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Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code (monaspace.githubnext.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Because otherwise they couldn't justify their continued work on things nobody asked for.

Also, those letter combinations are called ligatures, and are generally a bad idea in monospace fonts. The point of them is to make it very clear where one character ends and the next one begins.