brendan wrote: > As far as fonts go, I use Hack (Debian package fonts-hack) for > programming. Welp. There's a day I'll never get back! I can't believe you made me look closely at the fonts I've been using. Sheesh. :-)
I'd been using Monospace Regular for a long time, but because I'd chosen a Liberation font for something else on my desktop, I switched to Liberation Mono for my terminals, thinking they'd all look nice together. But after a few days, I decided something was wrong with it (it turns out the font is squashed vertically for some reason), and I remembered this mail thread, and went and installed the Hack font. I agree -- it's a nice font. I also found Fira Mono -- that's nice too. And while comparing, I realized that there were things that were really ugly about my old familiar Monospace Regular. So I couldn't go back. (The centerline of the hyphen and > and < symbols don't line up, so C pointers look really dumb! The horror!! :-) But both Hack and Fira also made some odd choices for a couple of characters each. The Hack percent sign (%) is horrible looking, and the 0 digit has this weird dark ellipse down the middle. OTOH, Fira gets those right, but the @ sign is truly weird, the lowercase 'g' is odd, and the "Regular" version is inexplicably wider than all the others in the family. So I just spent a bunch of not-so-quality time with fontforge, indulging what might be my mild OCD. :-) I fixed the 0 and the % to my satisfaction, and for now, I'm a happy camper. So thank you. I think! paul "Ooh! Maybe I should adjust the tail on that comma!" =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 42.7 degrees)
