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I like switching fonts every couple of years just to keep it fresh. My font right now is Iosevka: https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ A font generated from its source code. You can build your own variant. It has ligatures as well. I like that it’s not as wide as many other monospace fonts.
What? I can't understand how such large font people can function. I mean, how large (or dense) are your screens? Is that a Macbook thing?
I'm at... something small. Hard to tell exactly, because on my laptop screen, all following fonts look pretty much the same size, while having different configured values:
- IntelliJ - Monospaced, size 12
- Emacs - (:family "Hack" :foundry "unknown" :slant normal :weight normal :height 76 :width normal)
- xterm - xterm*faceName: Hack:size=8:antialias=false
So 8 / 12pt (which one is pt?) and/or 76 somethings. People at work say I'm crazy working with such small text, but frankly, anything larger for me feels like wasting tons of vertical space, which is of short supply given the (IMO completely idiotic) market standardization on 16:9 and 16:10 displays.
I love Firacode and use it in Android Studio/IntelliJ but it has this bug[0] where "=" is invisible in Gnome terminal. So, I had to switch to Fira Mono[1], the parent of Fira Code, from Mozilla. Fira Mono doesn't have cool ligatures but it's a good font and works pretty well. [0] : https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/162 [1] : https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
Apparently I'm one of the two users of proportionality spaced fonts for coding. I've used this now for five years and I don't understand why developers still see this need to code as if monospaced terminals is all that's available. Especially on large screens with high dpi it reads much faster. It also makes it less awkward to use editor unicode substitution for display purposes.
If like me you really like aligning your code proportional fonts are not exactly pleasant to use. I sometimes go out of my way (within reason) to have variables with the same number of letters so that I can align them nicely. A bane of my existence is that "width" and "height" don't have the same number of letters. An example from some lua code I'm working on at the moment: local hi = buffer:bitfield(4, 4) local lo =…
The inability to do vertical alignment outside of the left edge of the line is a bit annoying, but honestly I don't miss it that much. If you have enough code that you really, really need to do that, I find it's a code smell indicating that something likely needs to be broken into smaller pieces anyways.
I like switching fonts every couple of years just to keep it fresh. My font right now is Iosevka: https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ A font generated from its source code. You can build your own variant. It has ligatures as well. I like that it’s not as wide as many other monospace fonts.
My only real concern is that it makes 0x123 look like 0×123. Otherwise, pretty cool.
> I frankly can't understand how tiny font people can function. It gives me a headache to even consider programming at anything less than 14 to 16pt and I am usually around 20pt. What? I can't understand how such large font people can function. I mean, how large (or dense) are your screens? Is that a Macbook thing? I'm at... something small. Hard to tell exactly, because on my laptop screen, all following fonts look…