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Recursive Mono & Sans is a variable font family for code & UI

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2020-07-24 · latest 2021-12-06

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  1. Recursive Sans Mono, casual or semicasual: https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive
    comment by gedy · 2021-12-06 · in Ask HN: What's your current favorite programming font?
  2. https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/blob/main/OFL.txt says it is the most common open source font license, and allows even commercial use. It can definitely be shipped by distros.
    comment by qart · 2021-03-31 · in Input: Customisable Fonts for Code
  3. My favorite monospaced font is Recursive Mono. https://www.recursive.design/ https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive I am not sure whether this is a actually feature of this font. Some ligatures, like => are only active in comments. It…
    comment by mojolozzo · 2020-11-20 · in Dev Fonts
  4. …but don’t want to mess with OpenType features (or if your code editor doesn’t support that). https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/tree/main/fonts/rec_m... . The issue doesn’t occur in web browsers, as far as I know, as they support…
    comment by thundernixon · 2020-07-24 · in Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
  5. There is a stylistic set which allows you to get an unambiguous 1 vs l (ss05). See: https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive#opentype-features Also, there are fonts made specifically for code which have code ligatures & the simple l, f, 6, &…
    comment by thundernixon · 2020-07-24 · in Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts