SUSE just open-sourced a typeface :)

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      I don’t think this font was designed for the terminal. It’s a sans font with some inspiration from monospace styling, but with focus of brand recognition and usage in headlines or text. That’s what I’m getting here. Similar to what Ubuntu does with their font.

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    I need more discussion on typefaces. Typography is one of my hyperfixations. :-)

    P.S.: I meant “special interests”, not hyperfixations.

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    I don’t understand how that hybrid is supposed to work. Monospace is a binary attribute; either all chars have the same width or not. So what is the font now?

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    I think it is a beautiful font, but I feel like I can not read it as well as others fonts in my high DPI small font (or basically anything small) setup.

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    I don’t love it, but I also went in hoping for a possible new monospaced font to try out. It’s nice to have options and maybe give Suse a slightly more distinct look I suppose.

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        I like that idea of using the different fonts for e.g. Copilot suggestions - reminds me of reading Asterix comics as a kid when they’d use gothic black for the Goth’s speech, etc.

        edit: e.g.

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    I’m not a fan of the way the lowercase L’s tail interacts with uppercase letters, but other than that it’s not bad!

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      The “fi” combination also seems problematic since they seem to intersect.

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          To me, that’s even worse. Ligatures that have 0 separation where it’s expected short circuit my reading comprehension.

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            You can turn them off with every font. But you’ll be surprised by how much they can improve readability, because they remove optical irritation as shown here.

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              So what I see there is that badly designed fonts require ligatures to correct interactions.

              Like, I get that there are some neat ones, e.g. I have them turned on when writing code for symbols, but they seem wholly unnecessary and distracting in alphabetical characters.

              But I’m also the kind of weirdo that thinks the world needs more monospace fonts.

              /shrug