I bought it – or rather, asked for it as a gift from my wife – and it was well worth it. It brings me just a tiny bit of joy every time I see one of the beautiful ligatures in my terminal, and I was also just happy to support the creator. It takes effort to make a well-formed font, and I am thankful that there are people willing to devote time to it.
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#23Looks like OCR-B and Letter Gothic had a baby. There are better fonts for coding.
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#24I recently discovered Monaspace [0] and was fairly impressed by its texture healing feature, besides generally looking nice. And it's free. [0] https://monaspace.githubnext.com/
Monaspace has been on the HN frontpage a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38210574
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#25I'm a huge fan of this typeface. Initially, I was skeptic about paying, but I spent hours every single day on the screen, and after using the trial for a few days, I was sold. It's extremely good designed, the numbers are crisp, and everything is well-balanced and thought out. It's worth every single cent.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack ( https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ ) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a try. It looks really nice and the price is right. The font in the OP looks great too, but I can’t bring myself to pay for it. Not when there’s so many great alternatives out there at no cost.
I was the same until I started using Fira Code and don't think I'll ever go back to anything else. the ligatures are worth it https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
I must say it does look awesome.
Although I'm personally not a fan of ligatures, I feel they may increase mental burden at times;
for example having to look closely if it's = vs == or == vs === among other examples.
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#27This was the first time I bought a font, and -- surprisingly -- I haven't regretted it at all. Every time I look at my terminal there's always a little bit of happiness at how elegant the font looks.
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#28I have bought it on sight, and never regretted a second after installing it. It's readable, easy on the eyes, and really brings the character of "the golden era of computing" to your environment. As a person who have started with computers relatively early, this font makes me feel at home.
I use it on my terminals, text editors, IDE, and browser, and it's both unobtrusive and delightful, at the same time. If you're into dark themes, pair with Gruvbox Dark. You won't regret it.
It's doesn't follow the trend, but puts its own rules on the table, and it shows.
I can't recommend this enough.
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#29I recently discovered Monaspace [0] and was fairly impressed by its texture healing feature, besides generally looking nice. And it's free. [0] https://monaspace.githubnext.com/
Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack ( https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ ) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a try. It looks really nice and the price is right. The font in the OP looks great too, but I can’t bring myself to pay for it. Not when there’s so many great alternatives out there at no cost.
One class of alternatives you could also consider is narrow fonts like PragmataPro[1] (commercial) or Iosevka[2] (gratis, FOSS). Being able to fit more stuff onto the screen side-by-side is what enabled me to get as much into tmux as I have.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack ( https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ ) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a try. It looks really nice and the price is right. The font in the OP looks great too, but I can’t bring myself to pay for it. Not when there’s so many great alternatives out there at no cost.
I was the same until I started using Fira Code and don't think I'll ever go back to anything else. the ligatures are worth it https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Hack is very underrated and awesome. Fira Code is nice, so is Adobe Source Code Pro [0], and Iosevka [1]. Yet, Berkeley is truly at its own level.