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

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by sjm » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:33 AM UTC

awnird wrote: post #5

Source Code Pro

Also my current favourite — the light version specifically, with semibold as the bold variation.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by homosaur » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:35 AM UTC

If you want a more educational overview than this list which is kind of poor for discoverability (not to mention some egregious oversights), Slant has an awesome topic and there are lots of type samples. http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming...

I'd vote Source Code Pro and Inconsolata-g

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by homosaur » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:39 AM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #10

IBM 3278 terminal font. Found no scalable version, so I had to make my own: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

that's a great job reproducing the font, although I'm having too much trouble with the l1I on that to use it regularly

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by jamesrom » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:40 AM UTC

awnird wrote: post #5

Source Code Pro

Lack of italics is a deal breaker for me.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by mistercow » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:43 AM UTC

sjm wrote: post #8

yan wrote: post #3

Pragmata Pro

I used this for a while, but found it packed a little too tight horizontally. With widescreen monitors and languages where keeping to 80 columns is still standard, I found it was wasting too much space. There's only so much code I want on my screen at any one time before it's more overwhelming than actually useful.

I use it and typically have my font size set fairly large. One advantage of this is that it encourages short code blocks.

Then, if I'm dealing with code that is massively indented, like HTML, or JS with deeply nested callbacks, I can shrink down to a normal font size and still be able to read while also being able to see everything.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by xn » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:45 AM UTC

6x13

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by mproud » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:47 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.

I like Menlo too.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by mistercow » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:47 AM UTC

spaznode wrote: post #20

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

I find the 1 and l in Consolas to be far too similar.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by thought_alarm » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:48 AM UTC

I've been using Latin Modern Mono (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Latin-Modern-Mono) in Xcode for nearly five years, and I'm fairly certain I'm the only one who does that.

Re: Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

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Post by Watabou » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:48 AM UTC

I've loved a variant of Inconsolata called "Inconsolata-dz".

It's a fantastic font.