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.
People actually change fonts in their IDE? I’ve always used whatever the default is and never even thought about it.
Love Fira Code but recently switched to https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ and it’s equally great.
What makes this unique is that they’re saying this allows for different fonts in the same piece of code. So you could have comments in one font, your code in another, AI written code in another, etc. Looks like all the fonts are the same size, so everything still aligns nicely.
some people even change default system fonts used in the deskop environment (menu’s, filemanager etc) 😎😁
I’ve always preferred IBM’s Plex Mono, specifically the Nerd Fonts version.
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.
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.
No support for this yet in VSCode it seems.
Fonts are an OS thing. If you don’t have support for it, that’s because you haven’t downloaded it yet.
I was talking about this…
Reading some marketing blurb about how these fonts are totally like state of the art and will make everything better is different from buying into what it claims, I guess?
Personally I’m not all that convinced that these’ll be as revolutionary as they make them sound – and Radon is so bad that it makes me question whether the claims about readability and whatnot have any connection to the fonts they published – but I’ll have to give them a whirl anyhow.
Apparently, as ugly as it is, comic sans and similar fonts are supposedly easier to read at a glance than your typical monospace font. I can’t stand it so I don’t use it myself, but some people prefer it due to that.