Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?

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Post by usr1106 » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 4:05 PM UTC

throwingrocks wrote: post #32

usr1106 wrote: post #28

I used to spend a lot of time fiddling with visual properties of my desktop in the past. Nowadays I just install Xubuntu, add i3 and mostly use it as it is. So the terminal happens to be white on black and the Emacs black on white. I don't think about it, but apply the rule they give for healthier sitting: The next position is the healthiest one (meaning switch often). I don't even know whether my terminal and my Ema…

So which font do you use?

I you are still reading this. I booted my PC and checked.

Terminal font says DejaVu Sans Mono Book.

Emacs says DejaVu Sans Mono.

I don't know how this font lookup works and I don't want to spend my time on investigating, I guess both use /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf

Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?

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Post by dschuessler » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 7:55 PM UTC

I settled on SF Mono long ago.

Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?

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Post by dschuessler » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 7:57 PM UTC

kirbyfan64sos wrote: post #14

JetBrains Mono! Used to use Roboto Mono, because I liked how close it was to a standard sans-serif font, but JB Mono is similarly spaced and has the advantage of built-in ligatures and such.

Genuine question: What's the appeal of ligatures?

I never got the point. I want to see exactly what's in the document. With ligatures I have to translate what I see back to what I get. It seems like unnecessary cognitive load to me.

Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?

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Post by 1983054104 » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 7:06 AM UTC

platz wrote: post #51

How does PragmataPro vs Iosevka compare? I use Iosevka, but am curious about PragmataPro

I like the design and ideas of PragmataPro but it's too confusing for me. The $19 version seems very restricted but it's not clear enough what is missing. I use "Iosevka SS08" which has the narrowness that I love in Iosevka, and the SS08 version has some details from PragmataPro.