Ask HN: What programming font do you use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

#31

Post by grakic » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:03 PM UTC

PragmataPro

Re: Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

#32

Post by Jgrubb » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:07 PM UTC

I always try out the others, but I always come back to Monaco.

Re: Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

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Post by antonios » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:09 PM UTC

grakic wrote: post #31

PragmataPro

I'll second that. Very nice and well-hinted font, with quite a bit of unicode coverage as well. Definitely worth the money.

Re: Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

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Post by iopq » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:12 PM UTC

davewiner wrote: post #21

Geneva. I don't understand why programmers use monospace fonts, other than some kind of tradition.

I actually tried a programming font that is not monospace and it's not an issue. Left side is aligned the same anyway and I don't care if lines don't align on the right side.

Re: Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

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Post by quantisan » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:16 PM UTC

lucianp wrote: post #30

My favorite is Source Code Pro by Adobe [1]. I use it on Mac OS X and Ubuntu. On Windows I have to use Consolas, because SCP does not render well in gVim for Windows (at least not on my system). Note that Source Code Pro does not have an Italic typeface yet. Italics are commonly used for source code comments and most editors will automatically emulate the shapes, often with poor results. Active development is current…

[2] was raised in 2012 and still in discussion. I have no idea how fonts are made. Why does it take 2+ years to make a font italic?

Re: Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

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Post by rjsw » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:17 PM UTC

quantisan wrote: post #4

Inconsolata http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

I use Inconsolata in most applications except emacs.

I'm using a fairly old version of emacs without Xft2 support so use codec[1] with it.

[1] http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/codec.html

Re: Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

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Post by Tomte » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:19 PM UTC

quantisan wrote: post #35

lucianp wrote: post #30

My favorite is Source Code Pro by Adobe [1]. I use it on Mac OS X and Ubuntu. On Windows I have to use Consolas, because SCP does not render well in gVim for Windows (at least not on my system). Note that Source Code Pro does not have an Italic typeface yet. Italics are commonly used for source code comments and most editors will automatically emulate the shapes, often with poor results. Active development is current…

[2] was raised in 2012 and still in discussion. I have no idea how fonts are made. Why does it take 2+ years to make a font italic?

Because you need to come up with a design for the cursive variant and then draw all those glyphs.

So the time needed is probably shorter than the time spent on the regular variant, but only by a small factor, certainly not orders of magnitude.

Re: Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

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Post by sp332 » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:21 PM UTC

izietto wrote: post #15

Ubuntu Mono https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono I like it a lot. Here an example of Sublime Text 3 + Ubuntu Mono 10pt + Blackboard Theme: http://imgur.com/qW8yyi0

I like Ubuntu Mono, but on some screens (probably depending on antialiasing settings?) it looks too fuzzy and I switch to Inconsolata. It seems one of those two will look good in any setting. Or if I have to deal with no anti-aliasing, Proggy TT is a nice (small, ~9pt) monochrome font.