[HN Gopher] Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release
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       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...
        
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