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Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

356 点作者 yankcrime9 个月前

30 条评论

deathanatos9 个月前
So, if you&#x27;re going to demonstrate the box drawing characters — and in a monospaced font, I would — they should line up?<p>E.g., under &quot;lines&quot;, the rows are overlapping; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KnOP2Wu.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KnOP2Wu.png</a> ; I would think they&#x27;re only supposed to just touch, with no gap, no overlap.<p>The boxes, similarly, don&#x27;t quite line up right. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;6pVYh9a.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;6pVYh9a.png</a> (Even the 100% box isn&#x27;t lining up right, although somehow what FF screenshotted != what it rendered. <i>sigh.</i>) The point being, you want these to tile seamlessly. Oddly, they tile <i>differently</i> in the pictures-of-font that break up the page. (Which I&#x27;m not sure what they&#x27;re supposed to be? One is called &quot;5af1d7a5-fa60-4827-9b4f-808cdb635d59&quot; and has no alt text. They remind me of Dwarf Fortress though.)<p>As other people hint, this seems like the line height is cramped. I&#x2F;l&#x2F;1 ambiguities is a deal breaker for any terminal font, though.
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fernly9 个月前
For those commenting on the importance of character ambiguity, I completely agree, and offer &quot;DP Sans Mono&quot;, a font specifically designed for unambiguous proofreading.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgdp.net&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DP_Sans_Mono" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgdp.net&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DP_Sans_Mono</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgdp.net&#x2F;c&#x2F;faq&#x2F;font_sample.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgdp.net&#x2F;c&#x2F;faq&#x2F;font_sample.php</a><p>font download link at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgdp.net&#x2F;phpBB3&#x2F;viewtopic.php?t=70714" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgdp.net&#x2F;phpBB3&#x2F;viewtopic.php?t=70714</a>
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lycos9 个月前
I can&#x27;t put my finger on it but I don&#x27;t find this enjoyable to read at all.. so I don&#x27;t know much about readability claims here. Maybe I&#x27;m an outlier.
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malodyets9 个月前
Much good there but l and 1 are identical.
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drewhk9 个月前
Well, instead of complaining here about 1 and l, I just filed a ticket on their GH repo and it already got resolved... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;internet-development&#x2F;www-server-mono&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;internet-development&#x2F;www-server-mono&#x2F;issu...</a>
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andyferris9 个月前
Nitpick: the acknowledgements make a cute usage of &quot;thy&quot; and &quot;thou hast&quot;. However, they actually refer to multiple individuals, and need to use &quot;your&quot; and &quot;you have&quot;. Boring, and wrecks the aesthetic, I know...
eddyg9 个月前
I’ll just mention Berkeley Graphics and the <i>excellent</i> Berkeley Mono.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;berkeleygraphics.com&#x2F;typefaces&#x2F;berkeley-mono&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;berkeleygraphics.com&#x2F;typefaces&#x2F;berkeley-mono&#x2F;</a>
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java-man9 个月前
As an alternative, I would suggest to consider Iosevka [0]. I am using it in the browser and for coding.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;be5invis&#x2F;Iosevka">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;be5invis&#x2F;Iosevka</a>
vincent-manis9 个月前
I&#x27;m also not enthralled with this. Mind you, I really like Cascadia Code, which in its 2024 iteration includes NerdFonts characters. Finally, something done by Microsoft that I can recommend unreservedly!
ddtaylor9 个月前
&gt; and the Internet Development Studio Company community<p>This reads very PR-ish and lame.
cormullion9 个月前
Font seems to not include the &#x27;&lt;&#x27;, &#x27;&gt;&#x27;, or &#x27;=&#x27; characters. I sympathize with font designers, there are so many glyphs you have to stare at - hundred if not thousands - for days and weeks on end; eventually you get tired of seeing them...
Uehreka9 个月前
Not sure what the images on this page are supposed to be, they don’t load in iOS Safari. Also I’m not seeing the 1&#x2F;I&#x2F;l confusion other people are talking about, so it’s possible the font isn’t rendering in Safari either and it’s falling back to the default monospace font.
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inglor_cz9 个月前
Just a comment from behind the former Iron Curtain, I am really happy that you included letters with diacritics.<p>When it comes to ÁĚÝŘŠ etc., the Iron Curtain still sometimes rears its head from the screen, even in 2024.
YarickR29 个月前
Perfect line spacing, other fonts have it way too wide between lines, screen feels half-empty. Great font, switching to it . Medium weight would be lovely, though
throwaway815239 个月前
Why do we need another font like this? It looks ugly anyway, plus has the other problems people mentioned about character distinguishability.
ghostly_s9 个月前
A single weight font doesn&#x27;t really meet the needs of modern CLI environments does it?<p>And I don&#x27;t get what the ASCII art have to do with anything. What does it depict? Screenshots from some scifi movie?<p>And finally oh god, l and 1 are <i>literally the same</i>.
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usefulcat9 个月前
Tangential, but I quite like this quote: “Just as the scientist must think and experiment alternately, so the artist, the author and the scholar must alternate creation or study with participation in the life around them.”
morning-coffee9 个月前
How far back from the monitor should I be to be able to interpret what the ASCII art blocks are showing? Seems like maybe they were inspired by those 90&#x27;s &quot;Magic Eye&quot; pictures.
byte_09 个月前
I am not sure if I like the font or not, but I do like the corpus of text used to demonstrate the character rendering. At first glance, I thought it was Quenya or Sindarin, but I am not too sure.
paulcarroty9 个月前
Great SF improvements, waiting for Nerd Fonts version :)
y_fucimo9 个月前
It might be better to create a website with a light theme, especially for a typeface inspired by typewriters.<p>I just can&#x27;t read it.
h4ch19 个月前
after trying a myriad of &quot;programming&quot; fonts, nothing feels more comfortable than Pragmasevka [0], a mix of PragmataPro and Iosevka.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shytikov&#x2F;pragmasevka">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shytikov&#x2F;pragmasevka</a>
voidUpdate9 个月前
Personally, for a monospaced font, I prefer Jetbrains Mono. It&#x27;s free and looks nice to me
replete9 个月前
line-height: 28px !important<p>It&#x27;s not very readable with line-height set to the x-height, ironically. Cool font though.<p>Find some old demoscene &#x2F; warez ansi headers and show it put some on the homepage perhaps?
AnthonBerg9 个月前
After reading through the thread, I want to show my warm and honest appreciation for Server Mono.<p>I like the art! I like the feel and… idk, visual rhythm? One man’s inconsistent is another man’s lively. I like the tight linespacing; Am of the opinion that line art glyphs should touch each other across lines – of course! – but it can’t be solved at the font level. We need console-oriented text rendering that knows how to connect those glyps. Could be done automatically but seems awkward. Could be done even better with, say, some kind of anchor points embedded into the font file – in a particular UNICODE location maybe?<p>And I for one don’t really mind I and l and 1 looking similar. Distinct is better but I am fond of the historic imperfection. O and 0 <i>absolutely need</i> to be distinguishable though! haha
lelanthran9 个月前
That image at the top looks like petsci art.
__mharrison__9 个月前
Interesting choices for 1 and l...
riiii9 个月前
Moaning about my personal preference, it&#x27;s not for me. I find the letter shapes inconsistent and line spacing is too narrow. My eyes hurt after reading a few lines.<p>But hey, well done on getting it out the door!
IshKebab9 个月前
Line spacing is way too tight.
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oguz-ismail9 个月前
Lowercase f and r are ugly.
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