[zoidb]

Another font that has a similar aim is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible I find that it strikes a balance between aesthetics and legibility. Two differences I noticed immediately are the 0 and I characters which are much more difficult to distinguish with this font.

[jna_sh]

Huge endorsement for Atkinson Hyperlegible from me. As someone with horrible and declining eyesight in multiple ways, it has improved my computing experience a lot.

There’s been a couple of attempts at making a monospace version, I currently use the one by Edward Shin in my editors and terminal https://github.com/Hylian/atkinson-monolegible

[tangwwwei]

thanks for sharing this monospace version, i've been using atkinson as my browser's sans-serif font

[dylan604]

"Atkinson Hyperlegible is a freely available typeface built around a grotesque sans-serif core,..."

So obviously my understanding of the definition of grotesque is not what's meant as its use in relation to fonts, but the definition in a font's use is just odd on why it is used in this manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotesque_(Stephenson_Blake_ty...

[evertedsphere]

If you click through to the next page:

    According to Monotype, the term "grotesque" originates from Italian: grottesco, meaning "belonging to the cave" due to their simple geometric appearance.[14] The term arose because of adverse comparisons that were drawn with the more ornate Modern Serif and Roman typefaces that were the norm at the time.

[warrenm]

That font does look really nice!

Also noticed the slash in the 0 runs top left to bottom right, rather than the far-more-common [in my experience] top right to bottom left

Any idea why that decision was made?

[hnbad]

An obvious explanation would be that this helps distinguish it from øØ (as in Danish and Norwegian), which is slashed from bottom left to top right. The Wikipedia article does demonstrate its legibility when blurred.

[dylan604]

> which is slashed from bottom left to top right

interesting way to describe this in that it is described in reverse order of how i've always seen it. my first thought is that's because it is also opposite of how i would draw it when writing by hand.

[warrenm]

yeah ... I thought about "top right to bottom left"

because then you are comparing top to top

instead, i kept it left to left :)

[hnbad]

I honestly don't know the stroke order Scandinavian kids are taught when learning an alphabet that contains the letter. I also don't know if it's consistent across languages.

Most strokes that start from a lifted position move from left to right (e.g. the crossbar of the lowercase t) and European languages are written left to right, so describing it as left-to-right seems more intuitive to me.

[dimal]

This looks much better than B612. B612 just looks... awkward. It has these weird little cut-out areas at the intersections of some of the lines. I don't get it. Makes it looks like it's awkwardly pasted together from disparate pieces.

[Pinus]

Those cut-outs look a bit like ink traps, though whether that actually makes any sense in a font unlikely to be used with actual ink, I do not know...

[nabla9]

Thank you. I have been trying to find this font again but I didn't remember it's name. I had it maybe a year installed in my previous computer and I loved it. Really good for coding.

[bhtru]

Do you know of other fonts with the same goal as Atkinson Hyperlegible? It's gorgeous.

[nazka]

Thanks you for sharing, it's very interesting.