(I am not an expert but I care about monospace fonts.)
Aren't all newer monospace fonts sort of look a likes? I used Inconsolata for a number of years before settling at Ubuntu Monospace for all my coding needs.
I just tried comparing Ubuntu Monospace with Source Code Pro and found (to my untrained eye) the usual problematic characters to be even closer to Ubuntu Monospace than to Inconsolata.
Can you provide us with some (superimposed) image showing Inconsolata and Ubuntu Monospace with Source Code Pro? Honestly, IMHO if you super-impose any of these modern monospace fonts (Inconsolata, UbuntuMono, LiberationMono etc) and try hard to see plagiarism, you will be able to "see" it.
BTW, does anyone knows of a tool that would allow me to achieve that easily?
Posted Aug 29, 2013 20:08 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
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Yes, monospace fonts are converging on the Ur-monospace, the one true monospace of the gods. No, this is not plagiarism. It's Evolution in Action. Departures from the ur-norm exploit niches that enable them to compete in protected spaces.
Falcons and hawks have similarly converged on the ur-raptor design from opposite branches of the avian tree. Owls exploit the nocturnal niche.
