What is your absolute favorite monospaced font?
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@afreytes It depends on what I'm using it for, but there's a monospace version of OpenDyslexic that I bet you haven't tried.
@howtophil YES!
Yes, I Have!
But!,,,
Not on any of my Linux machines, and frankly I had forgotten about it so I thank you for reminding me!
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@howtophil YES!
Yes, I Have!
But!,,,
Not on any of my Linux machines, and frankly I had forgotten about it so I thank you for reminding me!
@afreytes You can also convert ebooks/epubs using Calibre and have it as the font for the books (embedded in the epub). Lets me read faster without losing any comprehension. Also helps me speed-read faster... losing about the same level of comprehension because I need to practice speed-reading more
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@wilson This is my current favorite. But I admit I have not used it on any of my Linux machines.
I will correct that soon.
Thank you!
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@afreytes You can also convert ebooks/epubs using Calibre and have it as the font for the books (embedded in the epub). Lets me read faster without losing any comprehension. Also helps me speed-read faster... losing about the same level of comprehension because I need to practice speed-reading more
@howtophil Yes, I feel like this is precisely how I first encountered the whole OpenDyslexic fonttype.
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@howtophil YES!
Yes, I Have!
But!,,,
Not on any of my Linux machines, and frankly I had forgotten about it so I thank you for reminding me!
@afreytes Also, here's me playing Zork in frotz in an OpenDyslexic Mono in green in the terminal
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What is your absolute favorite monospaced font?
I would like to try it! (if I have never used it...)
@afreytes Amiga Topaz 11 (NOT Topaz 8, that's ugly). Use with square pixel aspect ratio.
Second favorite is C64 ROM font, with NTSC pixel aspect ratio (7:9 tall pixels).
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@afreytes Amiga Topaz 11 (NOT Topaz 8, that's ugly). Use with square pixel aspect ratio.
Second favorite is C64 ROM font, with NTSC pixel aspect ratio (7:9 tall pixels).
@isaackuo I still sometimes configure whatever terminal to have the C64 font and the blue on blue colorway.
I will have to try the Amiga font, which I'm almost sure I have never actually used.
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@ralfmaximus It looks like there is: https://github.com/ashjoubert/HackSlash
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@ralfmaximus It looks like there is: https://github.com/ashjoubert/HackSlash
Oh that is lovely! Thank you.
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What is your absolute favorite monospaced font?
I would like to try it! (if I have never used it...)
@afreytes Monaspace! It’s very clever, its monospaced but uses OpenType to set glyph widths so that the overall tone of type looks even. I use it as the text face on my blog.
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What is your absolute favorite monospaced font?
I would like to try it! (if I have never used it...)
@afreytes Code Page 437
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What is your absolute favorite monospaced font?
I would like to try it! (if I have never used it...)
@afreytes
Julia!Julia Mono https://juliamono.netlify.app/
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@afreytes
Julia!Julia Mono https://juliamono.netlify.app/
@cordelya oh, looks neat, and I've never used it before.
Will definitely try it. Thanks!
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What is your absolute favorite monospaced font?
I would like to try it! (if I have never used it...)
Thanks everyone for the recommendations!
Except for the Amiga.Topaz.11, I have all of these in my download folder as we speak, and I will be trying them out in the following weeks.
Thanks again, much obliged.
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What is your absolute favorite monospaced font?
I would like to try it! (if I have never used it...)
@afreytes Comic Mono. I actually like Comic Sans due in part to fond childhood associations with The Sims, on top of that one Vsauce video, though Comic Mono is definitely noticeably removed from Sans.
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@afreytes Comic Mono. I actually like Comic Sans due in part to fond childhood associations with The Sims, on top of that one Vsauce video, though Comic Mono is definitely noticeably removed from Sans.
@lepidotos I don't hate Comic Sans... or Papyrus!
I feel like both have been bullied, and are perhaps victims of their own success, so to speak.
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I'm writing this in English.
Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.
This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.
@Gargron@mastodon.social argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.
For many of us, translation is first about access.
The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.
@Gargron@mastodon.social notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.
There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.
I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @Gargron@mastodon.social describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.
The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.
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