Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
> <i>a font for programmers, by a programmer</i><p>> <i>Every glyph was carefully planned and calculated, according to defined principles and rules. For this reason, Hermit is coherent and regular.</i><p>I hate to say this, but a font by a programmer makes as much sense as a database library by a font designer. Good font design is not about calculations or following principled rules; it's about what looks good to the eye, and it takes a tremendous amount of skill and experience.<p>And to my eye, at least, the font is incredibly difficult to read. It literally looks like a font designed by an engineer for a plotter, not something designed for the human eye or legibility.<p>Good fonts follow intuitive rhythms, they focus on word shapes (not just letter shapes), natural curves, there's a tremendous amount of subtlety that goes into achieving a proper sense of balance between letterforms, and a lot of things are actually <i>different</i> between letters/curves/etc. so that they <i>look</i> the same to the eye in the end. Even with "utilitarian" fonts like monospace ones.<p>"Carefully planned and calculated" is a great recipe for building a bridge, but not for building a font, unfortunately.