Isn't it kind of silly that you don't have the option to chose font size. I tried a few fonts that looked good on the site but I don't code at 30px font and when I plug them to my IDE they look terrible.
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#212Iosevka is highly active and highly customizable set that I've been sticking with after a dozen terminal fonts switching. Every time I try a new font now, I go back to Iosevka. The narrow width makes it stand out significantly from the others and it's much easier to use when having multiple columns open on the screen. I highly recommend it.
Yeah - also should be easier on the eyes when you read a bunch of text - less horizontal movement.
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#213More and more often, I see ligatures being used on such fonts. E.g. === or != are combined in a visually single character. Personally, I don't like that at all as I think it makes code less readable. It is probably something that you can get used to. But what exactly is the appeal of it anyway?
I’m with you. It’s source code, and as such I prefer seeing... well, only the source. I don’t get why it’s so polarizing, it seems obvious to me haha
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#214Why are the fonts so large by default? Ofc they're going to look good when they're blown up to 30px.
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#215What is with the lowercase 'f' in Dank Mono?
"This is a personal touch that was left over from the sketching phase. I handwrite my “f”s with a descender so this is one feature that I incorporated into the font." [0]
From the blog pos announcing the font.
[0] https://medium.com/@philpl/what-sets-dank-mono-apart-1bbdc1c....
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#216I used Envy Code R [1] for many years, recently I changed to Iosevka Term SS10 [2], which is kinda same.
[1] https://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-co...
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#217Isn't it kind of silly that you don't have the option to chose font size. I tried a few fonts that looked good on the site but I don't code at 30px font and when I plug them to my IDE they look terrible.
You could just zoom out, though a web browser's font rendering can differ from your programming environments anyways.
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#218A filter for LaTeX fonts currently installed on Overleaf would be helpful. Installing fonts in LaTeX is a professional level skill.
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find some ligatures help a lot. I can often miss != but won't miss ≠ or ≢ I think the whole idea of pre-pending ! to negate is a poor idea in general, it's too hard to spot especially in long convoluted lines where it's just thrown in before a complex bracketed expression.
I sometimes use a triple negation !!! for that reason. I don‘t know if there are any drawbacks, especially if there are other people working on the code, but it worked pretty well for me so far.
That might work until there's somebody who uses double negation !! for some reason. But this might only be common in JavaScript, so YMMV.
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#220My favorite monospaced font is Recursive Mono. https://www.recursive.design/ https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive I am not sure whether this is a actually feature of this font. Some ligatures, like => are only active in comments. It works both in Sublime Text and QtCreator: https://imgur.com/nWsZieo
It reminds me of Comic Sans...
No, it's significantly less readable than Comic Sans. Pointfree, however, is a good simple monospace variant of Comic Sans.