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Wow screenshots of text rendered on a notoriously bad text renderer, then downscaled and posted in a blog. A text-based description of the fonts might be worse, but only barely.

Yeah, man, so much effort and every screenshot looks identical in context in the blog post.

Iosevka and Iosevka-Comfy for the win.

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Click on the images to embiggen.

You probably meant 'enlarge'. "Embiggen" was made up by the simpsons as a joke.

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

In the same episode as that other word - amazing

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Anyone can embiggen me any time they want.

All words in use today were made up at some point and then accepted through popular use. Merriam-Webster accepted this one into their dictionary some years ago.[1]

And Dictionary.com acknowledges it may have been published previously in 1884 by C.A. Ward as an example of a barbarous verb.[2][3]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen

[2] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/embiggen

[3] https://academic.oup.com/nq/article-abstract/s6-X/242/135/43...

You understood the meaning well enough, which is the purpose of a word. Perhaps you need to embiggen your perspective.

I tried Iosevka but it felt too much like the bitmap ROM fonts on old computers and terminals. All those fonts were a little too pixel-dense.

That may be why it -- and Envy Code R -- are the only "modern" monospace fonts I can stand for very long. Everything else just looks like IBM Letter Gothic, or some other typewriter vendor's substitute for Letter Gothic. Hence why I use bitmap or bitmap-like fonts for terminals.

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