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Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by koheripbal »

solicode wrote: post #20
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #9

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The kerning is easier in your eyes, and is also much more space efficient. The only drawback is the inability to do ascii art.

While I wouldn't say it's THAT significant, there is one other advantage to fixed-width fonts that I've experienced. Due to the fact that they align vertically, sometimes they expose mistakes if you're constructing data in a table-like fashion. Or when you have a bunch of copy/pasted lines that differ only in the parameter values. Like, "Hey wait a minute... this line is 1 char wider than the previous one. Oh, whoops…

This exactly. Most recently I had a script that was calling functions with fixed width data sets (IDs, credit card numbers, birthdates, etc..), and typos were significantly easier to find due to the data and fonts both being fixed width.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by orthoxerox »

cprecioso wrote: post #95
the_pwner224 wrote: post #61

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For ~6 months I used Comic Sans as my single font system-wide - like, for everything. Everywhere in the system UI, code, even on webpages (Firefox lets you disable CSS font selectors). The only exception was the terminal, which got messed up with non-monospaced fonts. It was actually surprisingly great. Then as soon as I got a 4k monitor Comic Sans started to look very ugly - if not for that, I would still be using i…

I have to ask, why Comic Sans specifically? Seeing as it almost universally regarded as an specially ugly font. The only uses that I’ve seen accepted for Comic Sans are for use in comics (obviously) and for people with dyslexia.

Maybe they do have dyslexia.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by anon1253 »

armagon wrote: post #99

I would really like to use a proportional font that has coding ligatures (such as -> becomes an arrow). Is there such a thing? Is there a way I could combine two fonts, a normal proportional font, and the ligatures from something like Fira Code , to create a hybrid font, perhaps with a script?

Not entirely sure I understand, but maybe Pragmata Pro? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragmataPro

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by mbrock »

cjbprime wrote: post #70
mbrock wrote: post #37

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The latest release of Iosevka has a "quasi-proportional" variant called Iosevka Aile which I really, really like. Here's a 3200x1800 screenshot with some code in Emacs. https://i.imgur.com/LdzBmpx.png The kerning is not as tight as in a real proportional font. It's a bit more spacious and regular so that fixed width tabular layouts still look relatively decent.

Incredibly readable, thanks for sharing. I like your color scheme, too.

It's an Emacs theme called "cyberpunk". :D

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

thenewnewguy wrote: post #14
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #9

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The kerning is easier in your eyes, and is also much more space efficient. The only drawback is the inability to do ascii art.

Maybe it's because I've only used fixed-width fonts for programming and have gotten used to it - but I find fixed-width fonts significantly easier on the eyes.

But would you ever read a novel using fixed width fonts? Modern typography uses variable width fonts for good reasons.

I find type writer fonts to look horrible since I’ve gotten used to variable width fonts. It’s like immediate eye strain for me. But you have to choose a good font, times new Roman won’t work.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by airstrike »

_mghw wrote: post #56
INTPenis wrote: post #52

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That is a truly fantastic site but it doesn't mention https://dank.sh/ which I first heard about in this thread. Just to nitpick. But I am right now going through every one of those fonts in the app to compare with the one I've used for almost a decade now.

Do you like it? One of the things that really gets in the way of comprehension for me are typefaces with too much personality. These cutesy italics etc. really seem to affect my ability to get on with the job at hand. This is why, despite trying, I've yet to find something that can outdo Consolas on Windows. I tried Fira this and that, Source code pro and a bunch of others from Google Fonts. They all are inferior to…

Ubuntu Mono is the only one that rivals Consolas, imho. I used Monaco for the longest time but keep coming back to one of these two

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by harimau777 »

mxstbr wrote: post #38

This is definitely missing Dank: https://dank.sh It's my favorite programming font, made by a good friend of mine. It has awesome ligatures and the italic version is beautiful, similar to Operator Mono!

I really like it overall, but I think the f going below the baseline and the italic l not starting at the baseline would drive me crazy.

I wonder how hard it would be for me to change just those characters.

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