Comments on: Envy Code R preview #7 (scalable coding font)

By: Adam Thompson

Adam Thompson — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:50:00 +0000

Love the font.
One request for next version is to fill in two codepoints, UTF-8 E2,80,90 and E2,8E,AA.

Codepoint #1 (hyphen): aka U+2010, should display something dash-like. Envy Code R displays an empty cell. It looks like you can just copy U+2013 (en dash), or maybe make it halfway in between an en-dash and em-dash.

Codepoint #2 (curly bracket extension): aka U+23AA, should display some sort of a vertical line. Envy Code R displays an empty cell. You can probably just copy U+2502 (box drawings light vertical).

The use of U+2010 (hyphen) makes at least typographical sense. I’m at a complete loss to explain U+23AA, other than perhaps the authors of GNU groff had a font that didn’t contain box-drawing characters. (The irony here is that the horizontal lines in the boxes it draws are simple U+00AD “hyphen minus”es.)

By: Richard Quadling

Richard Quadling — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:41:37 +0000

Hello. Nice font. Nice horizontal density. 200 characters wide on my display.

But only 60 lines.

Using Lucida Console, I get 175×77

So, is there a way to reduce the gap between the lines?

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono / DejaVu Sans Mono (175×65).

I tend to code with a lot of white space, which is great for printing and then adding notes, but on screen too much whitespace means less code is visible.

Regards,

Richard Quadling.

P.S. Linked to here from http://www.editpadpro.com/fonts.html

By: Seth Wessitsh

Seth Wessitsh — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:44:25 +0000

Best looking monospace font I’ve ever seen. I use it in all my coding software and set it to the monospace font in Firefox.

I only have one problem with it: At smaller sizes the 0 (zero) and 8 (eight) characters can look very similar and are difficult to differentiate. Side by side they’re easy to tell apart but I keep finding myself looking at one or the other and am unsure as to which it is. I’m not sure if this can be improved upon but I thought I’d mention it anyway.

Anyway, Thanks for the great font and all your hard work!

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By: kRock

kRock — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:06:07 +0000

Great Font. Love it. Thank you.

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By: derschreckliche

derschreckliche — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:43:11 +0000

I can just agree with the most comments here, especially with António Pedro Cunha:
This is definitely the best monospace font i know – and yes, i tried much of them…

Biggest congratulations for such a great piece of work!

By: António Pedro Cunha

António Pedro Cunha — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:49:54 +0000

This is without a doubt the best monospace font I have ever seen… Even though you label it as being a preview version, I can’t really imagine how much better it can get.. It just seems perfect already

Congratulations on the best monospace font of the Universe! :)

By: PT789

PT789 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:47:53 +0000

Hi,

This is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC… it has all the characteristics that I have been searching for, and trust me I have been searching for a very, very, very long time. Thank you.

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