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Input: Fonts for Code
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#112Hi! Dooes this support ligatures? I've come to depend heavily on them for some reason.
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#113Controversial: I use Input Sans as my coding font. Yes, it's a proportional font (designed for code).
Using a monospaced font feels like a robotic concession to the ancient ways... Doing my small part to bring about the human-friendly future of coding I dream about.
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#114Yet to find something that suits me better than Fira Code. It's a decently good-looking font with ligatures . I'm a sucker for ligatures.
Why do you like ligatures?
What, on ${DEITY}’s Blue Earth, can ligatures possibly do for you as a programmer, that is in any way useful?!?
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are instances where font matters, and I go back to TurboC on my 8086 and Fortran 'scards' on a VMS mainframe + terminal, so I'm not a whiny mod-crazy hipster. > Fonts Creating Bugs: Some fonts are more prone to errors. Lower case L vs number one, zero vs. capital O, braces vs parens, lowercase g vs 9. Go look at old Unix fixed fonts, and even courier and you can see how hard it is to distinguish. (Unix '10x7' w…
> What kind of savage codes with a proportional font? I did for some time. I only switched back because our coding standard limits the length of a line and that is hard to check with a proportional font. I honestly don't get why source code needs a fixed character grid. My prefered code formatting doesn't require lining up things using spaces in the middle of the line. If things need to be lined up, then I put them i…
I honestly don't get why source code needs a fixed character grid.
> Alignment of blocks and assignments. It's that simple.
The benefits from the increased legibility and clarity can be quite tangible. Code that is the same looks the same, and it's easier to scan for anomalies.
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#116Yet to find something that suits me better than Fira Code. It's a decently good-looking font with ligatures . I'm a sucker for ligatures.
Why do you like ligatures? What, on ${DEITY}’s Blue Earth, can ligatures possibly do for you as a programmer, that is in any way useful?!?
I'm not a programmer. I'm a writer and a designer. Coding is what I do when I don't do either – less as a hobby and more a way to vent my creative frustration.
Aesthetics is important to me. Being in an ugly environment brings me down. Fira Code brings positive aesthetics with it. And ligatures are cool.
I'm the kind of a person that does things simply because they're cool.
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#117Used them for a couple years already. Input Mono Condensed!
If the Input Mono Condensed you're referring to comes from https://djr.com/input/ I recommend reviewing that font's license. https://djr.com/license/ is a non-free license (the license does not respect your software freedoms to run, copy, share, and modify the software). The license is revocable under unclear and incompletely specified conditions: This license can be terminated at any time for no declared reason "wit…
So? What's the worst that could happen and how do you even imagine a practical CnD would take place? Somebody spots you using the font at a convention and decides to change the license then and there?
It's not like you can't easily change your font if you're ever required to.
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#118I use "Fixed". It is a pretty good fixpitch font for display on screen, in my opinion. I personally prefer it over all of the others that have been suggested. No antialiasing, no TrueType, just a pure bitmap font with nothing extra.
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#119Yet to find something that suits me better than Fira Code. It's a decently good-looking font with ligatures . I'm a sucker for ligatures.
Iosevka for me, you can custom build it with the letter designs you want, it supports ligatures and it's condensed without been cramped (also has Term, non-term and Slab variants in the same build). It's replaced my mono font everywhere , Fira Code is lovely but it feels way too wide once you've used Iosevka. The only font that comes close is Pragmata Pro but that's not free. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/be5invi…
I'm fond of Iosevka as well - but the downside to the narrow font is that it uses very slightly more vertical space than say Bitstream Vera Sans which is my other "go to" font.
Great font though. Recommended.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I loved Fira Code as well but it was love at first sight with IBM Plex https://www.ibm.com/plex/
Checked the website - looks like the zero isn't slashed, and I've spent too much time chasing down errors caused by oh's as zeros.
It is dotted zero, although I have seen modified versions with a slashed zero.