[1] https://www.paratype.com/fonts/pt/yefimov-sans?tab=gallery
I couldn't tell you why, but reading code feels much, much more natural with it than with most other fonts.
Perhaps it's the high degree of separation because every character looks meaningfully different?
The "kerning" (or whatever the visual space between letters is called in monospace fonts) is also among the best.
Ah, thanks for that. I wasn't brave enough! I was using the Duotone version (normal version is Linear, while italics and bold are Casual). Indeed I'm happier with everything being Casual.
You'll find it more accessible via METAPOST, and there have been font designs made using it. Better starting link is:
https://davidcarlisle.github.io/uk-tex-faq/FAQ-mfptutorials....
Prof. Hermann Zapf's eponymous Zapfino has the latter --- I even included an animation of it in my paper on it:
It was a fun paper to write, but came a bit too late to have any influence --- at the same conference Jonathan Kew presented XeTeX and shortly thereafter luatex was developed, so it ceased to be necessary to stitch together hundreds of .eps files to make a possibly several GB PostScript file which then had to be distilled to a PDF using the commercial Adobe Acrobat.
This font, however, is by far the most beautiful one I've encountered yet.
The distribution of mentions of Comic Sans in the article is revealing: there are a bunch of mentions at around the 30% mark (in which they acknowledge the obvious heritage), and then barely after that. This font really does go further. Beautiful!
[0] https://www.recursive.design
[1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Recursive?preview.script=L...
Having said that -- the speciifc image showing difference between this font and Roboto -- uses a lower contrast for Roboto -- which surely has an effect on its readability?
I wish they showed a more direct comparison without changing the contrast to introduce an extra element.
superb.
totally usable in contexts where comic sans might be seen as kind of mocking.
In an increasingly sterile and AI world, is a human centric approach a good thing albeit possibly unprofessional by current standards?
It'd be great if say Mozilla Firefox included this font natively (for the app itself). Then again, the default is currently Times New Roman...