{"id":154628,"date":"2016-02-10T08:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T06:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154628"},"modified":"2016-02-10T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T06:41:23","slug":"operator-a-new-font-for-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/154628-operator-a-new-font-for-programmers.html","title":{"rendered":"Operator: a new font for programmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typography.com\/blog\/introducing-operator\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hoefler &amp; Co has unveiled<\/strong><\/a> a new font called Operator, which the company said is aimed at helping programmers with coding.<\/p>\n<p>The monospace typeface font pays attention to the brackets, braces, and punctuation marks more critical in code than in text.<\/p>\n<p>Operator further renders the easily-confused I, l, and 1 far less ambiguous, and helps \u201ccolour\u201d syntax in a way that transcends the actual use of colour &#8211; ensuring that different parts of a program are easier to identify.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn developing Operator, we found ourselves talking about JavaScript and CSS, looking for vinyl label embossers on eBay, and renting a cantankerous old machine from perhaps the last typewriter repair shop in New York,\u201d Hoefler &amp; Co. said.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the Operator font is available <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typography.com\/blog\/introducing-operator\" target=\"_blank\">in the video from Hoefler &amp; Co<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on programming<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/152037-top-10-programming-languages-for-2016.html\">Top 10 programming languages for 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/150301-radical-new-programming-campus-in-south-africa-taking-shape.html\">Radical new programming campus in South Africa taking shape<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/148431-is-html-really-a-programming-language.html\">Is HTML really a programming language?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoefler &#038; Co has unveiled a new font called Operator, which is aimed at making coding easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":154630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,35368,35366],"class_list":["post-154628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-font-for-programming","tag-operator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154644,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154628\/revisions\/154644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}