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Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by seumars »

MarsAscendant wrote: post #124
seumars wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find Fira Code to have too harsh serifs and unnecessary details like the open lowercase g. Given my love for Input, I emailed DJR (the designer) about including ligatures but he wasn't interested, so I drew a set of my own: https://pasteboard.co/HWhfhsE.png

You know what I never expect to do? Use a VPN just to access the websites my Internet provider is too slow to reach. Tried to do that with the link you posted, still to no avail. Could you repost your image to, say, Imgur? I'd like to see how you'd implemented ligatures. (Turned out I remember Input because I saw Output, a font by the same author, and thought "Oh, that's nice! I could use that on my webs-- oh, it's n…

No problem. Here is the image: https://imgur.com/a/0wZsbQE

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by aldanor »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #41
aldanor wrote: post #39

I can't find anything better than Monaco for myself. That's something about it aesthetically pleasing which I can't quite explain. Fira Code probably comes second.

What about SF Mono? I liked it enough to port it to Windows.

Oh - thanks for noting! SF Mono looks pretty cool, I missed it somehow (is it available on 10.12?). I guess I'll have to dig it out of Terminal.app now to try it out.

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

#133

Post by MarsAscendant »

seumars wrote: post #131
MarsAscendant wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know what I never expect to do? Use a VPN just to access the websites my Internet provider is too slow to reach. Tried to do that with the link you posted, still to no avail. Could you repost your image to, say, Imgur? I'd like to see how you'd implemented ligatures. (Turned out I remember Input because I saw Output, a font by the same author, and thought "Oh, that's nice! I could use that on my webs-- oh, it's n…

No problem. Here is the image: https://imgur.com/a/0wZsbQE

Ooh! Pretty!

Nice work there.

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by SZJX »

cfv wrote: post #112

Hi! Dooes this support ligatures? I've come to depend heavily on them for some reason.

Apparently not from the replies and the author doesn't seem to be interested. Pragmata Pro is still the best IMO.

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

#135

Post by cben »

justwalt wrote: post #29

I really like Overpass Mono. It's quite easy to read and I think it looks nice as well: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Overpass+Mono

Note that Red Hat had this designed for styling large headings (similar to the font used on highway signs), not for reading code.

https://github.com/RedHatBrand/Overpass https://overpassfont.org

Hmm, nice selection of math operators! If I ever need to put math formulas on highway signs... But I don't want to get people killed, and anyway TeX would have better spacing ;-)

Re: Input: Fonts for Code

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Post by johnNash04 »

tyingq wrote: post #73
cygned wrote: post #38

Recently 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.

Looks like the old SunOS console font. https://i.stack.imgur.com/g1qkf.png

No matter what font, this product supports it: https://www.coolutils.com/CoolutilsConverter
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