If this is true let's go over to all caps. The argument is bigger characters equals more pixels. The font has increased the height of the lower case characters. Unfortunately I'm not at all sure that the first claim to fame is valid. It even has a page explaining why it is so good. So JetBrains, a company I admire, has joined the club and created an open source font, JetBrains Mono, suitable for programming.

They criticize them and they make fun of people not as well tuned into their aesthetic as they might be - Comic Sans anyone? I have a sneaking feeling that the reason is that it makes the techies sound vaguely arty, or is it that it makes the arties sound vaguely techie? For whatever reason there is a huge one-up-manship to be had in the devotion to fonts. Are we really still back in the days of punched cards? Ah well, at least a mono-spaced font makes lining up indents easy.unless of course you use tabs and I'm not stupid enough to open up that particular war over another iota.īut some programmers, and people in general, seem to love fonts. Why? Because they allow columns of characters to line up properly. Even when it comes to reading code, about the only thing we are agreed on is that mono-spaced fonts are better. Which font is usable in any situation can be a pain point as well as a code point.īeyond the details of implementation, however, most programmers are just glad to have a font in any of the font families - Sans, Times etc. Steve Jobs was a font devotee - enough said? For most programmers, fonts are usually some sort of trial by undocumented APIs and vague resources.

They hold an almost mystical attraction for some people. So the news that JetBrains has a new programming font will either excite you or leave you wondering what the fuss is about.įonts. There are two types of people in this world - no it's not 'that' joke - those who revel in fonts and all things to do with them and those who hardly notice them.

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