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Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code (monaspace.githubnext.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone who makes a font where I l and | are not immediately distinguishable should be barred from working in the industry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I hate Arial as much as a person could possibly hate a font for this exact reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately this new font family still struggles with the l1 issue,in all but the last two typefaces. There's a lot of good ideas here, and the Krypton version isn't too bad, but I still struggle to see why they haven't figured out that gaping issue on most of the styles here.