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While this is nice, I'm gonna take the opportunity to plug Commit Mono because it's my favorite monospace font https://commitmono.com/.

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Thanks for mentioning it! First time I heard about Commit Mono. The first paragraph already had me wondering how a monospace font can read this well.

Turns out it has smart kerning, ie. character positions are subtly adjusted to compensate for different character widths. For example, i is narrow and m is wide. That causes words like "commit" to look bad in standard monospace fonts. The m's in the middle are very densely spaced and there are wide gaps around the i.

I'll be testing Commit Mono in my editors. Maybe it will even make me switch SilverBullet back to a monospace config.

Wow this is highly legible, my eyes and brain really like this. I think I’ll start using it actually.

I don't know if there is some sarcasm here. I was intrigued by the "smart kerning" feature mentioned but with both that very low contrast ratio and the small text size, I can't really see a thing on that website.

Press or click "C" for high contrast and "+" for zoom.

No sarcasm here haha, I see what you mean though now that I look at it

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