Poll: What is your favorite programming font? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by jjs » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:50 AM UTC

intrazoo wrote: post #16

I like my deja vu sans but I wish it had a slashed zero.

Try the Droid Sans Mono variant with slashed zero.

http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/10/27/a-slashed-zero-droid-sans-...

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by a0 » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:51 AM UTC

Completely in love with "M+ 1mn Light", here's my current Sublime Text setup: http://www.odis.io/rizo/st-1.png.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by _xhok » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:55 AM UTC

spaznode wrote: post #20

Who cares? The best font is consolas. No debate, just is.

Consolas has too much of a Microsoft flavor for my tastes. That, and I find its less angular competitor Inconsolata to be much cleaner and more elegant.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by kephra » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:57 AM UTC

I wonder how many of who voted "None of the above" standard X11 fonts like misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-* ?

At least its good that "None of the above", and it reminds me on an old Yellow Biafra claim:

Every election should offer a "None of them", and the election must be repeated with new canidates, if "None of them" wins.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by ddoolin » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:58 AM UTC

Ubuntu Mono, usually.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by camus » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 2:00 AM UTC

Ubuntu Mono / Lucida Console

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by Adrock » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 2:01 AM UTC

I generated one programmatic comparisons of a bunch if fixed width fonts a couple years ago:

http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis...

I should update it with this list...

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by ek » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 2:04 AM UTC

icodestuff wrote: post #15

Kinda odd to not include Menlo, the default font in Xcode. Not sure that's my favorite (and I've gotten a lot less picky about programming fonts over the years) but it seems an odd omission.

Monaco actually ships as the default in iTerm (although Terminal.app has been Menlo for a while), and I always switch it to Menlo.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by pranavrc » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 2:05 AM UTC

Histogram so far:

http://quickhist.onloop.net/Andale%20Mono=2,Anonymous=6,Aria...

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by arh68 » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 2:06 AM UTC

jamesrom wrote: post #24

awnird wrote: post #5

Source Code Pro

Lack of italics is a deal breaker for me.

Courier Prime [1] is a comparable font and features bold+/italic. Serifs vs sans-serif they differ, but I find their quality to both be top notch.

1 http://www.quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/