Introducing Operator: H&Co.'s first monospace typeface

http://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator

by gregoire • 10 years ago

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glhaynes• 10 years ago

Wish it were possible to give it a try. They specifically point out usage in a text editor, but not too many developers are going to spend $199 without trying it in their editor first.

WorldMaker• 10 years ago

Also, for that cost I'd love to see it include Fira Code-like ligatures.

kalefranz• 10 years ago

Beautiful font. Wish the pricing model weren't so stratospherically off just to use it in a text editor. "From" $199.

elcct• 10 years ago

To me it looks like a candidate for Comic Sans of monospace fonts. Absolutely awful.

FireBeyond• 10 years ago

The first feeling I got was "Papyrus Code". I see potential, and it's certainly better than anything I could do. I like H&Co's fonts but I'm not really feeling this.

Right now, my terminal/code font of choice is Triplicate (http://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html).

aaroninsf• 10 years ago

Those lower case a's. ZOMG QUIRKY!

Yep. And make me X it out. :(

devrelm• 10 years ago

It's not even the a's. The random cursive letters would drive me mad.

Analemma_• 10 years ago

"Absolutely awful" is stronger language than I would use, but yeah, I'm not feeling it. The 'a', 'c', parentheses, and especially the 's' remind me of lettering you'd see at a cheesy Greek restaurant. I didn't hate the cursive as much as the other replies here though, I think it could be a real benefit if your editor was configured correctly.

nikdaheratik• 10 years ago

Underwhelmed for coding. May be useful for other monospace font needs and/or special use cases (like the Atom editor example on the site).

Introducing Operator: H&Co.'s first monospace typeface

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