spleen VS ligature.el

If it helps, these days I disable anti-aliasing (all hinting actually) and use a bitmap font such as Spleen. Not particularly pretty but very easy and crisp on the eyes.

It reminds me more of Spleen, but it's not it either

>the font is Spleen

Spleen

Your font is cool, ignore the downvotes. It reminds me a bit of the default console font on OpenBSD, Spleen [1].

[1] https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/

The Spleen font has, among other sizes, the 5x8, which is pretty similar. It's the default for OpenBSD drm console, although using a different size. It's constantly being updated.

https://github.com/fcambus/spleen

OpenBSD's default console font Spleen has a 5x8 version which, which is fairly legible while still looking nice:

https://github.com/fcambus/spleen

Any smaller than that and you're getting into ugly territory.

Are you familiar with the Spleen font? It’s very readable at 5x8 pixels and combines full ASCII support with things like box-drawing characters.

Apparently "smart kerning" uses the ligatures mechanism. I use Mickey Peterson's ligature.el package for ligatures support. To get the smart kerning to work I added more ligatures by hand using this package. For example the website shows the effect when you type "Moi": the "o" will shift a bit away from the "M" when you type the "i". To get that to work I added a "Moi" ligature:

It sounds like you might want ligatures? I use ligature.el but it only works on emacs version 28+.

I'm using use-package as my package manager and the package ligature for the ligatures.

https://github.com/mickeynp/ligature.el will do it, but there are specific emacs version requirements and you have to enumerate all of the possible ligatures in your config. They have some examples of configuration for various popular programming ligature fonts.

Version 28 finally includes a necessary patch that has freed up ligatures. ligature.el seems to be the winning implementation.

There's a package called "ligature.el" that only works on Emacs V28+ https://github.com/mickeynp/ligature.el

> Is that the only way, or is there a way to disable ligatures but keep the rest of the font?

It's actually not that easy to use them with for example Emacs where you have to list every combination that you want to 'translate' to a ligature:

https://github.com/mickeynp/ligature.el

ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a single character ej, => transforms to arrow. emacs version and font used must support this to use it. GitHub - mickeynp/ligature.el: Display typographical ligatures in Emacs

I don't really use any sort of symbol mode very often but when I do I much prefer using ligature.el with Fira Code.