The slant and connective distance of the cursive italic l are noticeably different than of the other letters, so every word that includes one is very jarring.

It looks like they naively aligned the slant of the leftmost edge at the mid-height of the glyph, which is not the right way to optically align shapes, especially for a symbol with asymmetric curvature (the leading face of the loop leans substantially more than the trailing face). And then in addition to that, a too-wide arrangement when adjoining ("ul", "ll", etc) causes excess dead space around adjoined pairs.

You see this quite strongly in the "null" that appears on line 5 in their example screenshot. The two "l"s both appear to lean more than the "nu", and the "ul" has more internal space than the "nu", and the "ll" has even more than that.

While we're dropping lesser-known coding fonts, here's my favorite, Lotion [0]. It's cute and playful but also very legible and clean.

[0] https://font.nina.coffee/

What do you like about it? I like that the I and l are distinctive, and of course the distinction between 0 and O. However, there are some nice letter differentiators that it is missing, such as a shorter middle cane in the letter "m" (Ubuntu Mono has this for example).

Checked it out and instantly liked it. Been using Cascadia Code for years. Will give this one a try now. Thank you!

I've been a long time Fira Code user, but recently switched to Maple - I love it. Mostly because of the "single storey" `a`, but that's just a personal preference of mine.

I don’t like it. It looks amateurish in the same way Comic Sans looks to me. I suppose you’d love this if you also enjoy Comic Sans.

Italics turn into cursive... I cannot imagine ever wanting this in my IDE, but that's just me.

> Nice

< Look at the tasteful colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God.

Woa, that's a weird @ in the screenshot in line 6.

Seconding Maple Mono - it's very nice.