I’m not sure if that feels appropriate to me for this font (which is not itself monospace).
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San Fran is one of the only typefaces in the history of the world that opted for proportional numbers by default. +
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Haha, I love both of you already and I’m going to go on a bit of a longer thread about this, if you don’t mind.
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Please point out holes in my thinking. And please ignore if this is rambling. :·)
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I think the main thing I would optimize for is the clock looking good at quick glance, which is where Mac OS is actually doing well.
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They messed up blinking, which shouldn’t be hard to fix… (he said ignoring huge internationalization issues)
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…and it bothers me and catches my attention when e.g. 9:59 becomes 10:00, and everything moves to the left in the tray area.
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One solution for this is fixed space, but that’ll create weird padding in the morning.
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Another one is finding a monospace font that looks good, and doesn’t look out of place. I don’t know if SF Mono is that.
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If not… if they just fix blinking, I think they’re not doing badly. Monospace digits might be a bit of skeuomorphism in this case.
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But I guess so is blinking, and I should just remove it. :·D *fin*
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