https://youtu.be/_WgrfEaAM4Y?t=1206 Anyone know this font/theme name? Looks solid to me.
That's Hack [1].
Lesser Known Coding Fonts
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#182I 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 la…
> Unfortunately Firefox font picker only lists vector fonts, I did not bother to try fixing that.
Fontconfig on most distros is configured to reject bitmap fonts by default. On Debian, it's /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf. One way to fix that is enabling all bitmap fonts "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config", which might be too much. Another is to explicitly enable Fixed in /etc/fonts/local.conf: https://github.com/stevenrobertson/rc-files/blob/master/.con...
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There are at least 2 TTF conversions if you search around.
E.g. https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=15281.0
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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.
I truely wonder how many people purchased a font for coding, at $40 when so many perfectly suitable fonts are free/open source.
Not to sound flippant or pretentious, but for me, $40 is practically free for a software tool. On top of that, I can expense licenses if I use them for my work. I’m guessing that most people in my position would have no problem paying $40 for a font.
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#185I really like consolas. It looks beautiful, there is no ambiguity between characters, the spacing and sizes are perfect. It comes pre installed with Windows, and I even use it on Linux, which is my primary development environment.
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#187Every 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.
Is there a side-by-side comparison between this and Fira Code? They look very similar (apart from the italics).
Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
I truely wonder how many people purchased a font for coding, at $40 when so many perfectly suitable fonts are free/open source.
Not to sound flippant or pretentious, but for me, $40 is practically free for a software tool. On top of that, I can expense licenses if I use them for my work. I’m guessing that most people in my position would have no problem paying $40 for a font.
It's still a bit much IMO. It reminds me of Sublime Text being priced at $70 or Input Mono being $40-100+ depending on the options you choose.
I assume they are willing to accept the risk of piracy and/or lost sales to free alternatives like Fira Code, and plan to make their money on institutional licenses instead.
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what I don't like about thus site is that there are no large bitmap fonts (not even the x11 standard bitmaps, which are great)
What bitmap fonts do you miss? The site is currently restricted to fonts with a license that allow me to serve a web font for the live preview. So while there are a bunch of bitmap fonts in there, there might be some missing. I love to find out about new fonts though.
i mean the standard "fixed" X window fonts, that come with x.org and have a large variety of sizes. They are typically the default font for xterm. They are everywhere, in debian for example, so no problem with the license.
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#190Surprised 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.
You could just buy the normal and perhaps italic weights.
If you're a software engineer, $100 on a font that you look at 8 hours everyday for a living is a no brainer. You'd probably spend $80 on a mouse, $100 on a keyboard, $120 on a good pair of shoes, $1500 on a good mattress, fonts are one of those things. If you like it, there shouldn't be a hesitation for "oh...its just a font, why should I pay for it".
Typefaces are insanely hard to design and optimize. Sometimes, it takes a couple of years to develop one typeface.