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This is a beautiful looking font and I could definitely see myself adopting it when typing papers.

I'd love to use it in my terminal, but my only problem is the zero isn't dotted or slashed. My terminal font is stupid-small (I think 10pt), and the 0 and O looking similar has bitten me in code a few times.

Well, shit...

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Here's a programmer font intended to be very legible at 10pt http://www.arcavia.com/kyle/Software/ProgFont/index.html However, he accomplishes that feat by redesigning some english letters.

What are you talking about? This font is a disaster, everything looks the same.

I've seen some shit fonts but this one...

April was quite a long time back...

Man, that is exactly the first thing I did as well. Lets hope they release a 'mono' version soon

There is a monospaced version, scroll down... http://mozilla.github.io/Fira/

According to this page there is one:

- http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os/...

It looks like it's included in the zip files when you download it at the bottom.

There is already one. And it has a 0 dotted.

Good catch on the dotted zero.

The spacing is weird, I'll give it a shot and see if I like it.

I really don't like the lower case "r" in the monospace font. It looks almost like a small capital I (the serif portion on the upper left is almost equal in size to the right section of the arc).

I like the rest of it, but the r is pretty distracting.

Agreed. The "r" looks heavier weight than the others to me. (Though I can't be sure if I'm only noticing because you mentioned.)

I definitely noticed this independently and came here--Is it normal to mix a couple serif-like characters into an otherwise sans mono font?

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