Yup. As far as modern letterform conventions go, it's just plain wrong.
It's incredibly distracting and I can't imagine why anyone would ever choose to use it for code.
If you're doing some kind of cool alternative graphic design poster, then by all means go nuts! That's precisely where it's fun to play with different forms and be as "wrong" as you want.
But for something like code where legibility is the primary concern, it's a very unfortunate choice.
Our brain recognizes words not just by individual letters but by the shape of the entire word, and inserting a descender where we're not accustomed to one, breaks our word-level recognition. It's not a neutral, aesthetic choice -- it literally makes it objectively harder to read, in a modern context.
It's incredibly distracting and I can't imagine why anyone would ever choose to use it for code.
If you're doing some kind of cool alternative graphic design poster, then by all means go nuts! That's precisely where it's fun to play with different forms and be as "wrong" as you want.
But for something like code where legibility is the primary concern, it's a very unfortunate choice.
Our brain recognizes words not just by individual letters but by the shape of the entire word, and inserting a descender where we're not accustomed to one, breaks our word-level recognition. It's not a neutral, aesthetic choice -- it literally makes it objectively harder to read, in a modern context.