Fira Code and Caskaydia are my favorites.
Is this the recommendations sub-thread? Inconsolata is the best i've used.
Berkeley Mono Typeface
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#62I 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.
Same. I love experimenting with my coding font and for the past year or so I was using Hack.
I wasn't able to find anything better yet after trying a lot of fonts: Fira, JetBrains Mono, Iosevka, Monaspace, Ubuntu Mono, and others.
Or perhaps I'm too familiar with Hack now and everything else now looks weird..
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#63No Cyrillic languages. It shows only few ligatures for JavaScript. And with this in mind it costs $75 when there are plenty free alternatives. Who's the target audience here?
I found it very odd listing a bunch of languages and not providing support for Cyrillic family...
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#64"You wouldn't steal a font"
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#65Berkeley Mono is my favourite! It's the crossed seven that matches my handwritten style which I really appreciate. Not very common in other monospace fonts I've tried. I really enjoy this font for development and writing documentation. I carry it around for everything. Default monospace across the board: Terminal, IDE, Notes; sometimes I go buck-wild and monospace the entire Desktop-Environment to match.
I always felt a bit like a weirdo writing 7 that way - no one I know writes it that way. Glad to find there are other folks like me.
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#66It's the nicest monospace font I've seen in a while, and I'd love to try it out, but $75 is a rather hefty price for development use. I don't mean to diminish the work that's been done, but more... I wonder if you could sell twice as much by cutting the price in half. $75 prices out quite a lot of people.
For a paid font $75 for an unlimited lifetime license is not at all expensive. I suspect the difficulty isn't so much getting people to pay $75 for a font, but getting people to pay for a font in the first place. The font market is essentially split between free fonts and expensive fonts. The people willing to pay for fonts are not particularly price sensitive, because if they were they would just be using a free font.
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#67It's the nicest monospace font I've seen in a while, and I'd love to try it out, but $75 is a rather hefty price for development use. I don't mean to diminish the work that's been done, but more... I wonder if you could sell twice as much by cutting the price in half. $75 prices out quite a lot of people.
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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.
+100 I really dislike ligatures. They are one of those things that seem great in theory but I find them to be a real distraction. This is why I never got into the JetBrains fonts — there was no ligature-free option. (Maybe there is now, but I haven’t felt motivated to try it again.)
> Maybe there is now
You’re right! Check out the NL (no ligature) version: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/tree/master/fonts...
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
+100 I really dislike ligatures. They are one of those things that seem great in theory but I find them to be a real distraction. This is why I never got into the JetBrains fonts — there was no ligature-free option. (Maybe there is now, but I haven’t felt motivated to try it again.)
You don't have to use them, even if they're in the font, just turn them off in your reditor.
Conversely I can turn them on for code I didn't write.
There is no downside to ligatures.
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#70super annoying web design from a graphic design company to show a typeface that purports its goal is to "get out of the way" so you can be productive, why not show some calm examples of text as in a terminal at a normal typesize? I had to zoom out to 60% just to tame it, and yet there was still blinking all over the place and nothing that approximated anything other than a phone screen. does something about this type…
Fair criticism about samples, launching new update and it'll have better samples. Also, you're welcome to download the trial—best way to see how it looks in your specific setup. I don't agree with your take on flourishes (in better terms, artistry). Every typeface has it. The process of designing a typeface is full of subjectivity and artistry.
Oh if you're here: Any plans on covering APL/Miscellaneous Technical?