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Totally subjective opinion, but yet to see something beat Consolas.
I actually prefer Ubuntu Mono over Consolas or Inconsolata but fonts are a very subjective thing. :)
On the info page: """ M M M M proportional fonts can make it easier to spot typos """ The example given demonstrates that a certain subset of typos can be caught using proportional fonts, but not all. If a word has too many or too few characters in it, I think you are more likely to spot it utilising a monospaced font. EDIT: the quote has been made more legible.
Totally subjective opinion, but yet to see something beat Consolas.
I actually prefer Ubuntu Mono over Consolas or Inconsolata but fonts are a very subjective thing. :)
I enjoy condensed fonts like Pragmata Pro (which I highly recommend), and this appears to be one of the few viable alternatives I've seen. Merits a week-long test-drive, I think.
There's something refreshing about it, it's nice, big, clean, and LEGIBLE. I use it for my IDE and terminals and there's no turning back.
Highly recommend everybody check out Source Code Pro!
I unfortunately can't use it in my main IDE's as both PyCharm and PHPStorm have bad aliasing on Linux fortunately solved by Terminus which doesn't require it.
I have been having a love affair with Source Code Pro, thin weight, at about 14pt, using Solarized Dark color palette. There's something refreshing about it, it's nice, big, clean, and LEGIBLE. I use it for my IDE and terminals and there's no turning back. Highly recommend everybody check out Source Code Pro!
So you can get a nice preview of it if you like :)
(though, i think he uses 12pt, i use 13pt personally.)
Just the Mono family alone is excellent. There are a number of different weights available, each with italic and bold variants, and the repertoire of glyphs is extensive. I enjoy condensed fonts like Pragmata Pro (which I highly recommend), and this appears to be one of the few viable alternatives I've seen. Merits a week-long test-drive, I think.
Wow, I never thought I would see proportional fonts specifically designed for coding. I've coded almost exclusively in proportional fonts for over ten years. The font I use the most is Georgia. It makes code easier to read and more pleasing to the eye, just like any other text. Besides personal preference, I think there are two main reasons people avoid proportional fonts: column alignment and two-space indents. Two-…
I would say that the problem is "SomeReallyFancyTypeName" where you've created a ridiculously long type name (one of the reasons I avoid Windows programming at all costs). That aside, editors don't handle tabbing very well. It's far more space-efficient to insert two tabs instead of 8 spaces, but space and bandwidth are so cheap these days, no one can be arsed to fix what is viewed as a minor problem (use enough spac…
You mentioned that "editors don't handle tabbing very well". All the editors I use most frequently - IntelliJ IDE, Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, Komodo, Sublime Text, UltraEdit - handle both tabs and proportional fonts without any problem, so that hasn't been an issue for me. I'm curious to know what editors have trouble with tabs.
Anyway, I try not to worry too much about tabs vs. spaces. My only real objection is two-space indents. That's just not enough for many people including myself.
Of course many editors don't support proportional fonts, but that doesn't cause a problem for those of us who like to use proportional fonts in the editors that support them. It's really easy to write code that is equally readable in a monospaced or proportional font.
Regarding the line lengths, my coding style lends itself to very short line lengths, as shown in the example above. I think that helps give some freedom to use wider indentation.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fonts do it because outside of code there is just always a space character inserted before every parenthesis. Adding additional space inside the parenthesis character would just increase that space, something that is not desirable.
The topic is developer-oriented specialized fonts - so there is no such thing as 'outside of code', and in a monospaced font no space can be added since the width is fixed - so my question was about shifting the parenthesis towards the 'inside' within that width.
