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Not really a criticism and just an observation, but you can tell this page was written by a programmer because the section called "What does it look like?" is about what the code looks like, not the font itself.

I realize the page's text is in the font, but often there's a sample that shows what all the common characters look like and in different variations (like regular and bold). Which is what I expected when I read that section title.



I think they were just using the source code as an example of the font since one of the most likely uses of this font is programming.


Monospaced fonts are for programmers.


Unless that programmer is Rob Pike. (See the acme editor: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Acme.png)


Who haven’t experimented with proportional fonts for coding yet.


would you mind expanding on this?



You don’t even need those these days as most format guidelines (Eg at Google) disallow ascii art.


I mean, if I'm looking for a monospace font, I'm probably either in a terminal or writing some code. If I'm trying to create a beautiful document, I'll probably use some variably-spaced thing inside LaTeX or something. I think showing me a big sample of code is genuinely the most useful way for me to get a "feel" for how the font is going to perform.




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