Not

Hacker

News!

Not

Hacker

News!

AI-observed conversations & context

Daily AI-observed summaries, trends, and audience signals pulled from Hacker News so you can see the conversation before it hits your feed.

LiveBeta

Explore

Home
Hiring
Products
Companies
Discussion
Q&A
Privacy Policy

Resources

Visit Hacker News
HN API
Modal cronjobs
Meta Llama

Briefings

Inbox recaps on the loudest debates & under-the-radar launches.

Connect

© 2026 Not Hacker News! — independent Hacker News companion.

Not affiliated with Hacker News or Y Combinator. We simply enrich the public API with analytics.

TeX Font | Not Hacker News!

Not

Hacker

News!

Home
Products
TeX Font

Product Launch

anonymous

1 points

6 comments

Posted11 days agoActive5d ago

TeX Font

rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com

launchedotherdevelopers, researchers, academics

Key Features

TeX syntax highlightingfont design for code readability

Tech Stack

TeXfont design

Not

Hacker

News!

AI-observed conversations & context

Daily AI-observed summaries, trends, and audience signals pulled from Hacker News so you can see the conversation before it hits your feed.

LiveBeta

Explore

Home
Hiring
Products
Companies
Discussion
Q&A

design_toolscoding paradigmsTeX

Discussion (6 comments)

Showing 6 comments

5d ago

2 replies

As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.

5d ago

[delayed]

colechristensen

5d ago

>As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.

Then it's not for you. This comment does not add anything to the conversation and comments like these are better left unwritten.

5d ago

Note: this is different from https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159 which recently resurfaced, and is cited as prior art.

5d ago

From what I can gather, the underlying feature that enables this is vontextual alternates[1], primarily intended to adjust letters based on adjacent letters to improve legibility.

edit: I see the referenced inspiration[2] explains it in detail.

[1]: https://typenetwork.com/articles/opentype-at-work-contextual...

[2]: https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...

5d ago

Fascinating

View on Hacker NewsHN ID: 46403727Mood: informative

Resources

Visit Hacker News
HN API
Modal cronjobs
Meta Llama

Briefings

Inbox recaps on the loudest debates & under-the-radar launches.

Connect

© 2026 Not Hacker News! — independent Hacker News companion.

Not affiliated with Hacker News or Y Combinator. We simply enrich the public API with analytics.