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lygaret · 2016-11-16 21:41:57

Thanks for the recommendation! going to swap it in as a replacement for Fira Mono for a while, see how it feels.

threatofrain | karma 12160 | avg karma 2.69 · | 2020-01-15 14:15:56

In contrast to Operator Mono I'd also advise peeking at Fantasque Sans Mono and Victor Mono as Operator-lites.

bobbylarrybobby | karma 3421 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2023-07-12 11:13:48

Agree, if Commit Mono had a narrow width, it'd replace Iosevka for me in a heartbeat

3zzy | karma 3 | avg karma 0.18 · | 2015-08-31 07:32:19+00:00

Me too. I used Consolas, but I absolutely love Roboto Mono now.

rmah | karma 7252 | avg karma 6.11 · | 2011-01-25 20:42:43+00:00

andale mono ftw, baby!

lightyrs | karma 612 | avg karma 2.79 · | 2012-07-19 11:50:14

I love Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Looks great at large sizes too!

Yahivin | karma 790 | avg karma 3.33 · | 2023-01-12 17:16:16

Monorepos are great! They're so good one place I worked at had dozens of them.

davalapar | karma 87 | avg karma 5.12 · | 2020-01-15 15:55:30+00:00

Hmmm I got bad eyes that makes me hate consolas, looks like a good contender to operator mono, will give this one a shot.

assemble | karma 67 | avg karma 0.89 · | 2011-06-07 13:14:01+00:00

Thank you! I've been looking for something else ever since Readbility switched to their newer, heavier, slower version.

m3Lith | karma 88 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2017-03-23 18:11:16+00:00

For using with FF, I'd recommend KeeFox.

callalex | karma 5040 | avg karma 2.64 · | 2023-11-06 11:20:50

Monoprice mostly fits your description.

tokipin | karma 1062 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2008-07-24 20:28:16

Andale Mono for me. it's very "lightweight" and beautiful. i would use Courier New generally, but after using Andale, it's surprising how heavy and hard to parse Courier is

Ataraxy | karma 204 | avg karma 1.19 · | 2019-11-20 04:45:51

I'm a huge fan of my Corne (crkbd for those looking it up) also and I agree with everything you've said here.

In fact I'm even thinking of building one with the outer columns chopped off if I can get a bit more used to chording.

It didn't at all take me long to get used to the 40%, the split boards, or the column stagger after using a 60% for years and I was quickly back up to ~100wpm in about a week. This was my first time with the three. Most of all, I'm never going back to a non split if I have a choice.

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52-6F-62 | karma 6159 | avg karma 1.93 · | 2019-09-01 20:56:58+00:00

There’s also Monoprice.

klenwell | karma 5341 | avg karma 6.31 · | 2018-11-19 17:53:21+00:00

That looks ideal. I've added it to my shopping list. Thanks for the detailed response!

lhl | karma 3424 | avg karma 3.84 · | 2020-07-23 04:22:07

For those interested in this or the Tuxedo Pulse 15 or Schenker VIA 15 Pro (all based off of the same barebones TongFang PF5NU1G), I have one and I’ve been doing a pretty thorough review here: https://www.notion.so/lhl/Mechrevo-Code-01-TongFang-PF5NU1G-...

Nabi | karma 13 | avg karma 0.68 · | 2020-04-06 18:00:20+00:00

Thanks! Haven’t heard about it before, will check. Although I’v heard about Elk - looks like by the same guys. Recently started playing around with Bela as it has Eurorack kits.

tornato7 | karma 1658 | avg karma 2.73 · | 2022-11-25 02:06:52

Monoprice is excellent as well

sanderjd | karma 14921 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2015-08-24 16:31:21+00:00

Thanks for doing my googling for me. Clearly the last time I really gave it a go was more on the Squeak side than Pharo, which looks pretty great.

sebastianconcpt | karma 1922 | avg karma 1.27 · | 2019-11-06 16:26:10

I use a Herman Miller Mirra 2. It's fantastic.