The first thing I always, always look at when reviewing a new monospace font for coding is I look at the 'l'.
The first time I googled monospace fonts, you see, to decide what I wanted to use when I was setting up my first IDE (intelliJ, I think it was), I saw a bunch of images of different fonts, and when I saw the 'l' of DejaVu Sans, my jaw dropped. It was beautiful.
You have that similar style of l. Source Code Pro has it, as does Ubuntu Mono and Menlo. It's that straight notch at the top with the curvy tail at the bottom. I love it. It's kinda quirky but elegant at the same time.
I'm still using DejaVu because many of those other ones have the asterisk symbol appearing too low for my taste.
I like your font. I see what someone else meant when they said it looks kinda 'fun'.
In your screenshot in the top left, I noticed the word 'int' looks a bit wonky. the n and t are kinda leaning into each other, with the i leaning outward. Character balance is a hard thing to achieve, I've read. Keep working on it, it's a very lovely project.
Found Menlo for Windows and gave it a shot. The "i" italic is way too slanty, it looks weird with syntax highlighting.
Then I found Meslo, which is some guy's attempt to copy Menlo and make it available for windows; this fixes my problem with Menlo, and also fixes my only problem with DejaVu : the dotted zeroes as opposed to slashed zeroes.
Thanks. As for "int", I can see the argument regarding the positioning of the i. I suspect that's because I chose to have the larger dot follow the top curve and lean to the left. (It looked much more odd leaning to the right). I think this gives the illusion of the whole thing being more left balanced. I might see about switching it to round towards the left when centering the stem.
The first time I googled monospace fonts, you see, to decide what I wanted to use when I was setting up my first IDE (intelliJ, I think it was), I saw a bunch of images of different fonts, and when I saw the 'l' of DejaVu Sans, my jaw dropped. It was beautiful.
You have that similar style of l. Source Code Pro has it, as does Ubuntu Mono and Menlo. It's that straight notch at the top with the curvy tail at the bottom. I love it. It's kinda quirky but elegant at the same time.
I'm still using DejaVu because many of those other ones have the asterisk symbol appearing too low for my taste.
I like your font. I see what someone else meant when they said it looks kinda 'fun'.
In your screenshot in the top left, I noticed the word 'int' looks a bit wonky. the n and t are kinda leaning into each other, with the i leaning outward. Character balance is a hard thing to achieve, I've read. Keep working on it, it's a very lovely project.