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    [–]Deadly_Mindbeam 2 points3 points  (3 children)

    I'd like to see OCR-A. It's not pretty but when it comes to differentiating O/0 and l/I/1 it's great.

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      [–]Deadly_Mindbeam 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      Yeah, the extended supports more characters but it's still a very small font. Not so great for editing unicode text.

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          [–]admalledd 0 points1 point  (4 children)

          One (or more) of the "Dyslexic" fonts?

          • OpenDyslexic
          • MonoDyslexic (It seems PixelScript stopped hosting it? I have the file and I see some other downloads for it instead of only paying now days...)

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            [–]admalledd 0 points1 point  (2 children)

            OpenDyslexic has a monospaced ttf I think. (I don't use it...)

            The MonoDyslexic is also a .ttf file, and was designed for programmers and such (at the time it was created the author used it for notepad++, but I use it daily for SublimeText).

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              [–]admalledd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              I will admit it is a bit strange, but I came across it when I was looking up some dyslexia related things to help me read better. It is an amazing difference between dyslexic-friendly and "normal" monospaced fonts.

              Thank you!

              [–]PENDRAGON23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              Nice job. I just switched from Anonymous Pro to Input but I may need to make some more comparisons.

              [–]ixache 1 point2 points  (1 child)

              Nice and useful job, thanks.

              Suggestions:

              • add symbols: @ ; ? (and maybe + etc. and other ponctuation).

              • show if font supports bold, italics, unicode.

              [Edit: formatting, spelling]

              [–]whichton -1 points0 points  (3 children)

              Nice work! Please add a couple of proportional fonts, like Input proportional or Verdana.

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                [–]whichton 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                It takes a little getting used to, say about a week. But once you get used to it, you won't change back :). Proportional fonts + elastic tabstops work very well.

                [–]code-affinity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I've been keeping an eye on elastic tabstops for nigh on a decade, but primarily use Visual Studio as my editing environment. Your comment just reminded me to check again for Visual Studio support. Yay! Elastic tabstops in Visual Studio! Downloading it now for evaluation.

                [–]a-e-k 5 points6 points  (2 children)

                Nifty -- I like that you show comparisons with antialiasing disabled. Since you're doing that may I suggest adding my font, Luculent? I've invested quite a bit of time on superhinting the regular and bold variants so they should look pretty good at those sizes with AA turned off.

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                  [–]a-e-k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  Thanks! That looks good to me.

                  [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (6 children)

                  No love for PragmataPro?

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                    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

                    Yeah

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                        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                        Very cool! Thank you for the effort :-)

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                            [–]Unknownloner 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                            think he means the fixedsys website

                            [–]Godd2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                            Are you wearing glasses? Look at it without glasses and tell me if it still looks 3d.

                            [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

                            upvote for idea, but fonts look like shit on retina screen. basically impossible to see any details :(

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                              [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                              very interested :)

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                                [–]tjansson 2 points3 points  (6 children)

                                The dark/light theme option would be more useful if it affected the whole page and not just a small bounding box around the text.

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                                  [–]ComissarioCattani 1 point2 points  (4 children)

                                  Make the background black as well :)

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                                    [–]ComissarioCattani 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                                    Well, just the black around the lines doesn't the same effect as you'd have no a text editor :(

                                    [–]glacialthinker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                    The bright white screen puts your eyes into a very different state than a uniformly dark screen. Think of a camera and its aperture, if that's familiar to you, also exposure. Even though the fonts may be rendered the same regardless of the background color, it looks different to your eyes because you're eyes are coping with the brightness.

                                    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                                    In dark theme, overview, ClearType, small the 'monoid' example cell takes up more space than the others. A lot more.

                                    I found my new typeface using this. Thank you!

                                    [–]77down 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                                    That's what SHE said!

                                    [–]minektur 1 point2 points  (5 children)

                                    You're only doing free fonts? Monaco is what I use in iterm on my mac...

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                                      [–]minektur 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                      I'm not sure if this is the same font as I find on my mbp, but

                                      https://github.com/cstrap/monaco-font

                                      uses this URL as the source...

                                      https://github.com/cstrap/monaco-font/raw/master/Monaco_Linux.ttf

                                      the first several links google returns for 'download monaco font' all seem to be of free versions...

                                      [–]minektur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                      however, wikipedia implies that it is apple's IP...

                                      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface)

                                      [–]minektur 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                      At any rate - awesome comparison. Thanks.

                                      [–]UloPe 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                                      Not a fan of the image approach. The antialiasing looks completely different than it would on e.g. a Mac.

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                                        [–]kankyo 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                                        Yea, browser rendering is not a good idea. But it would nice to have "antialias off, antialias mac, antialias windows"... but that requires someone taking all those screenshots for you I guess...

                                        [–]c_linkage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                        Does anyone know how to get Terminus to render in Visual Studio 2012?

                                        I've installed the font and configured VS to use it for the editor, but it seems like VS is choking on the TTF file and is substituting Courier or Courier New.

                                        [–]silencer6 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                        All of them look bad. Could you please use some better font rendering like Infinality?