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Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by jeremy_wiebe » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 5:31 AM UTC

rakic wrote: post #8

https://twitter.com/boletrone/status/1087225897244151810

Fonts seem to be a very a personal thing. There are demonstrably better and worse fonts, but at the end of the day, I would guess the there are half as many “best” (is favourite) fonts at my workplace as there are engineers.

That said, I have to check those out you mention (never heard of any of them). Thanks.

My current personal favourite is Hasklig.

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by sus_007 » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 5:37 AM UTC

Jerry2 wrote: post #4

One of my favorites is PragmataPro [0] (with powerline glyphs) and I'm sad it's not there. I guess they can't use proprietary fonts. PragmataPro was so weird when I started using it but it has grown on me and now I have a hard time switching to a terminal that uses something else. In any case, if you're like me and you look at the terminal screen for hours on end every single day, find some font that won't tire your…

I second PragmataPro. I've been using it for a couple of years now. Totally worth it !!!

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by intertextuality » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 5:40 AM UTC

Jerry2 wrote: post #4

One of my favorites is PragmataPro [0] (with powerline glyphs) and I'm sad it's not there. I guess they can't use proprietary fonts. PragmataPro was so weird when I started using it but it has grown on me and now I have a hard time switching to a terminal that uses something else. In any case, if you're like me and you look at the terminal screen for hours on end every single day, find some font that won't tire your…

$60 for a font...?

Is there something wrong with Hasklig, Fira Code, or Inconsolata?

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by ab_c » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 5:41 AM UTC

None of the fonts in "programmingfonts.org" have ligatures so no thanks. https://www.slant.co/topics/5611/~monospace-programming-font...

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by angst » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 5:44 AM UTC

Fira Mono link seems to be no longer served(redirects to general style guides page). Maybe you could link https://github.com/mozilla/Fira instead?

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by Jerry2 » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 5:45 AM UTC

gnulinux wrote: post #9

Jerry2 wrote: post #4

One of my favorites is PragmataPro [0] (with powerline glyphs) and I'm sad it's not there. I guess they can't use proprietary fonts. PragmataPro was so weird when I started using it but it has grown on me and now I have a hard time switching to a terminal that uses something else. In any case, if you're like me and you look at the terminal screen for hours on end every single day, find some font that won't tire your…

Huh. Not to sound cheap, but it really seems unnecessary to me to spend 60 Eur for a font, when I already have really good fonts like Inconsolata in my reach for free. Is font really that important, do you think? This is an honest question, please don't think I'm sarcastic.

That's an average price of a AAA game, right? And what kind of utility do you get from that?

Just did a quick check... I bought it in Sept of 2012, 2323 days ago.

$70 / (2323 day * 6 hrs/day) = $0.005/hr

Did I get my money's worth (and mind you, I paid less than that.. I'm just going by today's prices)? I think I did. It all depends on how you value things.

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by ChrisGranger » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 5:54 AM UTC

ab_c wrote: post #14

None of the fonts in "programmingfonts.org" have ligatures so no thanks. https://www.slant.co/topics/5611/~monospace-programming-font...

Fira Code, Hasklig, Iosevka, and Monoid (from your link) are all on Programming Fonts.

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by keithnz » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 6:00 AM UTC

I quite like IBM Plex Mono as a programming font... https://github.com/IBM/plex would be nice if the page has a way of making suggestions of fonts to add.

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by sincerely » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 6:02 AM UTC

gnulinux wrote: post #9

Jerry2 wrote: post #4

One of my favorites is PragmataPro [0] (with powerline glyphs) and I'm sad it's not there. I guess they can't use proprietary fonts. PragmataPro was so weird when I started using it but it has grown on me and now I have a hard time switching to a terminal that uses something else. In any case, if you're like me and you look at the terminal screen for hours on end every single day, find some font that won't tire your…

Huh. Not to sound cheap, but it really seems unnecessary to me to spend 60 Eur for a font, when I already have really good fonts like Inconsolata in my reach for free. Is font really that important, do you think? This is an honest question, please don't think I'm sarcastic.

If you don't buy fonts often 60 Eur may seem expensive but that's actually pretty cheap as far as paid fonts go.

Re: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Post by ChrisGranger » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 6:04 AM UTC

I like opening multiple tabs with different fonts and switching back and forth to make the differences more obvious.

I've been experimenting with a variety of fonts in Sublime Text 3 on Linux, and I keep coming back to the default, which is apparently called emilbuS Mono, and looks like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.