matters. Safe to say Github will start using it everywhere? It's also open source, which is nice (and makes sense considering what Github is striving for).

Edit: Not 100% sure on texture healing though. Toggling it on and off in the example makes me feel like texture healing makes everything look weirder. It makes the font look less monospace which should be good, but it just messes with my mind when some letters look slightly different in different contexts. Like the spacing is not immediately obvious to me and having the same letters look different is throwing my mind in a loop. I guess I'll need to try it to see if it's comfortable.

Really confusing name for new users, considering we have monotype fonts... Guess we should be happy they didn't name it monatype...

That Krypton font do looking nice

I didn't think I had strong opinions on fonts.

Turns out I viscerally despise "handwriting" fonts. They're harder to read. It just makes me recoil.

I also intensely dislike "ligatures " that turn like == into a separate glyph. Or the one that turns >= into the > with the line under it. No. Stop. That's not what I typed. That's not what I'm looking for when I scan the text.

Side note: I assume someone is feeling clever and is thinking of replying with a handwriting font message with ligatures. You don't have to. I already imagined it.

The texture healing seems cool though, but I didn't immediately notice or understand until I read through the detailed section on it.

I'm a simple man, I just use DejaVu Sans Mono without any ligatures or other fancy stuff.

Works everywhere.

This "texture healing" seems to be based on commit mono's smart kerning https://commitmono.com/ although it only shifts letters around, it doesn't change the characters.

At least 1Il & 0O are different and (mostly) easily distinguishable in all the variants. Only exception is in the Argon variant 1 and l are too similar IMO.

Will they replace Consolas in Windows with this one or is it a GitHub-only-thing? In Consolas the characters 1 and l look very similar, making the font unsuitable for coding and terminal use, so it would be good if they replaced it with something else.

I want to make a joke about how terrible the name is with just throwing in an 'a', but I don't think it would be right since I'm using Fira Code.

No support for this yet in VSCode it seems.

cool. i will still use fira code, but it may be a nicer default alternative to courier new

I mean, they look nice, but I don't dislike whatever the default font that I use is, and I'm definitely not going to go out of my way to change a font. As long as it's legible, I don't really give two shits what the font is.

Iosevka offers too much customization to leave it—especially removing ligature abuse.

Cascading Code failed to impress me, although I'll give this one a try, I doubt it's better than Consolas.

Would this work in vs code only?

I can't shake this feeling that these are lacking something, like I remember looking at Fira for the first time and being like wow, even jetbrains mono had a sort of generic charm. These on the other hand, are just meh.

Maybe they are someone's cup of tea though. I am sure in 6 months I will be hearing about how GitHub invented the developer font of some rubbish like that.

Another one? Why didn’t they contribute fixes to an existing font family? 🙄

Neon looks good. The rest are awful.

Terminus is still my favorite monospaced font followed by Roboto Mono, so ignore me.

I personally use JetBrainsMono, it's my favourite. What do you guys think?

cool. ive wanted a monospaced times-alike like their Xenon here.