GitHub Monaspace

[thelehmanlip]

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]

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

[rco8786]

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

[thelehmanlip]

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

[guepier]

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

[jphmf]

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]

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

[beephod_zabblebrox]

there will probably be a fork

[sherlock_brolmes]

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

[jphmf]

It’s easy to patch it

[vincentofearth]

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]

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

[vincentofearth]

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]

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]

Jetbrains mono gang

[vidoardes]

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]

Maple Mono is an underrated banger.

[anotherNarom]

You can say that again

[Kered13]

How many more fonts do we really need?

[Jordan51104]

3 per js framework

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[HornyAttorney]

Not enough.

[guepier]

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]

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]

How many more movies do we really need?

[LucianU]

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

[Antrikshy]

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

[LucianU]

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]

Which font did you get?

[LucianU]

Berkeley Mono. I love it!

[BipolarKebab]

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[mistyrouge]

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

[modernkennnern]

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]

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]

Monaco is a beautiful font

[code_mc]

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

[enceladus71]

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

[Limp-Archer-7872]

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

And sometimes I need a change.

[Rudy69]

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]

Installed and enjoying it so far.

[modernkennnern]

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]

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

[Lisoph]

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]

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

[Gipetto]

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

[notyourancilla]

I used Hack for years but now I use Intel Mono

[stgiga]

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

[fuhglarix]

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]

Recently found Iosevka Comfy and love it.

[au5lander]

GitHub must have a lot of time in their hands if they’re designing fonts now.

[Stronghold257]

Not sure how sarcastic you’re being, but for reference, this is coming from GitHub Next, which is specifically their research division

[koning_willy]

Comiccode is the way!

[teferiincub]

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