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by bigbottomenergy 1225 days ago
Wow screenshots of text rendered on a notoriously bad text renderer, then downscaled and posted in a blog. A text-based description of the fonts might be worse, but only barely.

Yeah, man, so much effort and every screenshot looks identical in context in the blog post.

Iosevka and Iosevka-Comfy for the win.

2 comments

Click on the images to embiggen.
You probably meant 'enlarge'. "Embiggen" was made up by the simpsons as a joke.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
All words in use today were made up at some point and then accepted through popular use. Merriam-Webster accepted this one into their dictionary some years ago.[1]

And Dictionary.com acknowledges it may have been published previously in 1884 by C.A. Ward as an example of a barbarous verb.[2][3]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen

[2] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/embiggen

[3] https://academic.oup.com/nq/article-abstract/s6-X/242/135/43...

You understood the meaning well enough, which is the purpose of a word. Perhaps you need to embiggen your perspective.
Anyone can embiggen me any time they want.
In the same episode as that other word - amazing
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
I tried Iosevka but it felt too much like the bitmap ROM fonts on old computers and terminals. All those fonts were a little too pixel-dense.
That may be why it -- and Envy Code R -- are the only "modern" monospace fonts I can stand for very long. Everything else just looks like IBM Letter Gothic, or some other typewriter vendor's substitute for Letter Gothic. Hence why I use bitmap or bitmap-like fonts for terminals.