[HN Gopher] Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release ___________________________________________________________________ Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release Author : nullchan Score : 46 points Date : 2023-01-30 17:46 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (berkeleygraphics.com) (TXT) w3m dump (berkeleygraphics.com) | dang wrote: | Related: | | _Berkeley Mono v1.008 Released_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33614114 - Nov 2022 (2 | comments) | | _Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30557557 - March 2022 (171 | comments) | wyager wrote: | That <|> looks great! | AJRF wrote: | I paid for this font. I can't believe it, but I just kept coming | back to the webpage every week thinking "Aww dang its nice, but | no way would I ever pay $75 for a font for personal use". | | But I kept coming back. Again and again, just looking through | their page. I tried the trial. I eventually caved. A weird moment | for me, but I bloody love this font and I frequently notice how | nice it is in all my IDEs. | | I sound like a shill, sorry. | anamexis wrote: | I had the same journey with Codelia[1]. Berkeley looks great, | though! | | [1] https://tosche.net/fonts/codelia | vinkelhake wrote: | I had a very similar experience with Pragmata Pro. I kept | coming back to the page and eventually just forked out the | money for it. I adore that font and I've been using it for | going on 8 years. | | This is not a this font vs. that font comment - it's about | spending money on a _font_ and how a lot of people find that a | weird thing. For me, I came to the realization that it 's a | thing I literally spend hours every day looking at, so if | spending a small amount of cash would improve that experience | then why would I _not_ do it? | swah wrote: | Me too - then Iosevka came along... | huhtenberg wrote: | The website is great. Font looks great and samples are awesome, | so tried it just now. | | Windows, 1920 x 1200 @ 96 dpi, Visual Studio, light-on-dark | theme. I like 'em small to fit more on the screen and at 8px | this font looks janky. It is _blurry_ with uneven thickness and | requires an eye strain to read. It doesn 't seem to be hinted | at all even though it is a TTF version. | | Here's Berkley Mono on the left and Mensch on the right - | https://i.imgur.com/CM27hVV.png | | At 9px characters somehow retain their width but just get | taller. | | At 10px it starts looking better, but glyphs still look kinda | feeble and aren't terribly pleasant to look at. | | Just 2c. The character design is very nice still. | nice_byte wrote: | this looks sick, I might actually give in and swap the IBM VGA | bitmap font I use everywhere for this... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-30 23:00 UTC)