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Re: Ask HN: What font do you use while programming?

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I use Tamsyn (6x12 on lower res screens, 7x14 on 4k monitors), http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ but it's getting more and more difficult to use bitmap fonts these days. Firefox recently dropped support for them, gtk support is hit and miss. Where I can't use Tamsyn I use https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font I like fonts that are easily readable when small so I can get more screen realestate, and bitmaps are the…

Same here. All those fonts looked same until I found Tamsyn. If anyone reading here want to try it, you have to use it at the exact size it is made for, or else it will look ugly. So if you are using Tamsyn6x12 font, you can only use it at 12px font size..or it will look ugly.

Re: Ask HN: What font do you use while programming?

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Inconsolata http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

Inconsolata is my choice too. It's legible at small sizes and has clear distinctions between all the easy-to-confuse characters like 0 vs O, l vs I vs 1, etc.

And unlike many programmer-friendly fixed width fonts, it's also almost as comfortable to read as a good variable-width screen font when reading/writing/editing large blocks of text such as comments, personal notes, READMEs, etc.

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