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Re: Ask HN: What's your current favorite programming font?

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Post by bitwize »

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #25
bitwize wrote: post #7

I'm partial to bitmap (or bitmap-like) fonts, esp. those derived from computers I once had or aspired to have. Current favorites are the Tandy2K font from the Ultimate PC Font Pack, the Atari ST 8X16 font, and Amiga Topaz (all variants). For graphical Emacs, Iosevka.

Bitmap fonts also look great on low-quality, low resolution monitors (like my 82 DPI crap). Vector fonts give blurry text on medium to low sizes, and are simply unreadable with really small text.

That's the wonderful thing about bitmap fonts: they're designed to be readable even in less than ideal display conditions because they were made for old-school CRTs and some of them even for dot matrix LED signs and the like.

And I don't really mean in the "reading for pleasure" sense, you don't want to curl up with a New Yorker article rendered in Atari ST 8x16. But in the "all characters are visibly obviously distinct" sense, so when you are scrutinizing a piece of code, it's absolutely clear what character is what, so you can find and fix bugs and follow the flow.

Re: Ask HN: What's your current favorite programming font?

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Post by iwebdevfromhome »

schainks wrote: post #14

Inconsolata is my programming font. Also! This game was mentioned recently here to help the undecided or those looking for something new: https://www.codingfont.com/

That is a great resource! Thanks for sharing. I was looking for a website that helped me compare two different fonts but this works too.
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