Ivo Totev and Spencer Davis   Creating a typeface is a de...

SUSE just open-sourced a typeface :)

    • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Silly question: what’s the difference between the otf and ttf fonts?

      Edit: thanks for the explainers!

        • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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          2 months ago

          OTF is a modern extended version of TTF, with more features. Downsides are it can be bigger in filesize and could even take longer to load. But that is not really relevant for modern computing and one should default to OTF, unless there is a good reason to use TTF variant (if both are available).

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    But does it have unicode emojis?

    😀 😁 😂 😃 😄 😅 😆 😇 😈 🕧 🕯️ 🕰️ 🕳️ 🕴️ 🕵️ 🕶️ 🕷️ 🕸️ 🕹️ 🕺 🖇️ 🖊️ 🖋️ 🖌️ 🖍️ 🖐️ 🖕 🖖 🖤 🖥️ 🖨️ 🖱️ 🖲️ 🖼️ 🗂️ 🗃️ 🗄️ 🗑️ 🗒️ 🗓️ 🗜️ 🗝️ 🗞️ 🗡️ 🗣️ 🗨️ 🗯️ 🗳️ 🗺️ 🗻 🗼 🗽 🗾 🗿

    Hmm it specifically seems to be missing emojis

  • aksdb@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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?

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • Petter1@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Same as any other font. Add it to ~/.fonts or /usr/local/fonts. You might also have something like font browser already preinstalled, and usually there’s an Install button

  • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
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    2 months ago

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

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

  • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Not a fan of semi-serif fonts, and not digging the rounded “corners” on E and L (while having sharp ones in lowercase L and lowercase i), but it seems it is trying to be highly readable so indeed it should be great for UI stuff. And doing a complete typeface covering such huge character map is no easy job.

  • Fliegenpilzgünni@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    I will give the font a try!

    I’m not dyslexic, but I think legibility is super important and underrated on most distros. This one looks both aesthetic and very readable.

    Do you know if it is already in the Fedora repos? If not, how can I install it?

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    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!

    • Botzo@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

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

        • Botzo@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

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

          • Hnery@feddit.org
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            2 months ago

            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.

            • Botzo@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              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

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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.

      • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.