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Raph Levien
Personal blog · levien.comprogrammingdesignmath
Raph Levien's personal blog at levien.com covers programming, design and math. Since 2007, 75 different Hacker News readers have linked it 112 times, most often “Inconsolata -- a humanist sans design free programmmer font”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Inconsolata -- a humanist sans design free programmmer font23 people · 23 mentions · first linked 2007-04-07
- Inconsolata14 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2011-09-14
- /phd/thesis.pdf4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-05-11
- /phd/phd.html3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-02-19
- /phd/thesis.pdf3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-20
- /free/tmetric-HOWTO.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-04-25
- The decommoditization of protocols (1998)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2007-12-15
- /type/myfonts/inconsolata.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-22
- /phd/phd.html2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-03-21
- /spiro/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-03-05
What Hacker News says?
Output dependent feedback is another good way to get creamy, evenly dispersed dots in highlight and shadow areas: https://levien.com/output_dependent_feedback.pdf
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on “Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering”Submitted Inconsolata as a story · 156 points
HN discussionAnd Sodipodi started as a fork of Gill: https://www.levien.com/svg/ Here is the “Secret Origin of SVG” per the W3C: https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Secret_Origin_of_SVG
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on “Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate”Submitted The Decommoditization of Protocols (1998) as a story · 92 points
HN discussionI've been a happy Inconsolata user for years. It looks great, characters are unique, and it stays out of the way. https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
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on “Dev Fonts”Submitted The decommoditization of protocols (1998) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
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on “Spark”Submitted The Decommoditization of Protocols (1998) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI came to Mac OS recently from Linux and while I like Menlo, I found myself quickly going back to Inconsolata[1], which is really great for long coding hours, and works especially well for me with the dark solarized color scheme. [1]: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
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on “Hack: A typeface designed for source code”Submitted Inconsolata -- a humanist sans design free programmmer font as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI like Inconsolata[1] a lot. I prefer the version of Inconsolata with straight quotes[2]. [1]: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html [2]: http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...
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on “Hack: A typeface designed for source code”Submitted Inconsolata as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRaph Levien wrote the original Gzilla browser of which Dillo was forked in late 1999: http://www.levien.com/gzilla/
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on “Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser”Submitted The decommoditization of protocols (1998) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNote that raphlinus is … the creator of Inconsolata ( https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html )! FWIW, I really like Source Code Pro — it's my default font everywhere. Inconsolata is nice, too, but I like the little hook on the lowercase 'l' in SCP. Also, SCP abbreviates to the name of a Unix command, which is cool
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on “B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens”Submitted Patents available to GNU GPL licensed software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI used an array of lines in gzilla[0]. It's not bad, but it _is_ exporting details of the representation up to clients, which gets worse once you add some hierarchy. To me, the nice thing about ropes is that they appear to the client as just a string, with some fancy added methods such as creating a cursor that can advance to the next or previous line efficiently. Of course, to make this work, you need a good progra…
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on “Rope Science – Computer science concepts behind the Xi editor”Submitted Inconsolata - a monospace font, designed for code listings in print as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI started something along those lines: https://levien.com/tmp/tractatus.html
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on “All of Wittgenstein is now public domain”Submitted The decommoditization of protocols as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere's a downloadable demo here: https://levien.com/spiro/
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on “Show HN: A new spline”Looks like Inconsolata [1] to me. The slashes are set slightly higher than the pipe, the asterisk is vertically center-aligned (as opposed to super-positioned as with Consolas, Monaco, Vera Sans Mono and others), a distinctive upward curve on its lowercase 'y', and it has a looptail lowercase 'g'. [1] - http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
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on “A better git log”If you want a free clone then Inconsolata is pretty good (and open source, hence improvable): http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
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on “Mozilla's New Fira Typeface”Inconsolata own explaination is here (to contrast with OP) http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html Similar goals, but different philosophies.
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on “Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer”FYI Inconsolata was (also) designed by a programmer: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html It has a very different look and feel though.
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on “Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer”Looks interesting. Really wish I could download it now. I definitely want to see it when it's done, but how will know when that is? If I had even a beta version to play with I'm much more likely to remember to check for updates later. That said, I'm really happy to see more programming fonts! I love Inconsolata[1] and used to use it for everything. However, recently I've been using Source Code Pro[2] and can't break…
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on “Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer”dillo-0.1.0 release notes from March 2000: > * Changed the licence to GPL. (Raph agreed on that) So it's probably just a typo in the article. Intended point is that the license was changed from Gzilla's private copyright notice[1] to the GPL of the time, which would probably be v2. Nonetheless Dillo's code is also licensed under GPLv3 now. 1: https://levien.com/gzilla/Copying.txt
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on “25 Years of Dillo”The specific thing I've found least documented, yet most important for the distinctive percussive attacks of the DX7, is a random variation of the pitch envelope for the first few milliseconds of the note. That's almost short enough it could be done in the firmware, but I believe it might be in the hardware. It's not present in the msfa source, but might have been recovered by later Dexed authors (I haven't carefull…
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on “The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered”Check out Raph Levien's thesis: http://levien.com/phd/phd.html It doesn't talk about dynamically varying stiffness along the curve, but is otherwise a very detailed dive into splines.
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on “Drawing better-looking Bézier curves”Raph Levien's thesis is great, http://www.levien.com/phd/phd.html
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on “Drawing better-looking Bézier curves”
