[RndTbl] New & novel font family MONASPACE
Trevor Cordes
trevor at tecnopolis.ca
Thu Nov 16 14:46:06 CST 2023
On 2023-11-14 Adam Thompson wrote:
> For the font geeks... The "healing" aspect is, AFAIK, long-known to
> be possible, but I think this is the first time it's been seen in the
> wild - exciting, but also now I'm wondering about possible new attack
> vectors inside the TTF runtime...
>
> https://monaspace.githubnext.com/
Wow, new font tech that might not bug me (cleartype ugh) and might make
me happier (in my old age seeing the difference between o and c in
normal fonts @8pts in the terminal is getting harder).
Argon looks most promising for me.
So in theory the font files can be put in a linux font folder somewhere
and these can be run in gnome-terminal? Has anyone tried?
I've found sometimes fonts that "leave their cell" can cause artifacts
as X & terminals (or whatever) has imperfect handling. I wonder if
these will suffer from this. I also wonder about performance in terms
of cpu loading, though surely this must be a nothingburger drop in the
bucket? Last thing anyone wants is the editor / terminal getting laggy
when typing or shifting text around. Then again, this isn't a MS
product.
Great post Adam! I wonder when this will show up as normal packages in
the repos... like in Fedora...
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