<story><title>Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple&apos;s SF Mono, and CLIs</title><url>https://servermono.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>So, if you&amp;#x27;re going to demonstrate the box drawing characters — and in a monospaced font, I would — they should line up?&lt;p&gt;E.g., under &amp;quot;lines&amp;quot;, the rows are overlapping; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;KnOP2Wu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;KnOP2Wu.png&lt;/a&gt; ; I would think they&amp;#x27;re only supposed to just touch, with no gap, no overlap.&lt;p&gt;The boxes, similarly, don&amp;#x27;t quite line up right. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;6pVYh9a.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;6pVYh9a.png&lt;/a&gt; (Even the 100% box isn&amp;#x27;t lining up right, although somehow what FF screenshotted != what it rendered. &lt;i&gt;sigh.&lt;/i&gt;) The point being, you want these to tile seamlessly. Oddly, they tile &lt;i&gt;differently&lt;/i&gt; in the pictures-of-font that break up the page. (Which I&amp;#x27;m not sure what they&amp;#x27;re supposed to be? One is called &amp;quot;5af1d7a5-fa60-4827-9b4f-808cdb635d59&amp;quot; and has no alt text. They remind me of Dwarf Fortress though.)&lt;p&gt;As other people hint, this seems like the line height is cramped. I&amp;#x2F;l&amp;#x2F;1 ambiguities is a deal breaker for any terminal font, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>worewood</author><text>Number One, Pipe Character, lower case L, upper case I, zero and O, Parentheses and Brackets, are so common pain points on coding and terminal fonts. Those should be painfully distinct.</text></comment>
<story><title>Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple&apos;s SF Mono, and CLIs</title><url>https://servermono.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>So, if you&amp;#x27;re going to demonstrate the box drawing characters — and in a monospaced font, I would — they should line up?&lt;p&gt;E.g., under &amp;quot;lines&amp;quot;, the rows are overlapping; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;KnOP2Wu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;KnOP2Wu.png&lt;/a&gt; ; I would think they&amp;#x27;re only supposed to just touch, with no gap, no overlap.&lt;p&gt;The boxes, similarly, don&amp;#x27;t quite line up right. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;6pVYh9a.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;6pVYh9a.png&lt;/a&gt; (Even the 100% box isn&amp;#x27;t lining up right, although somehow what FF screenshotted != what it rendered. &lt;i&gt;sigh.&lt;/i&gt;) The point being, you want these to tile seamlessly. Oddly, they tile &lt;i&gt;differently&lt;/i&gt; in the pictures-of-font that break up the page. (Which I&amp;#x27;m not sure what they&amp;#x27;re supposed to be? One is called &amp;quot;5af1d7a5-fa60-4827-9b4f-808cdb635d59&amp;quot; and has no alt text. They remind me of Dwarf Fortress though.)&lt;p&gt;As other people hint, this seems like the line height is cramped. I&amp;#x2F;l&amp;#x2F;1 ambiguities is a deal breaker for any terminal font, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LoganDark</author><text>They do line up, if you install and use the OTF version:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;N2tNaiO&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;N2tNaiO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;although some characters still seem to be missing, most of them work as intended.&lt;p&gt;edit: nevermind, looks like it was using Lucida Sans instead! what is going on? does the OTF only include ASCII or something?</text></comment>