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

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by elektronaut » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:19 AM UTC

TheSansMono Condensed at 13pt, with slightly increased line spacing.

You'll probably balk at the price (as did I), but you can buy single weights.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by isaacb » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:19 AM UTC

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is the only smooth font I've been able to find that still looks good at smaller sizes, which means more lines of code on the screen. Combined with Solarized (usually light), my eyes have been really really spoiled.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by st3fan » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:23 AM UTC

I prefer Adobe's Source Code Pro Light on a Retina screen. The Retina part is important, I don't think this is a nice font on a low-dpi screen :-)

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by presty » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:23 AM UTC

I don't know AKA the default on sublime/eclipse/etc in the OS that I'm using

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by icodestuff » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:25 AM UTC

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.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by intrazoo » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:27 AM UTC

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

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by dgesang » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:29 AM UTC

Ah, it's "What's your favorite X?" time again! +1 for Source Code Pro.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by msbarnett » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:30 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.