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by z3t4 3677 days ago
If any font maker read this. I would like to have a "bitmap" monospace font as a true type font in the same size as Consolas 15px. With "bitmap" I mean high contrast super crisp, pixel perfect, that don't lose contrast without sub-pixel-antailias.
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Crispness was one of my primary motivations for learning to make my own programming font, Luculent [1][2]. Consolas is wider so the proportions aren't quite the same. But mine is superhinted to look good with no or limited antialiasing at 15 ppem, among other sizes.

[1] http://eastfarthing.com/luculent [2] https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/luculent

It looks good on many sizes with anti-alias turned off. But with anti-alias it's very thin and the contrast is bad.
Good work, thank you!

To my taste, it's a bit too dense for regular coding. Very nice for diffing/merging and for console.

This is a very nice typeface indeed! And uniquely beautiful.