<i>Really</i> bad for <i>code</i> though...<p>- the difference between uppercase and lowercase is too low making camelCase very hard to read<p>- the colon is aligned to the left of its space making ":=" look horrible<p>- "$" is hard to distinguish from "S"<p>- [] have funny vertical alignment<p>- every char is a bit wider than it should, wasting a lot of horizontal screen estate - what you want to avoid when working with 3+ columns of code on one screen<p>Bad compared even to Ubuntu Mono. Very bad compared to Source Code Pro. Horrible compared to Consolas.<p>But looks good on titles of articles referencing charity :) Seems like the intended use for a monospace font... right?
It's disturbing that the landing page does not mention at all what charity procedes go to. You need to go to the very bottom of the About page to finally find it's for <a href="http://www.unhcr.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.unhcr.org</a><p>The donation is also done in a sketchy way. Also near the bottom of the About page:<p>> How does this charity thing work?<p>> So far I'm using a solution that means I get payments sent to me to my Paypal and I personally make the donations to charities. I've chosen this way because it's easy.<p>In other words, you're paypal'ing money to a stranger and hope that the money makes it's way to charity<p>To the author's defense, he does have a "Are you to be trusted?" section that acknowledges this. The idea of a pay-what-you-like-for-charity-on-my-side-project idea is neat, but you need some degree of credibility or third-party to make it work. The next side project should be integrating against something that guarantees the promise of the donations.
Microsoft Windows ships with a very nice font called Consolas. It is fantastic for programming.<p>I use it everywhere, including Gnome Terminal on Ubuntu, usually in an 11 point size.<p>I settled on this font while trying numerous monospaced fonts: everything I could get my hands on. Boy was I surprised at how I overlooked Consolas.
That's an interesting license, and very nice of course.<p>I got a bit confused, my initial reading and interpretation was that the intent is to have the actual font used in charity and relief efforts, I guess in signage. That's probably not what the author meant, though.
I read. I went elsewhere. Here's why.<p>The pages do not tell me what I would be paying for. For me, it's important to know what font file format is used, because I need to know what and how many hoops I would have to jump through in order to obtain vt fonts. (Best outcome is two vt fonts: one normal+bold, one light+demibold. This is why the multiple weights interested me in the first place.)<p>* <a href="https://freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vtfontcvt" rel="nofollow">https://freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vtfontcvt</a><p>* <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons#Font_Support" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons#Font_Support</a><p>There's also no information about the character repertoire. Does it have everything in the WGL4? Or the W1G? Or less than either? What <i>does</i> it have?
If any font maker read this. I would like to have a "bitmap" monospace font as a true type font in the same size as Consolas 15px.
With "bitmap" I mean high contrast super crisp, pixel perfect, that don't lose contrast without sub-pixel-antailias.
Really nice and clean. Would prefer it if it included cyrillic characters and more latin ones to cover all European languages (e.g. Polish ł is missing, Czech š, č and probably several Hungarian letters).
spoiler: <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.unhcr.org/</a> is the charity to whom the author intends to donate contributions.
Good news: the purchasing process works fine.<p>Bad news: you cannot download the font (the supplied URL, when clicked, first goes to gumroad.com then to cloudfront.net which gives the error: Safari cannot open the page).