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Lesser Known Coding Fonts
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Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
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". Typefac…
I've heard this argument many times, and it would work in a vacuum. A $100 keyboard is probably better than a $10 keyboard. This $200 font is not better than this other $0 font, and it has the same aesthetic. And good luck quantifying "better than" given a list of feature checkboxes that are common to all "programming fonts" including Fira Code, Source Code Pro, etc.
I wasn't trying to imply $200 font is better. I think you missed my point - which is that there is a stigma associated with paying for fonts and that usually comes from the fact that people do not know what goes into development of fonts due to the abundance of free fonts available on the internet. Sure, free fonts can be great - I did not say they can't be.
One of my favorite fonts is Isoveska which is free.
Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In the US at last check, bitmap fonts weren't subject to copyright. Also, the X11 fonts I've looked at had a license string something like "these glyphs are unencumbered".
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#224I'm a big fan of https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/ the characters make me happy every day :)
Fantasque sans mono is my current font, as I've been using it for over a year, as it was the only font that I really like. It is slightly too fancy sometimes, and I go the one that renders "k" without the loop.
There's a download option to have Fantasque Sans Mono without the looped k.
https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/releases/download/...
Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts
#225I may be an oddball here but I prefer and still use to this day the original IBM VGA8 BIOS bitmap font [0] for monospace everywhere including IDEs and text editors. I grew up in the late 1980s and 1990s staring at DOS text mode screens and this font was pretty much burned into my brain. Generally I try to keep it at its original 16px height and avoid any sort of non-integral scaling or antialiasing blurriness.
[0] https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ - the default font for that site; I use the PxPlus variant.
Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 suspect those X11 bitmap fonts are in arcane 1980s formats that would require a chain of conversions-- from bitmap to vector to get them to Postscript Type 1 or TTF, and then from TTF to WOFF.
Yes, I’ve seen a lot with old formats. I don’t think the bitmaps themselves are a problem, I already have a bunch (maybe they are faux bitmap though, not sure actually). And they don’t need to be woff though, that just adds some compression and prevents installation. The latter of course not being an issue for the fonts that are featured here.
Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I used DejaVu Mono Book for quite a while, I had no problems with it.
Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect those X11 bitmap fonts are in arcane 1980s formats that would require a chain of conversions-- from bitmap to vector to get them to Postscript Type 1 or TTF, and then from TTF to WOFF.
Yes, I’ve seen a lot with old formats. I don’t think the bitmaps themselves are a problem, I already have a bunch (maybe they are faux bitmap though, not sure actually). And they don’t need to be woff though, that just adds some compression and prevents installation. The latter of course not being an issue for the fonts that are featured here.
You can find the bitmaps on the standard X distribution, or more easily in many programs that embed them. E.g., terminology: https://github.com/billiob/terminology/tree/master/data/font...
Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts
#229The 3 main things I look for in a "coding font" are whether I can differentiate between i,I,l,L,1 and 0,o,O characters, whether or not it is readable at tiny font size (7px to 9px range on my display) and that it is a monospaced font. first and second are nice to have in any font. For over 4 years I have sworn by the excellent Fira Mono font by Mozilla more specifically FiraCode (variant with added ligatures), before…
U used Monofur[0] as a programming font for the longest time since it differentiates the similar characters so well. In addition it's a nice friendly looking typeface with big round characters.
That said these days I mostly use fyra code.
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#230I love the APL333 font! Thanks mate!