Interesting recommendation. I asked around here and turns out one of our designers actually owns the font! I'm going to give it a try for the next hour or so and see if it actually feels different enough for me to consider dropping the $200 on it. As first impression, the font feels "rounder" and I find it a bit harder to read.
Are there any other "non-usual" recommendations for writing code? I remember trying Nitti [0] for a while for, that's the font iA Writer uses.
/edit: After very short usage I already found one thing the author said to be true:
> While using Operator Mono, I found that I scan entire words as I read code more easily; while in other typefaces, my parsing style is often more letter-by-letter.
Not sure why this happens either. Maybe because the font feels more condensed? Single characters almost "merge" into blocks (words). Though it also feels a little bit harder on the eyes to read single characters.
Wow $200 for a font. I don't care how good it is I don't think I could ever justify spending that much.
If you can't afford it, try following alternative
https://medium.com/@docodemore/an-alternative-to-operator-mo...
I also purchased it back when Daring Fireball was recommending it... on a retina display it's nice, but it has its flaws, and the value in my mind for an individual developer for this kind of thing is like $10 if it was on Kickstarter... we don't even pay for our editors!
Real experts in font design, but trying to market to developers... probably a mistake.
There are plenty of mono fonts with italic variants. What distinguishes this font? How easily are the characters distinguished? How does it look under different font engines? What is the optimal size for the font? How much Unicode does it support? How about common digraphs (e.g. Right arrow for =>)?
There are other mono fonts with italic variants. An issue is getting an editor to italicize as part of a highlighting scheme. I've only seen this in Mac vim and intellij but ouldnt be interested to hear about others especially in terminal
Have you tested PragmataPro¹?
Of course a lot of people mention the price immediately. I don't think I'm going to spend that much, but it's not out-of-line with what I'd expect for a font (I've probably never bought one). It's also quite affordable for a professional with disposable cash.
What I think is strange is licensing per-computer. Maybe that's normal for fonts. Seems very stingy to me that I should pay multiple times for laptop/work/home computer.
Office Code Pro, Source Code Pro, Fira Code, Hermit
I don't think the italics match at all. It's like using another font for italics. At least the "s" and "r" just break the with the base-lines and make things weird, why? "l" and "f" to a lesser extend, too.
Great to see praise for Ubuntu Mono font... Whilst it was developed (and funded) for Ubuntu, it is released under a free licence, available on google docs and google fonts.
I'll give Operator Mono a try... but i absolutely love Ubuntu Mono.
I would be curious to know what's the % of users who actually bought the font.
Very good sir! A fine choice to go with your $300 keyboard!
Sorry, but this person's hipster glasses are clouding their judgement. The author enjoys the idea of paying for and using a $200 font way more than he actually enjoys using the font itself. In case you weren't convinced, the whole "I wrote this blog post with a pen" and a picture of their quirky and messy work area with the antique mechanical keyboard....
You are just the worst kind of person, Kenneth.
In case anyone else was looking to vet the entire character set[1].
{I, l, 1}, {Q, O, 0}, {S, 5}, {Z, 2}...if I have to pause even for a second to find confidence, it won't be in editor. Old school MIL-STD-100 and its modern ASME Y14 equivalent were spot on when they expressly prohibited the use of some of these characters as designators in technical drawings.
>> ...using this (beautiful) script typeface for code comments has improved both the quality of tone and frequency of my code annotations — something which I highly value.
Maybe it's just me, but I find it noticeably difficult to parse the italics...suspecting it may have something to do with discontinuity between script characters.
Anyone have an idea who the target market is based on their $200 price point?
[1] http://www.typography.com/fonts/operator/characters/operator...