Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders(geonot.github.io)
10 points by wildlogic 12 hours ago | 8 comments
- okayishdefaults 5 hours agoI'm unsure if "no descenders" provides increased clarity. For example, lowercase q is easy to recognize because your eyes are already drawn to it being one of few characters that descend. In the case of this font, you have a small uppercase Q as the lowercase q. This feels like it accomplishes the opposite of this stated benefit.
- kurtis_reed 10 hours agoWhat's the benefit of no descenders?
- lhmiles 8 hours agoCool! I love it! To really show it off you could compare yours vs a regular one with line height = 0.9 or something
- jiehong 5 hours agoAncient Latin and Ancient Greek also did just that: lowercase didn’t exist yet.
Makes me want to try and write code in uppercase only (or not).
I like the theme of the website, though!
- treetalker 4 hours agoThe qu i ck brown f ox jumps over the lazy do 9
- wildlogic 12 hours agoHey, this is my first font design, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks.[-]
- JSR_FDED 6 hours agoLove how legible this is. Exactly how my brain (trained on 8-bit micros) expects a font to look!
- whiterook6 7 hours agoIt's very nice, but why? The lack of descenders makes it slightly harder to read. More of the letters look the same.