Mono ‘r’ looks like dotless ‘i’ at small sizes

[ruuda]

This is Fira Mono 3.110, rendered at 13px in Firefox 30 on Windows 7 (DirectWrite).

I read .chars() as .chais() the first time I saw that.

[globau]

+1

[nnethercote]

I also find the 'r' hard to read.

[njd]

It needs a more prominent curve (shoulder?), and maybe shorter serifs; that would distinguish it better from lower-case i.

[patrykdesign]

We'll address this in the next release: 3.2. I am hoping in the next couple of months.

[patrykdesign]

We'll try to address this in the next update, likely Q1 2015.

[chreekat]

I'm glad this glyph has been marked for review. I stared at an r standing by itself in some code for a long while, and eventually my brain decided it was an x. I had to see it again in a different context to find out it was actually an r. :)

[patrykdesign]

Fixed in the latest Fira Mono 3.2.

[ruuda]

Great!

[dgutov]

I liked the previous version. The new update makes the curl more prominent, which is usually okay (even though it makes the letter harder to read if it's followed by m), but it also makes the stem thicker, which is a bit problematic, again, at small sizes.

[Jhonyrod]

I would propose to drop all the serifs on the r and make it look more in line to other sans-serif fonts.