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by t_mann 858 days ago
Judging from the one screenshot example, I actually like Monocraft better. It really has that nice Minecraft/retro look, and I think this could actually help get kids who are into Minecraft into coding. That being said, I actually still like Miracode better than most typical IDE monospace fonts (at least as a novelty). That's really cool, where did you learn to make such designs?
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Yes, this font reminds me of the "Faithful" texture packs (which makes sense, it's basically the same principle: still pixelated, but "zoomed out", more dense) and I don't like those. It's as if the 16x look has something magical, while everything above it looks "low res".
Same for me, but I grew up and mostly learned my earliest programming on 8-bit machines so the monocraft style is way more in my burned synapses.
It does have "hq4x" feel.