I'm using this in Emacs on all the platforms I code. I love it.
Hack – A typeface designed for source code
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Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#42Can we please stop polluting the global namespace with names like "Hack"?
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#43Sorry, but nothing beats the good old IBM 3270 font.
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#44Comparison page with quite a few programming fonts, Hack among them: http://s9w.github.io/font_compare/
Dina FTMFW! :)
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#45Hack isn't all that great. Here are tons of alternatives: https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface (Use Input)
My favorite is Inconsolata: https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface#inconsolata
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#46How does this compare to consolas used by Microsoft Visual Studio and others? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
Hack is rather different. If you're looking for a free alternative to Consolas, check out Inconsolata: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#47Pleasing to the eye, but too wide for my taste. I like to have divide a 1080p screen into three columns of 80 chars width, and most fonts are too wide for this.
If you're referring to a vertical 1080p screen, which is pretty common for developers, then you'd need a 4.5-pixel-wide font, which would be extremely difficult to read (5-pixel-wide + 1 border characters are probably the limits of having recognisable characters for the full ASCII range), but with it horizontal then only 8 pixels wide would be sufficient, and there are plenty of fonts in that range.
Various 8-pixel wide "VGA"/"DOS"/"IBM terminal", as well as the classic "6x13" and "7x14" fonts which are my favourites, would qualify.
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#48Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10140728
Tl;dr: the monospsce font seems to be (have been) an almost direct copy of DejaVu Mono. I don't know how much has changed over the last 2 years.
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#49For those feeling adventurous: Input[1] is a proportional font made for coding. It's also highly customizable. [1]: http://input.fontbureau.com
> For those feeling adventurous: Input[1] is a proportional font made for coding
I consider myself fairly adventurous, but this is clearly beyond my comfort zone :)
Re: Hack – A typeface designed for source code
#50Can we please stop polluting the global namespace with names like "Hack"?
Because?