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Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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I stopped looking for fonts after I got comfortable tweaking the metric settings of Iosevka. My current setup exports a set of really compressed cuts (more compressed than Pragmata Pro) which I've always found hard to come by.

Might be interested in https://github.com/shytikov/pragmasevka which is my current go-to font.

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is usually configurable at the terminal level- for example, both wezterm and ghostty have available configs to control this behavior.

Good to know. I’ve been using ghostty and generally not a fan of the code ligatures (or just too stubborn to adapt!).

I'm not either. I think it may look "cool" visually but when trying to work with code with those in it, it seems odd, like that it's a single character even though it's not and it just breaks the flow

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

#144

Going through this, I was introduced to <= being converted to a ligature which immediately ruled it as a nope for me. No monkey business with the characters of my code thank you very much.

That is usually configurable at the terminal level- for example, both wezterm and ghostty have available configs to control this behavior.

> That is usually configurable at the terminal level

And if you use Emacs, it's configurable at the buffer level. [1] This lets me build a version of Iosevka where `~=` and `!=` both become ligaturized but in different major modes, avoiding any confusion.

[1]: https://github.com/mickeynp/ligature.el

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

#145

Knowing that everything in here is people asking why their font is missing: I highly recommend having a look at [ MAPLE MONO ] (on Github https://github.com/subframe7536/Maple-font ). It has amazing readability, looks nice, is compatible with NF if you use that. I received compliments from people looking over my shoulder for my f'ing font?! Huge shoutout to subframe7536 ^^

I don’t like it. It looks amateurish in the same way Comic Sans looks to me. I suppose you’d love this if you also enjoy Comic Sans.

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Knowing that everything in here is people asking why their font is missing: I highly recommend having a look at [ MAPLE MONO ] (on Github https://github.com/subframe7536/Maple-font ). It has amazing readability, looks nice, is compatible with NF if you use that. I received compliments from people looking over my shoulder for my f'ing font?! Huge shoutout to subframe7536 ^^

> Nice

< Look at the tasteful colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God.

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