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Hi, I'm the author of programmingfonts.org. Operator Mono certainly is pretty. I always loved consolas on Windows (honestly, it's the only thing that rendered
by klageveen 8y ago
Hi, I'm the author of programmingfonts.org.
Operator Mono certainly is pretty. I always loved consolas on Windows (honestly, it's the only thing that rendered properly on Win7). That said, I can only include fonts that are freely available, or where the owner of the font allows me to (in the case of Input Mono). I have tried for a few others, but haven't been so lucky there. So, no proprietary or otherwise commercial fonts. I do try to feature them on the blog though.
- fermienrico 8y agoYou can always use a static .svg or .png in place.
- klageveen 8y agoThat's what I feature on the blog, but you'll notice the right-hand side of app.programmingfonts.org is interactive. That's kinda hard to do with static images ;)
- javajosh 8y agoWould it violate the ToS to create a simple sprite sheet out of a proprietary fixed-width font?
- m45t3r 8y agoI don't think the author needs to go to such lengths just to support some proprietary fonts, specially considering that there are great free and open options.
- klageveen 8y agoIt probably would. Redistributing the font in another form is usually a violation. It’s also severely impractical ;)
- gralx 8y agoThanks very much for this, klageveen! I chose my default mono font the hard way and wish I'd known about your site back then. Even so, comparing each font on your site affirmed my choice (Hack ftw). I'll be back, though, and will check out your blog in the mean time.
- lacer 8y agoAfter going throw the list and trying out many of them in my editor, I also picked Hack. What a beautiful font, even in surprisingly small sizes.
- gralx 8y agoIt really is beautiful. It's a variant of Deja Vu, as I recall, and its hinting is perfect on my display. The feature I really needed, though, was good Unicode coverage, especially for math and logic symbols, and Hack has that spades.
- Asooka 8y agoCan't you have a "system fonts" section that uses the fonts already installed, so people can compare if they are running the respective OS?
- klageveen 8y agoWell, there is no way to get a list of installed fonts via the browser, but I have thought about adding an input so you can try installed fonts. I just don't have enough time to tackle all the ideas I have!
- beefman 8y agoCheck out B612 Mono http://b612-font.com/ http://b612-font.com/
- pavon 8y agoHave you looked at the licensing of the Lucida family of fonts (particularly Sans Typewriter and Console)? From a quick check it looks like just the old bitmap fonts are available for redistribution, and all the scalable varieties are proprietary, but I'm also seeing some contradictory information, so I'm not 100% certain on that. If allowed it would be a great addition to the site.
- klageveen 8y agoI have looked at it but have not found a suitable variant. All I find are commercial versions and “The fonts are not redistributable”. Honestly, I doubt bitmap versions are useful for most people.
- mhdhejazi 8y agoIt would be great if I can filter those fonts that support ligatures (Like Fira Code).
- Flat_Lined 8y agoSome that have ligatures state it after the year they cameo out. For fonts that don't have ligatures on their own you could use something like Ligaturizer. This adds ligatures based on the Fira Code font to any other font. These ligatures are taken verbatim from Fira Code though, so some will not match perfectly with their non-ligature counterpart.