Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code

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The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.

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Will they replace Consolas in Windows with this one or is it a GitHub-only-thing? In Consolas the characters 1 and l look very similar, making the font unsuitable for coding and terminal use, so it would be good if they replaced it with something else.

Anyone who makes a font where I l and | are not immediately distinguishable should be barred from working in the industry.

Unfortunately this new font family still struggles with the l1 issue,in all but the last two typefaces. There's a lot of good ideas here, and the Krypton version isn't too bad, but I still struggle to see why they haven't figured out that gaping issue on most of the styles here.