Cousine is similar to Nitti Light, though it’s thicker, less crisp, and less detailed. Google Fonts offers the Cousine typeface, designed by Steve Matteson, for free. However, there is hope for those on a budget. That’s more expensive than BBEdit itself! The bad news is that it costs €59, which as of this writing is nearly $78. However, you can purchase the Nitti Light typeface yourself from Bold Monday. No options, few features, and there’s no way you can use Solarized with it. You may not agree with them, but in the endless arguments over which font is “best” for writing, they have a lot of Long story short, Information Architects chose Nitti Light because they believe it maximizes readability, and sets the proper tone for users writing a first draft. While that’s an opinionated choice, a lot of thought went into it, as is evident if you read the company’s 2,400-word thesis on the matter. The app has no options, so you’re stuck with writing in Nitti Light. The Nitti Light typeface was popularized by the minimalist iA Writer text editor for iOS and Mac, developed by Information Architects. (Be sure to look at the Read Me files for each app for installation instructions.) A few apps also have built-in Solarized themes, such as the Ulysses III writer’s environment for the Mac, the Writing Kit Markdown text editor for the iPad, and the iPad RSS reader Mr. Included in the package are themes for BBEdit, Vim, Emacs, TextMate, Terminal, and even a palette for Photoshop so you can create your own designs. You can download preconfigured Solarized themes for many popular apps from Schoonover’s site. Solarized smooths out the transitions between colors and brightness, while still making individual elements, like markup tags and colorized URLs, easy to distinguish. Traditional black text on a white background, while easy to read, is harsh on your eyes, especially with today’s ultra-bright displays. How do these colors help? One of the main causes of eye strain is high contrast. They were designed around CIELAB hues and a fixed color wheel, to minimize contrast and maximize symmetry. Solarized is a pair of color schemes, one light, one dark, designed by Ethan Schoonover to minimize eye strain. That’s why, not long after I began here at TidBITS, I became obsessed with the combination of the Solarized color schemes, paired with the Nitti Light typeface, as highlighted by bloggers Justin Blanton and Ben Brooks. As someone who now works with text all day, every day, readability has become paramount to me.
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