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

submitted 1 year ago by GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Even the textual healing? That seems to require a dynamic process that analyses the text, no?

Or are fonts capable of that?

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Contextual alternates are normally used for certain scripts, like Arabic, where the shape of each glyph depends on the surrounding glyphs. And they are also used for cursive handwriting fonts where the stroke of the “pen” might have different connection points across letters. Texture healing is a novel application of this technology to code.

basically fonts were already capable of using alternate versions of characters based on their nearby characters, so they used that for these fonts to allow for seemingly-dynamic sizing/spacing

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I was actually gonna ask about this point, thanks for the context.

[–] doc@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Open type fonts have these capabilities built in. It's up to the designer to implement it in useful ways like this.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

It’s in the article:

This swapping is powered by an OpenType feature called “contextual alternates,” which is widely supported by both operating systems and browser engines.