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Microsoft's Latest Open-Source Contribution: A New Font For Terminals & Code Editors
DejaVu looks like the kerning is a bit ick, such as "srv". Cascadia sort of looks like the kerning is handled well but the tracking(I think it's called?) looks really tight, so the readability is hampered a bit by squishing letters too closely. "root" also feels a bit weird with the "o" height, other than that I'm a bit biased as the style of Cascadia glyphs don't appeal to me.
Droid really does look much nicer and readable from those screenshots, thanks for the comparison images!
Is it wrong that I instantly started thinking how this can be a bad thing?
Patent trap? License incompatibility? Tivoization? NSA backdoor? Font renderer exploits?
Actually I thought the "k" looked like crap too. Doesn't seem to match.
But you're fine with the "c"? or that "i"(rather than the weird curves just looks much larger/dominant than it should be)? Other characters also feel off or weird though, so it could just be me not liking the style.
I used to use Liberation Sans Mono, for its crispness and clear distinction between lowercase L and uppercase I and O and 0. Then friend recommended Go Mono. I was very sceptical and found it bulky at first. It grew on me after some time and now I'm addicted. There is something in Go Mono that says "use me".
As for that Microsoft font, I hate ligatures and anything that can visually fake unicode with plain ASCII.
Last edited by reavertm; 19 September 2019, 04:27 AM.
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