On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 4:47 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
> > On 2021-04-03, at 12:55 PM, Vanessa Freudenberg <vanessa at codefrau.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > IMHO (speaking as a typo nerd) this is due to our default code font not
> having distinct enough letter shapes. I very much like our use of a
> proportional font, but maybe it's time to switch to a different one?
>
> I din't think it's anything to do with proprtional fonts per se,


Only insofar as that I do not know a single proportional font that has been
optimized for coding, as opposed to dozens of monospaced fonts (there is
Input Sans, granted, but that looks very much monospaced with only a few
adjustments).

I bet choosing the right glyph variants in some proportional font would
help.

Tobi suggested Fira Sans, and while I like Spiekermann fonts in general and
Fira Sans in particular, the rendering of e.g. ":=" is atrocious, because
that combination just does not happen in "normal" text.

- Vanessa -
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