Well, I checked them all out, and I must not be the target audience / a font person / very perceptive, because with a couple of exceptions they all look the same to me.
Dev Fonts
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Triplicate has a nice look, but l (lowercase L) and 1 (one) are indistinguishable, which is an immediate non-starter for me in a programming font. ( CORRECTION: there is apparently a code version that disambiguates these and others. See comments. That means this probably would be a candidate font for me, except: ) I finally just paid for Pragmata Pro, and haven't regretted it. The unicode support is incomparable, and…
There's a code variant that disambiguates 1 and l (and others).
But it makes the code Small Caps, which I find unusable in code.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, however, I like to see exactly what it is I am typing, exactly which symbols are being used. Ligatures distort that. I feel the same way. I do think I would enjoy programming in a language that used a slightly more extended set of real characters, as long as we had solid editor and font support so typing and viewing them wasn’t going to be an issue for anyone. For example, I’d like to finally have ≠, ≤ an…
I feel the same way. Ligatures in coding fonts are a poor workaround for bad keyboard layouts. If you want to see ≠ then type ≠. Julia is the only ‘major’ language I know that supports most such characters.
Raku / Perl 6 has been supporting unicode for operators, quotes, rational numbers, etc. for more than a decade.
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#224My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…
What's the decision process behind _choosing_ a font? I've always gone by look and feel but I've never felt fully satisfied with any of the (code) fonts I've chosen. I used Incosolata for a long time and in the last year I've moved to Hack. I really like Hack a lot but I am also trying harder to make more conscious decisions with my physical programming environment as I age (beyond aesthetics, caring about ergonomics, etc...).
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#225Ligatures are nice but when you want to show the code to someone, or when you're reading a snippet for reference, you need to know exactly what keys to press to make that symbol. Assuming everyone knows the underlying glyphs for a combined ligature is not productive. I wouldn't want reference websites and documentation to use these fonts for example.
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#226My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…
Personally, my eyes and brain just can't scan ligatures in code efficiently, I have to double read the code, especially "is that =, ==, or ===? Oh, and that's !==" (edit) I'll additionally qualify my comment, from a mathematics background I can casually scan a handwritten "!=" which is the same as the ligature, but I just cannot retrain my adult brain to accept the ligature version which is the same as the handwritte…
Not for comparison, but for boolean checks I prefer to use `foo == false` instead of `!foo`, the latter is easy to overlook.
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#227I switched to Cascadia Code about a year ago on a whim, it's been so nice. Switched my editor and then my terminal over to it.
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#228My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…
There's a free monospace serif-looking font called Go (made for Go, the programming language), designed by Bigelow & Holmes: https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts
I have been using that font as my main development font since it was released. Great looking font. Although I have to give an accolade to Iosevka which is easily my favourite "narrow" font.
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#229My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…
Triplicate has a nice look, but l (lowercase L) and 1 (one) are indistinguishable, which is an immediate non-starter for me in a programming font. ( CORRECTION: there is apparently a code version that disambiguates these and others. See comments. That means this probably would be a candidate font for me, except: ) I finally just paid for Pragmata Pro, and haven't regretted it. The unicode support is incomparable, and…
PragmataPro compromises readability across the board - here is why: It is compressed/condensed to allow for shorter line widths but legibility suffers.
Put up 2 exactly same code snippets side by side. One in PragmataPro and one with SF Mono (or Consolas, etc.).
I purchased PragmataPro but regret it. Now I use it on Mechanical Drawing dimensions :) It is fantastic in CAD.
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#230My favourite monospaced font is Triplicate https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html >: the only true serif monospace that I know of (though I have a vague feeling I found one other at some point). Every other serif monospace I know of is a slab serif. Triplicate’s variable stroke thickness is also exceedingly rare in monospaced fonts; almost everyone goes for uniform stroke thickness, as is customary with sans…
This looks really nice, too bad it doesn't (and never will) support ligatures. I understand the point the author is trying to make about ligatures in the separate blog post, but boy do I love my ligatures when programming.
How do you plan to reverse engineer the underlying keystrokes if you look at some ligature ridden code on a tutorial website?
It is nice to read. That's not the only thing we do with code. Ligatures are fine for yourself in a private setting.
It's popularity is alarming.