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Man I really have a vicerally negative reaction to this font.

1) The braces are completely horrible

2) What kind of person thinks that making the fullstop massive and putting it in the middle of the line like a dot product sign is good?

3) Where even is the backtick?

4) For all their talk of legibility, lowercase l and 1 are very similar looking to my eyes.




You should install the font and check it out. 2 - what you see in screenshot is not period, 3 - backtick exists, not in that screenshot, 4 - lowercase l is curved and totally different from 1


Zero interest in trying it out, especially now that someone has pointed out that the - and + are not vertically aligned. I cannot unsee that. In any case it just looks way worse than my lovely Berkely Mono. For the braces and the shape of the 6 alone I couldn't possibly use such a font.


> 2) What kind of person thinks that making the fullstop massive and putting it in the middle of the line like a dot product sign is good?

A lawyer.

Scanning dense legalese and/or contract language becomes quite a bit easier if you have an easy visual cue where the current (tortured) sentence will end. It provides a decent estimate for the upper bound for how much context and/or state you need to keep in your head to process a given statement.

I get to review technical and security parts of contracts at work and can see the value for such a font in that particular case.


Also the plus is positioned higher than the hyphen-minus. Vertically center-aligned operators (+-<:=>) are a must for coding, in my opinion.


Totally agree.


> Where even is the backtick?

Not just that, why is the backtick unconditionally combining with the previous letter? If you type "a`" it will always print "à" for me, even combining with letters like "t", seems like a ligature table bug or something. Just randomly saw that when looking at a markdown file


Some other things that irk me a little with that font :

The "@" looks thinner than the other chars.

The "%" has its fraction slash cut in 2 non aligned non rectilinear parts (and not coherent with their "‰" and "‱").

(Also, the "€" looks weird to me, maybe because the horizontal lines are of the same length ? But that's probably less important in a coding context)


I'm going to add that the lowercase vwxyz are very hard to distinguish from their uppercase variants. Total fail.




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