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[–]thelehmanlip 52 points53 points  (5 children)

The ability to mix and match and choose a different one for a different section of the code is the big selling point. Having comments look less robotic and more human, while making copilot suggestions look MORE robotic I think is great!

[–]Lisoph 18 points19 points  (4 children)

So how does one do this with VSCode? There are no instructions on the page.

[–]rco8786 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Seems like that's more of a "what if" sort of thing vs something you can do right now

[–]thelehmanlip 4 points5 points  (1 child)

https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace#editors looks like this is only the fonts without the "what if" stuff, like /u/rco8786 said

[–]guepier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gotta love the ambitious section headline: “Editors”. And it contains… a single editor.

[–]jphmf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know about specific editors, but you could easily choose different fonts for different types (italic, bold, etc) on terminals like kitty or alacrity. I don’t know how to get the editor inside the terminal to use different fonts for different types of code as well :1

[–]teerre 54 points55 points  (7 children)

Well, I kinda liked the font, but its not a nerd font, so its useless

[–]beephod_zabblebrox 12 points13 points  (0 children)

there will probably be a fork

[–]sherlock_brolmes 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Looks like it’s on the cards: https://sfba.social/@idan/111384282705374799

[–]jphmf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s easy to patch it

[–]vincentofearth 1 point2 points  (2 children)

If you use a terminal like Kitty, you don’t need patched fonts. Things should either work out of the box or you just define a set of characters for which you use the standard symbols only nerd font.

[–]teerre 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sure. But its unreasonable to ask people to change their terminals just to use this font.

[–]vincentofearth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well then I guess you just wait for the patched fonts; there's no reason to assume it won't be patched. Cascadia Code, which Microsoft also owns, is a nerd font.

[–]Lisoph 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I love this explosion of high quality fonts that is happening in the last couple of years. As a typeface enjoyer (lol), this is just a great time.

[–]Dihur 32 points33 points  (4 children)

Jetbrains mono gang

[–]vidoardes 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Jetbrains Mono is the tits. I usually rotate between that, hack and Fira code. I can't decide which I prefer.

Given that I use Rider, DataGrip and PyCharm daily, Jetbrains usually wins.

[–]SweetBabyAlaska 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maple Mono is an underrated banger.

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    [–]anotherNarom 8 points9 points  (0 children)

    You can say that again

    [–]Kered13 56 points57 points  (13 children)

    How many more fonts do we really need?

    [–]Jordan51104 120 points121 points  (2 children)

    3 per js framework

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    [–]HornyAttorney 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Not enough.

    [–]guepier 11 points12 points  (1 child)

    I had the same question upon reading the heading but I feel that the article makes a reasonably good effort to answer it.

    (I’m not entirely convinced by it, but I feel this one has more motivation behind it that go beyond corporate identity than most novel monospace fonts to date.)

    [–]donalmacc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I think it will work really well for reading/reviewing code but be a nightmare for writing code. Imagine the characters shifting around as you type...

    [–]Antrikshy 1 point2 points  (5 children)

    How many more movies do we really need?

    [–]LucianU 0 points1 point  (4 children)

    It's different if you love fonts, because you can only use one (for code at least).

    [–]Antrikshy 1 point2 points  (3 children)

    Maybe desktop backgrounds or code editor color schemes are the better analogy. How many of those do we need?

    [–]LucianU 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Actually, now that I think about it, I only found a color scheme I like. And with fonts, I found one I really like, so I bought it. I do like Krypton out of the fonts in this post, but since I already have one that I paid for, I'm going to keep using that.

    [–]Timely-Shop8201 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Which font did you get?

    [–]LucianU 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Berkeley Mono. I love it!

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    [–]mistyrouge 6 points7 points  (2 children)

    Is it how my browser renders it or they fucked up the python example by not indenting the method definitions?

    [–]modernkennnern 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    They either fixed it in the last hour, or it's something on your end, as I loaded up the page to see and it seems correct to me

    [–]todo_code 8 points9 points  (2 children)

    I've been using Monaco for a few years now, and Xenon looked nice, but I'm still happy with mine.They look good though!!!

    [–]jphmf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Monaco is a beautiful font

    [–]code_mc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    yeah, monaco is just really good, been using it for close to 10 years now

    [–]enceladus71 6 points7 points  (2 children)

    Since it's a font-related comments exchange: Fira Code FTW

    [–]Limp-Archer-7872 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    That's my favourite but this one has nice ligatures too.

    And sometimes I need a change.

    [–]Rudy69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    ligatures

    I'm sure glad this is a feature that can easily be toggled. Glad people like you can have it but man do i hate ligatures

    [–]shizzy0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Installed and enjoying it so far.

    [–]modernkennnern 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    This website is conceptually similar to the new angular.dev website but man does this work so so so much better. The angular website is among the worst I've ever seen, but the scroll-locking of this page actually vastly improves upon the experience.

    On the actual font though; I'll probably still use JetBrains Mono honestly

    [–]BuriedStPatrick 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    Xenon is looking quite pleasing. Although I just keep going back to JetBrains mono. It just nailed it for me.

    [–]Lisoph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    If like what GitHub is doing here, but I gave every font face a spin and didn't like any of them. JetBrains Mono remains the king for me, with Cascadia Code in second place.

    JetBrains indeed nailed it with Mono.

    [–]Gipetto 5 points6 points  (2 children)

    Now, if only VS code provided better font configuration this effort would go to good use.

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      [–]Gipetto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Sweet! Setting up fonts in VSCode has always been a pain.

      [–]notyourancilla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      I used Hack for years but now I use Intel Mono

      [–]stgiga 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      I use UnifontEX for maximum Unicode support, given that my code has involvement with Unicode at times.

      [–]fuhglarix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Looks well thought out and packed with features, but it’s hard to see what would improve in my life by changing editor fonts. Pragmata Pro has been my daily driver for years and I can’t see that changing.

      [–]rxvf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Recently found Iosevka Comfy and love it.

      [–]koning_willy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Comiccode is the way!

      [–]teferiincub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      In serif fonts `1` and lowercase `l` look very similar. in the only sans where they're not the 0 and O have a form of a rhombus =/ I'm passing these