Another day, another Letter Gothic lookalike "developer font". I do not feel particularly motivated to switch away from the terminal bitmap fonts I normally use. There's something about an 8x8, 8x16, or similar small numbers grid of pixels -- the constraints seemed to breed creativity that you don't see too much of anymore in monospaced fonts for coding/terminal use.
MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
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Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#32My favorite font still remains fantasque sans mono. It's loosely based on comic sans, I just need a little playful edge in my coding job. Otherwise it gets too stale.
Love the font
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#33Unfortunately not available to compare on https://www.programmingfonts.org/ While I'm here: Victor Mono has been my programming font of choice for a while now: https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/ Oh, look at that, the Victor Mono homepage has a font comparison slider that allows you to compare it to MonoLisa! MonoLisa advertises that it's wider than other monospace fonts, and you can really see that in the compariso…
Thanks for the resource, that's a cool site!
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#34Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#35Another day, another Letter Gothic lookalike "developer font". I do not feel particularly motivated to switch away from the terminal bitmap fonts I normally use. There's something about an 8x8, 8x16, or similar small numbers grid of pixels -- the constraints seemed to breed creativity that you don't see too much of anymore in monospaced fonts for coding/terminal use.
Curious which bitmap font you use? I use terminus.
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not if a part of a line is out of the window right? This makes splitting harder, therefore, reading harder
Seems niche? I don't think that's enough of a reason to say the design choice is a sin for everyone.
Line length linters are kinda standard. The goal is to have "shorter lines".
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#37> As software developers, we always strive for better tools but rarely consider font as such.
Meanwhile, I look at new coding fonts on at least a monthly basis. Nothing beats Input Mono [^1] for me; I actually like wider fonts, so I might take this one out for a spin.
[^1]: https://input.djr.com/
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#38Isn't "increased width" an ungodly sin to the developer lord? If anything, we want to see more in a given space, not less...
That's how I think about it too. I use Anka/Coder Narrow. It takes some getting used to, but may enable using an additional editor window at certain monitor sizes.
Another commenter replied that all editors have word wrap, but the resulting code doesn't look great, IMHO. I prefer full control.
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#39If you're willing to spend money on a font for coding, then do yourself a favor and take a look at PragmataPro as well. I bought a license (checks notes...) 8 years ago and it has served me very well. If I was not down to pay for a font, then I'd probably use one of Iosevka's forms. Personally, however, it became clear to me that just like my monitor, the font I spend hours looking at every day is also worth some mon…
Iosevka is my all-time favorite font. MonoLisa seems to sell itself on being "wide", and Iosevka is the opposite of that. Each letter is exactly .5em, which is on the very narrow side of things as monospaced fonts go. So if this thing appeals to you, Iosevka isn't the free alternative you're looking for. But if you want the nicest monospaced font in the world, then Iosevka is ;)
Re: MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
#40Isn't "increased width" an ungodly sin to the developer lord? If anything, we want to see more in a given space, not less...
Considering we have 80-column conventions and widescreen monitors... no?