GEgedy·Dec 6, 2021
Recursive Sans Mono, casual or semicasual: https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive
In Ask HN: What's your current favorite programming font?arrowtype
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Recursive Mono & Sans is a variable font family for code & UI
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What it is
Recursive Mono & Sans is a variable font family for code & UI
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My favorite monospaced font is Recursive Mono. https://www.recursive.design/ https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive I am not sure whether this is a actually feature of this…
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 2020 | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Aug 2020 | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2020 | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2020 | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2020 | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2020 | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2021 | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2021 | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2021 | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2021 | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2021 | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2021 | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2021 | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2021 | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2021 | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2021 | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2021 | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourceshttps://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/blob/main/OFL.txt says it is the most common open source font license, and allows even commercial use. It can definitely be shipped by distros.
In Input: Customisable Fonts for CodeMy favorite monospaced font is Recursive Mono.
https://www.recursive.design/
https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive
I am not sure whether this is a actually feature of this font.
Some ligatures, like => are only active in comments. It works both in Sublime Text and QtCreator: https://imgur.com/nWsZieo
In Dev FontsCan I ask what software you ran into that issue with? Probably, it was a strict-monospace environment, like vim in a terminal. I have created code-specific fonts to deal with this issue:
there are fonts made specifically for code which have code ligatures & the simple l, f, 6, & 9 frozen in, if you like these features but don’t want to mess with OpenType features (or if your code editor doesn’t support that).
https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/tree/main/fonts/rec_m....
The issue doesn’t occur in web browsers, as far as I know, as they support proportional type (include mostly-mono families with a few proportional glyphs).
In Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google FontsThere is a stylistic set which allows you to get an unambiguous 1 vs l (ss05). See:
https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive#opentype-features
Also, there are fonts made specifically for code which have code ligatures & the simple l, f, 6, & 9 frozen in, if you like these features but don’t want to mess with OpenType features (or if your code editor doesn’t support that).
https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/tree/main/fonts/rec_m...
In Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts