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Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by Karunamon »

evanrelf wrote: post #155

Surprised nobody has mentioned PragmataPro https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/ Probably the most complete and polished programming font I've seen. If you like Iosevka, you'll love PragmataPro. I've been spoiled by Iosevka and PragmataPro's narrow characters, so now I can never go back to "normal" programming fonts...

I ended up going with Iosevka because it's basically PragmataPro without the 200EUR ($223) price tag. I just can't justify that much for a freaking font to myself, no matter how nice it looks.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by iserlohnmage »

1_player wrote: post #149
Ezku wrote: post #69

This rarely gets a mention but totally deserves one: Iosevka[0], a programming font with great ligatures, multiple weights, and customizable character variants to tune it to your preferences. It’s more slender than most blocky monotypes which makes it stand apart especially from more traditional choices like Monaco and Consolas. [0]: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

I'm 100% in the Iosevka camp, especially the serif version with Iosevka Slab. Looks amazing on a Retina screen, and it's quite compact on the horizontal axis, many programming fonts are far too wide for my tastes.

Just curious, which font size do you use? I kinda feel that small font size + serif make text unreadable.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by yeswecatan »

INTPenis wrote: post #52
Erlich_Bachman wrote: post #35

Every thread about programming fonts is not complete without mentioning the wonderful website https://app.programmingfonts.org (no affiliation, I just find it really useful) which lists all the free programming-related fonts with live preview (for example every single font from the article, and every one mentioned so far in every comment in this thread is already there in the app) - it allows quick one-click preview…

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.

It only lists free fonts

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by jwilk »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #67
jwilk wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe try copy&pasting the URL instead of clicking it (so that no Referer is sent)?

Well, I'm not sure if there's a way of doing that on iOS, but I'm on desktop now anyway, so if anyone else just wants a direct link to the full-size image, here it is: https://i.imgur.com/LdzBmpx.png (edit: although, nope, even opening the direct URL to the image reroutes it to the low-res thumbnail version. I just don't think it's viewable on mobile — never mind!)

Note that this is the same URL that the one that was originally posted. :-/

Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303283

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by klageveen »

eps wrote: post #170
Erlich_Bachman wrote: post #35

Every thread about programming fonts is not complete without mentioning the wonderful website https://app.programmingfonts.org (no affiliation, I just find it really useful) which lists all the free programming-related fonts with live preview (for example every single font from the article, and every one mentioned so far in every comment in this thread is already there in the app) - it allows quick one-click preview…

Doesn’t have Dina :P

Sadly, Dina is only available as a Windows FON file format, which I can't use or host in a web app.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by jedberg »

For a brief while I tried using Comic Sans in my IDE. I did that because it was made to be super readable. It was in fact super readable, but I just couldn't get over the lack of mono spacing.

Then I switched to FiraCode and it's been great.

I still use Comic Sans in all of my chat programs though (IMessage, Slack, IRC, etc.) I actually really enjoy it.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by sedachv »

I do not think you can talk about typefaces separately from talking about color themes. Different typefaces will have completely different legibility depending on the background and foreground color. Low-contrast themes are terrible for legibility, and necessitate poor choice of font and font size to compensate.

In 2017, I decided to invest some time in font-shopping; so many good alternatives had appeared since I last looked in 2009. The unexpected result was that I stopped using vector fonts and switched almost everything I do to the X Window System bitmap misc-fixed font.¹ After looking at the alternatives, misc-fixed is still the best typeface for text density and extended computing sessions. It was a typeface designed for black-on-white CRT displays in the 1980s, but works just as well white-on-black on LCD displays today.

¹ Unfortunately Firefox font picker only lists vector fonts, I did not bother to try fixing that.

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