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SUSE just open-sourced a typeface :)

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      31·
      2 months ago

      I don’t think this font was designed for the terminal. It’s a sans font with some inspiration from monospace styling, but with focus of brand recognition and usage in headlines or text. That’s what I’m getting here. Similar to what Ubuntu does with their font.

  • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
    291·
    2 months ago

    Not a fan of semi-serif fonts, and not digging the rounded “corners” on E and L (while having sharp ones in lowercase L and lowercase i), but it seems it is trying to be highly readable so indeed it should be great for UI stuff. And doing a complete typeface covering such huge character map is no easy job.

  • aksdb@lemmy.world
    242·
    2 months ago

    I don’t understand how that hybrid is supposed to work. Monospace is a binary attribute; either all chars have the same width or not. So what is the font now?

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
      25·
      2 months ago

      It says that it s “inspired” by monospaced fonts. I imagine they mean stuff like the tiny serif on the lowercase i

    • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      2 months ago

      That’s a great question, on the face of it I can’t find very much info online. Wikipedia has an entry for monotype but not hybrid. The page ‘hybrid font’ does not exist. If anyone has more info please feel free to tag me, I’d love to know.

  • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
    191·
    2 months ago

    I need more discussion on typefaces. Typography is one of my hyperfixations. :-)

    P.S.: I meant “special interests”, not hyperfixations.

  • Fliegenpilzgünni@slrpnk.net
    13·
    2 months ago

    I will give the font a try!

    I’m not dyslexic, but I think legibility is super important and underrated on most distros. This one looks both aesthetic and very readable.

    Do you know if it is already in the Fedora repos? If not, how can I install it?

    • accideath@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 months ago

      That’s fairly standard for serif fonts like times new roman, baskerville, etc. Although it is uncommon in modern sans serif fonts and/or fonts designed to be viewed on a screen.

        • accideath@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          Here in Germany at least, if you read almost any printed novel, the type face will include this type of g. It’s so common, that I didn’t realise it’d be strange for some people.

          (Although I do recall seeing a post about a kid that was confused by that weird letter, somewhere a while ago. Probably was still back on r*****)

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’m not a fan of the way the lowercase L’s tail interacts with uppercase letters, but other than that it’s not bad!

    • Botzo@lemmy.world
      64·
      2 months ago

      The “fi” combination also seems problematic since they seem to intersect.

        • Botzo@lemmy.world
          71·
          2 months ago

          To me, that’s even worse. Ligatures that have 0 separation where it’s expected short circuit my reading comprehension.

          • Hnery@feddit.org
            8·
            2 months ago

            You can turn them off with every font. But you’ll be surprised by how much they can improve readability, because they remove optical irritation as shown here.

            • Botzo@lemmy.world
              45·
              2 months ago

              So what I see there is that badly designed fonts require ligatures to correct interactions.

              Like, I get that there are some neat ones, e.g. I have them turned on when writing code for symbols, but they seem wholly unnecessary and distracting in alphabetical characters.

              But I’m also the kind of weirdo that thinks the world needs more monospace fonts.

              /shrug

              • toastal@lemmy.ml
                5·
                2 months ago

                It is the exact opposite. Ligatures were created to help deal with the lack of clarity when symbols overlap. fi, ff, fl, ffi, have historically (like print press historical) been common ligatures where others are stylistic, where others are downright questionable & make things harder to read. The first category should almost always be supported, & the others can usually be disabled if not commonly off by default where you opt in for some design, not for general body copy.

                What you are referring to about ‘programming ligatures’ is an outright abuse of open type features full of false positives, ambiguities, & lack of clarity for outsiders to understand what your code means. What you want is Unicode supported in your language so you can precisely what you mean than using ASCII abominations—like meaning → but typing ->, dash + greater, than which isn’t at all what you mean which is a rightward arrow. (with a non-exhaustive languages with decent Unicode support: Raku, Julia, Agda, PureScript, Haskell with Unicode pragma, & all APL dialects).

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
    4·
    2 months ago

    But does it have unicode emojis?

    😀 😁 😂 😃 😄 😅 😆 😇 😈 🕧 🕯️ 🕰️ 🕳️ 🕴️ 🕵️ 🕶️ 🕷️ 🕸️ 🕹️ 🕺 🖇️ 🖊️ 🖋️ 🖌️ 🖍️ 🖐️ 🖕 🖖 🖤 🖥️ 🖨️ 🖱️ 🖲️ 🖼️ 🗂️ 🗃️ 🗄️ 🗑️ 🗒️ 🗓️ 🗜️ 🗝️ 🗞️ 🗡️ 🗣️ 🗨️ 🗯️ 🗳️ 🗺️ 🗻 🗼 🗽 🗾 🗿

    Hmm it specifically seems to be missing emojis

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 months ago

    I don’t love it, but I also went in hoping for a possible new monospaced font to try out. It’s nice to have options and maybe give Suse a slightly more distinct look I suppose.

      • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        I like that idea of using the different fonts for e.g. Copilot suggestions - reminds me of reading Asterix comics as a kid when they’d use gothic black for the Goth’s speech, etc.

        edit: e.g.

      • zod000@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 months ago

        I remember these when they came out, and I liked Neon and Krypton the most. I’m glad you linked it so others might get to see it though, thanks!

        • mosjek@lemmy.world
          10·
          2 months ago

          The idea of the github fonts is interesting, but I find it strange that the same letters next to each other can have different widths. I currently prefer the CommitMono approach.

          • zod000@lemmy.ml
            4·
            2 months ago

            That’s actually very much my kind of font, thanks a lot. At first glace I still prefer my current font (Liberation Mono), but I’ll give it a test run and see how it feels after a couple of weeks. You can never tell right away if a font is a keeper.