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Comment by throwaway102233 | Hacker News Reader

I've been using Berkeley Mono [0] since it got released, it's a paid font which would normally be a no go for me, however the author is super responsive, and the font looks wonderful on my devices, so happy to support it.

Ligature support is coming soon also))

[0] https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono

(in hindsight it may look weird that I'm endorsing this from a throwaway - old habits die hard I guess...)

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Thanks. We'll do ligatures, but it won't be like anything else out there.

> There is an unspoken expectation that 1 key press = 1 symbol printed on the screen. That shouldn't be violated in our view. A lot of our customers have requested ligatures, so we're working on them. But it will be anything but typical in Berkeley Mono.

https://twitter.com/berkeleygfx/status/1515047847506325508

Why does this font have at least 3 different zeroes? It doesn't seem consistent and creates additional confusion between alpha O and number 0.

You can choose which zero you want when you download the font package. What's inconsistent about this?

I didn’t realize you could choose a particular consistent zero. I just kept seeing arbitrary zeroes on subsequent lines of one single example text block without that context.

Ah I see.

If you scroll further down the page, you'll see there are actually 4 zeroes you can choose from and 2 sevens.

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