Mitchell Hashimoto

why am I thinking about this? Uh, because yeah, it feels like something that OS should do for me. And so that was, that was sort of the first challenge.

why am I thinking about this? Uh, because yeah, it feels like something that OS should do for me. And so that was, that was sort of the first challenge.

I don't know how they do it, but they, they tend to use, uh, I think, I think they probably hard code. Uh, Menlo. Yeah. Is it Menlo? Yeah. Um, I think they just use the, the like Apple, like usual one. And that, so Apple's kind of easy because Apple does, they solve some of that problem.

I don't know how they do it, but they, they tend to use, uh, I think, I think they probably hard code. Uh, Menlo. Yeah. Is it Menlo? Yeah. Um, I think they just use the, the like Apple, like usual one. And that, so Apple's kind of easy because Apple does, they solve some of that problem.

Yeah. And you could always, Apple's easy because there's so much homogeneity across the platforms. Right. You could kind of just say, I'm going to do whatever Apple does. Linux is the really hard one. Okay. So what do you do? Basically, I look for, obviously, monospace font. That's an easy one. And then I look for one that has ASCII characters.

Yeah. And you could always, Apple's easy because there's so much homogeneity across the platforms. Right. You could kind of just say, I'm going to do whatever Apple does. Linux is the really hard one. Okay. So what do you do? Basically, I look for, obviously, monospace font. That's an easy one. And then I look for one that has ASCII characters.

And then I look for one that has more ASCII characters than anyone else. And then, you know, I sort of just apply the scoring algorithm to it.

And then I look for one that has more ASCII characters than anyone else. And then, you know, I sort of just apply the scoring algorithm to it.

If it has emoji within it, it's even better because it's likely the font designer made them work together. So I tend to score things with more glyphs in it higher. If it has more faces, so if it has italic and bold as well, then it gets scored higher than something that only has a regular. So yeah, you just apply all this scoring to it and hope for the best.

If it has emoji within it, it's even better because it's likely the font designer made them work together. So I tend to score things with more glyphs in it higher. If it has more faces, so if it has italic and bold as well, then it gets scored higher than something that only has a regular. So yeah, you just apply all this scoring to it and hope for the best.

And so far, the beta community has felt...

And so far, the beta community has felt...

pretty good about it did you consider just getting opinionated and just packaging your favorite one and saying like this is ghosty's default is this i do i do actually um but i do as well i do as well so we if i don't find basically a font that i'm satisfied with then we fall back to using the packaged font which is jetbrains mono um with nerd fonts already applied great choice thank you thank you it's it's

pretty good about it did you consider just getting opinionated and just packaging your favorite one and saying like this is ghosty's default is this i do i do actually um but i do as well i do as well so we if i don't find basically a font that i'm satisfied with then we fall back to using the packaged font which is jetbrains mono um with nerd fonts already applied great choice thank you thank you it's it's

all of the defaults of ghosty for the most part are the ones that i would use and so yeah but yeah so we do that as well because there are in particular a really problematic area of linux is there's a lot of installations of linux that don't have emojis for example and so we we package an emoji font so that emojis just work out of the box again these are things that don't happen on closed apple computers but online we have to think quite a lot about yeah

all of the defaults of ghosty for the most part are the ones that i would use and so yeah but yeah so we do that as well because there are in particular a really problematic area of linux is there's a lot of installations of linux that don't have emojis for example and so we we package an emoji font so that emojis just work out of the box again these are things that don't happen on closed apple computers but online we have to think quite a lot about yeah

I don't personally love. I don't think they look that good. Yeah, same. So I wish that Apple would license their Apple emoji so that it could be used cross-platform, but you can't. Legally, you can't. There's people online, obviously, who have pulled it out. You can find them, yes. Yeah, so you could find it, but as a... As a distributor of software, I cannot.

I don't personally love. I don't think they look that good. Yeah, same. So I wish that Apple would license their Apple emoji so that it could be used cross-platform, but you can't. Legally, you can't. There's people online, obviously, who have pulled it out. You can find them, yes. Yeah, so you could find it, but as a... As a distributor of software, I cannot.

One of my favorite things I tell people when they ask more and more about fonts is the best source of figuring out how to do anything is...

One of my favorite things I tell people when they ask more and more about fonts is the best source of figuring out how to do anything is...