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I've been using DejaVu Sans Mono for quite some time. It's a nice font. It used to be the default monospace font in KDE, until they switched to Noto Mono. Autohinting setting for fontconfig makes it look better for me: DejaVu Sans Mono true
Is there some way to view them in light mode? I am not a fan of the dark.
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I'm in the same boat, every time one of these threads pop up I try a few different fonts recommended here but I always end up going back to DejaVu. It think it looks pretty good, it has good Unicode coverage, it's supported out of the box on most distros... It's weird because I can be pretty snobbish and opinionated with a lot of programming-related stuff (I use a very expensive keyboard, a large 4k screen, a heavily…
I switched from using devavu for years finally to iosevka
No love for gohu font? ( http://font.gohu.org/ )
It's a fantastic bitmap[2] font and I find that I use it on all my low-DPI screens. I think it reads a little better than gohu, but agreed: there's no love for tiny fonts on OP's link...
My favourite for a few years now is a commercial font, Triplicate. It’s a true serif monospace font; every other monospace font I’ve encountered that is labelled “serif” is actually a slab serif. It has a proper italic face as well, which is a less rare, but it’s a functional italic face rather than ornamental. It comes with some interesting variants, most notably Poly which is not fully monospaced, adjusting the wid…
That website is possibly the most beautiful and ergonomic website I've ever used.
It looks like these are all monospaced fonts. I realize that most programmers use monospaced fonts, but I personally find proportional fonts to be much more readable and pleasing to my eye. I would be really interested in a similar font comparison that included proportional fonts that are suitable for programming. Right now my favorite is Trebuchet MS. This renders beautifully on the high-DPI displays I use, and it h…
People are always puzzled when they learn I'm not using a monospaced font, think it's impossible but agree that it's much more readable. Then keep using their monospaced fonts.
Actually, nobody likes to read books or blog posts printed with monospaced fonts, right? There is no reason to do it with code.
Alignment like this
short = 1
much_longer = 2
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I switched from using devavu for years finally to iosevka
Had a look at iosevka - it definitely seems nicer than many of the others, but it still feels too vertical when compared to DejaVu in my opinion. Is there something that sold you on it?
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Ligatures could probably be simply shown by adding one or two of the most common ones ( <=, != etc...)
Maybe it's changed in the last hour or two, but for me it does indicate when ligatures are present -- in the list on the lest, under the name of each font there's a line giving name, date, and some features -- one of which is "ligatures".