Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code
3 years ago by GnuLinuxDude to c/technology
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.
It's a cool idea and the example they gave actually seemed pretty neat.
I'd (somewhat perversely) love to see this feature tried in a terminal emulator. ANSI does actually define escape codes for switching to alternative fonts (ESC [ 10 m through ESC [ 19 m) though I don't know of any software or even term drawing library that uses it.
That would really be neat.
A lot of code editors support that without the weird "healing" features they laid out here.
VSCode has pretty decent semantic based formatting options.
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Having different font styles depending on the context is a really nice feature. I'll definitely give it a try.
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