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Am I the only one who uses a proportional font for coding? I find it more readable for the same reason it's more readable in books and other printed media.
Which one do you use? I love proportional font but find most of them not suitable for code. Input Serif is the only proportional programming font I can find but it looks too old school.
It seems the Input fonts are missing ( https://input.fontbureau.com ) — I found this extensive font family several years ago and (in spite of regularly checking) haven't found anything better yet.
I use Input for about two years and really like it. IMHO you need a high dpi/Retina display, though. I also like Output, a new font by Input‘s author, but haven‘t tried it yet. Might be a great fonts for usable interfaces
I'm a big fan of Ubuntu Mono, I haven't encountered a better looking font for programming
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer
My 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…
I think Triplicate is the closest to the old Selectric Prestige font, which I loved. But if anyone has NSimSun replacements (paid or free), please let me know.
These ligatures always felt like a gimmick to me, although I'm not too picky about programming fonts. Just give me non-ambiguous iIlO0 and I'm happy.
My 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…
As far as serif monospace, NSimSun is still my favorite. It's in Windows. I love Triplicate but can't bring myself to purchase yet. I like Equity, too. I think Triplicate is the closest to the old Selectric Prestige font, which I loved. But if anyone has NSimSun replacements (paid or free), please let me know.
Nice website but the problem is that it shows the fonts at 18px size when most people use their editors at 11 or 10px sizes. Many fonts look radically different at such small sizes.
I wonder if a survey would hold that to be true - I use my editor at 16 on Linux/18 on Mac. My browser zoom is also on to differing levels for different sites - I have HN at 160%.
Am I the only one who uses a proportional font for coding? I find it more readable for the same reason it's more readable in books and other printed media.
I would like to, but I hate tabs (due to the jumps it causes in horizontal cursor navigation, and also due to the nonlinear behavior when inserting/deleting characters preceding a tab in a line), so I would need an editor that widens spaces at the start of line to get sufficient visual indentation at four spaces.
I switched to coding in a proportional font, Verdana, a couple of years ago and never looked back. That's the font you are reading this comment in, in fact. Code is mostly words and words are much easier to read in a proportional font. Symbols are plenty clear enough in Verdana, all letters are distinguishable, and I don't use mid-line alignment so I don't see the point in a monospace font outside of the terminal.
