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Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by nijaru »

Originally learned about this font from here a few years back. The font is customizable as either serif, sans, or monospaced along with a, g, i, l, 0, etc.

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by jwr »

Happy to see this here again. Input Mono has been my favorite programming font for the last years. This is saying quite a bit, as I tend to be very picky and regularly test other programming fonts.

There is nothing else that is as readable and comfortable to use in the long term (my next-best font, and previous favorite, was Inconsolata).

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by threatofrain »

jwr wrote: post #3

Happy to see this here again. Input Mono has been my favorite programming font for the last years. This is saying quite a bit, as I tend to be very picky and regularly test other programming fonts. There is nothing else that is as readable and comfortable to use in the long term (my next-best font, and previous favorite, was Inconsolata).

I switch between Input and Fira Code as my mainstays based on whether I'm feeling like ligatures.

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by fermienrico »

jwr wrote: post #3

Happy to see this here again. Input Mono has been my favorite programming font for the last years. This is saying quite a bit, as I tend to be very picky and regularly test other programming fonts. There is nothing else that is as readable and comfortable to use in the long term (my next-best font, and previous favorite, was Inconsolata).

I tried Input Mono and it looks and feels very "tall", taking up vertical space. Obviously, I don't know whether this is just a optical illusion or objectively true.

I've found SF Mono from Apple to be the best coding font. It has a beautiful "r", slashed 0, l1 disambiguation and great rendering on MacOS. For Windows, I used FontForge to increase hinting and create .ttf versions - I am pretty sure this is violating Apple's TOS :-)

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by orev »

Been using Deja Vu for such a long time, hard to change. Seeing as this has a slashed or dotted zero really makes this a contender. So many “code” fonts don’t seem to get the zero right.

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by porker »

fermienrico wrote: post #6
jwr wrote: post #3

Happy to see this here again. Input Mono has been my favorite programming font for the last years. This is saying quite a bit, as I tend to be very picky and regularly test other programming fonts. There is nothing else that is as readable and comfortable to use in the long term (my next-best font, and previous favorite, was Inconsolata).

I tried Input Mono and it looks and feels very "tall", taking up vertical space. Obviously, I don't know whether this is just a optical illusion or objectively true. I've found SF Mono from Apple to be the best coding font. It has a beautiful "r", slashed 0, l1 disambiguation and great rendering on MacOS. For Windows, I used FontForge to increase hinting and create .ttf versions - I am pretty sure this is violating A…

The preview is the 'Narrow' version - were you trying the regular version?

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by whalesalad »

This is so cool. Really interesting how much visual noise is removed by eliminating the hard baseline serif elements of letters like lowercase-L and lowercase-I.

My favorite config (on a Retina 15" Macbook Pro): http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=14&language=python...

Might give it a spin. My current goto is Fira Code Retina @ 16pt.

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