In my last commit, I updated the font family in the Commit Redux editor to a monospace font.

[main 239d98c] Updated textarea font family to monospace
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Yesterday I redesigned my personal website once more, inspired by the design of The Jolly Tea Pot, a blog from Nicolas Magand about the web and software. I’ve also been looking through sites on the 512KB Club website, which is how I found JTP in the first place.

In a blog post called Why I like monospace fonts he talks about writing his drafts with monospaced fonts. I hadn’t realized that I’ve done the same for a long time, even using the same SF Mono font!

This quote particularly resonated with me:

A draft set in a monospaced font feels like it can be further edited and chewed on furthermore, like a raw material, like code. It feels like a work in progress.

I relate to that feeling wholeheartedly, which is why I’ve changed the font family within the Commit Redux editor. It makes drafting easier, and now the editor is a bit more similar to my usual setup with nano.