Grumpy curmudgeon here still using DejaVu (and it's Vera Sans ancestor before that). I'm sure there's lots of good choices, but DejaVu is great, it's everywhere and it's free. Just don't see a lot of value in shopping around.
Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
#22I've been using JetBrains Mono recently, switching over from SF Mono on MacOS and Fira Code on Windows. SF Mono looks great and Fira Code has nice ligatures, but JBM has the best of both and a really nice shape.
Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
#23D2Coding by Naver, it's a narrow font but not looking crazy like other narrow fonts
Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
#24I've been using FiraCode for a year or so and like it pretty well https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
ditto. One of the first things installed when I get a new devbox now.
Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
#25Hack. Both in Sublime Text and urxvt terminals. And as a i3 system font. And as a fixed font for Firefox and Thunderbird.
Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
#26For IDEs and text editors, I use Dank Mono[0] 14pt.
On my personal machine, my terminal font is Cozette[1] 13pt, while on my company machine it's Dank Mono[0] 14pt.
In the past I've also used SF Mono[2], Fira Code[3] and Anonymous Pro[4] among others.
[0]: https://philpl.gumroad.com/l/dank-mono [1]: https://github.com/slavfox/Cozette [2]: https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ [3]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode [4]: https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro
Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
#27Monaco. I’m old.
Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
#28I 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 Emacs (main tools besides the browser) use the same font or not. Why would that interest me as long as I can read both? Sometimes when something has changed on a new installation (UI people want to do continuous improvement...) it might look ugly at first. After 3 days I don't notice it anymore. Hardly ever that I would spend any time to change it back as it has always been.
If you present online (other than slides) you should know the shortcuts to change the fontsize. And possibly change your cursor and selection color to make them recognizable for remote attendees.
Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
#29Iosevka: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
Another vote for Iosevka.
I learned about it here on HN. It is great because it is narrow but very clear and easy to read (and free). I like narrow because I like to use side-by-side panels in VSCode, so it fits more characters per line for readable font sizes. Incredible font.
Re: Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
#30The only IDE I've every changed the default font in is Teradata SQL Assistant because the comma was one pixel different from the period and it would confuse me constantly. I'm always a little surprised people are so into coding fonts.