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

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Post by spatz » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:29 PM UTC

Argorak wrote: post #20

Fira Sans Mono. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os... (not displayed, but the download includes a Mono variant)

Fira Mono is really beautiful, but the problem I have with it is the vertical spacing. The lines are so far apart, almost nothing fits in the screen.

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

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Post by irickt » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:30 PM UTC

Luxi mono, because it has the most attractive serifs I've seen.

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

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Post by sjtrny » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:31 PM UTC

jimlei wrote: post #27

I think the default fonts work great so I have never changed the font of the editor(s) I use. Am I weird?

No, I'm the same way too. I've never even thought about changing the font in IDEs or terminal.

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

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Post by lucianp » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:33 PM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #37

quantisan wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[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.

You are right. From reading the comments on the issue [2], this seems to be the reason why it takes so long. Although I have now idea of how fonts are made, I think the work needs to be done for all currently available weights (7 different weights).

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

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Post by neonlex » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:33 PM UTC

grakic wrote: post #31

PragmataPro

I used this font since more than a year. It's great but a week ago I started using Source Code Pro.

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

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Post by Semaphor » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:36 PM UTC

I used to use Anonymous Pro, now I use Consolas.

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

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Post by sp332 » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:37 PM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #37

quantisan wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[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.

The glyphs can look completely different in italic. http://www.fffranziska.com/#sec_italics And after drawing the glyphs, manually checking and adjusting the kerning between every pair of glyphs takes a lot of time too.

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

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Post by thegeomaster » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:43 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…

Just a minor nitpick: you are probably referring to an oblique style, not italic. Italic style implies a calligraphic handwriting look-alike, and is way more common with serif typefaces. Oblique style is just glyphs tilted to right, and I think that's what you meant here. No offense intended, of course.

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

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Post by cranium » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:46 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 use Ubuntu Mono 14pt in iTerm2 and kinda like using a font that big ! http://imgur.com/7Bdtuge

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

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Post by thegeomaster » Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 1:50 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 used Inconsolata, Monaco, Source Code Pro, Consolas, Pragmata Pro, but in the end settled with Ubuntu Mono. I use it in Vim with the great Solarized color scheme, and it's a pleasure to look at.