I'm currently using Droid Sans Mono for coding. With a small hack to add a slash through the Zeros. For me it's finally the best coding font I've used.
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I loved Fira Code as well but it was love at first sight with IBM Plex https://www.ibm.com/plex/
Oh god, that website though. How many CSS animations do I have to suffer through before it lets me scroll down to any actual information? Make it stop!!
Man, you weren't kidding! That is literally the most useless website I've ever seen. I spent over two minutes on it and still couldn't find a simple table of examples.
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#83To be honest, I never understood all these discussion about "coding fonts". They pop up every now and then here on HN but it always seems like bikeshedding to me. Don't get me wrong - I'm aware that there are some folks who may have a vision impairment or some other reason where it really matters. But apart from that, I've been programming for decaded on many different computer systems with many different fonts, and…
I call it Font Disease. Once afflicted, you will start noticing fonts, and for anything written you can control, you desperately want to find the best font possible--the default will not suffice. When you find a good font, it's very satisfying, and the action of you choosing that font is like scratching an itch.
Sounds like you don't have Font Disease. Lucky.
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#84I'm a font-aholic and reading Hacker News, I get the impression I'm not the only one. My first adventure down the font hole started with Bit Stream Vera Sans Mono followed by Source Code Pro. Stuck with Source Code Pro for many years and even today, not sure any other aliased font looks and works as well as Source Code Pro at almost every size, from the smallest onward. It just looks clean to me. After reading on her…
I know what you’re talking about. I have tried a seemingly endless number of fonts. I really liked Hack and IBM Plex Mono, especially the latter. For a short period, I even coded with F25 Bank Printer - what a fun!
Currently I use the Golang fonts (monospaced serifs).
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#85Recently found the Golang fonts. https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts Monospaced with serifs - totally blew my mind. I am using it since then and it is the best font for me I have tried so far.
Couldn't agree more. I like Serif fonts, but they are hard to find in monospace form.
I've known about the Input fonts, but their license is too restrictive. Recently I discovered two that are open source: Courier Primer and Go Mono.
I have switched to Go Mono as soon as I found out about it, even though I was a long time Source Code Pro user
I think this font deserves to be more widely known.
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#86Font selection is so personal and subjective, so really go with whatever you find suits your taste. For me, it's Source Code Pro.
Agreed on the subjectivity. At home (on a 24" 4K monitor) I use Consolas (18 points), at work (on 24" FullHD) I like Ubuntu Mono.
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#87Dank Mono. Ligatures, crossed zero and crazy italics for comments and the like: https://dank.sh
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will chime in as another huge Iosevka fan. I have never really liked any of the other popular coding fonts and it really comes down to one thing: They are all stupid sans-serif fonts. I have found, ever since displays grew out of the garbage 100 dpi age, that serif fonts are vastly more enjoyable to look at and easier to quickly visually discern. As a result, Iosevka Slab is basically the only code-optimized font I…
> Monospace is already such an awful layout for readability... So why code in a monospaced font then? There's no rule that says you have to write code in a monospaced font. I've used proportional fonts for many years, and almost every programmer's editor supports them. I'm currently using a slightly modified version of Trebuchet MS (I replaced the tilde with a better one). Another example is Input Sans, one of the th…
Reasons: I haven't found a proportional code font I like very much and, more importantly, many—MANY—existing code files include text arranged with the expectation of monospace fonts and if you use proportional, they become a mess.
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#89Dank Mono. Ligatures, crossed zero and crazy italics for comments and the like: https://dank.sh
The lower italic 's' is crazy.
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#90To be honest, I never understood all these discussion about "coding fonts". They pop up every now and then here on HN but it always seems like bikeshedding to me. Don't get me wrong - I'm aware that there are some folks who may have a vision impairment or some other reason where it really matters. But apart from that, I've been programming for decaded on many different computer systems with many different fonts, and…
I call it Font Disease. Once afflicted, you will start noticing fonts, and for anything written you can control, you desperately want to find the best font possible--the default will not suffice. When you find a good font, it's very satisfying, and the action of you choosing that font is like scratching an itch. Sounds like you don't have Font Disease. Lucky.
Oddly, I caught Font Disease around the time I also caught Old Age and my previously perfect vision became less perfect.
The symptoms are: first fiddling with font size, suddenly 10pt was too small! Then I frobbed colour scheme for a bit, then boom, I'm downloading fonts. And trying others (eg: eval over a weekend project) and spending hard-money on font libs. By the time I realised I had it, twas too late! (Also, I'm using Hack, 16, Atom Dark)