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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure, I could get used to it. But it being more readable is not even true for me, because the thing I got used to instead, is that != is the unequals-operator. I see that much more often than .

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Studies show that ligatures improve readability, but I acknowledge that it's likely untrue for outliers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

For monospace fonts? I've heard of such research for proportional fonts, where ligatures definitely make sense to me. But yeah, I wouldn't assume such research to automatically translate to monospace.