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=== Qualities / Features
- Crisp, clear characters at all font sizes (Humanist (realist?))
- Especially optimized for 8-14pt
- Extended character set
- Good use of whitespace
- 'l', 'I', '1', and 'i' are easily distinguished
- '0', 'O', 'o' easily distinguished
- No two glyphs the same (quotes, etc.)
- Forward and back quotes easily distinguished (usually mirrorred)
- Clear punctuation and brackets
- Good balanced density
- CamelCase etc. look good
- All caps words look good
- Pseudo-box characters work correctly: =-_+/|` etc.
- Great brackets and punctuation
- Great unicode glyphs for mathematics, greek, etc.
- Correct single/double-width characters if possible (so they work great in
vim, terminals, etc.)
=== Guides
- Looks good compared to monaco and inconsolata
- Variety with Coherence
- Ubuntu, Inconsolata, Monaco...
- Look at glyphs from other languages for inspiration
- If possible, be programatic, ala metafont
=== Distribution
- All formats
- Include in google web fonts
- No spaces in name for easy configuration in various systems
Like rondalo, but monospace & good densities.