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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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[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I personally like Argon a lot.

Radon kinda looks like a fancy Comic Sans

[–] tigerhawkvok@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I'm all about MonoLisa, but I'll give this a look

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

More fonts is nice, I'll give it a try

[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Looks really good, but I'll stick with my favourite M+ Code, which I use in iTerm2, Emacs, and VSCode.

https://www.programmingfonts.org/#mplus

Also in https://www.nerdfonts.com/

Edited to add: they have semiwide and wide, but no condensed? Weird. That contextual resizing is pretty cool though!

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One superfamily.

Five fonts.

And my three variable axes.

[–] outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Great, now whenever I want to talk to someone about Mona Font, they're going to get confused.

[–] dr_catman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Iosevka for life, baby.

[–] fiveoar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago

This is pretty cool. But I'll stick with Anonymous pro.

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