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by sedatk 86 days ago
Berkeley Mono, Iosevka, and Cascadia Code are missing which are my favorite fonts. The game handed me Roboto Mono instead.

What I noticed while playing was that when fonts are similar, I really pay attention to the rendering of "m" and "r". When they look off, the whole font looks off to me.
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pmarreck 86 days ago
Berkeley Mono was the first time I bought a font.

It's so good. Perfect even. And they have a really neat customization tool.

I've been using it for a few years now and they actually still occasionally release a new version of it. Haven't gotten tired of it yet.

The only complaint I have about it is that I had to do a hacky workaround to get my Nix setups to pull it in since it's proprietary.

I even forked their "Machine Report" tool (which presumes Debian) to make it work on Linux/NixOS by applying a "polyfill": https://github.com/pmarreck/usgc-machine-report-nixos-editio...

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faustlast 86 days ago
Berkeley + iosevka = https://github.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono
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articsputnik 85 days ago
ohh thanks for sharing, I'll check that out.
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CoolGuySteve 86 days ago
It's really funny that after going through all those fonts it landed on Ubuntu Mono for me which is what I use anyways to code in my terminal.

I wonder if it's Stockholm syndrome or if I really do prefer it. It's a totally fine font, I've never felt the need to change it. All the default open source mono fonts seem completely adequate I suppose.

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