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Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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I'm 100% in the Iosevka camp, especially the serif version with Iosevka Slab. Looks amazing on a Retina screen, and it's quite compact on the horizontal axis, many programming fonts are far too wide for my tastes.

Just curious, which font size do you use? I kinda feel that small font size + serif make text unreadable.

I think it's perhaps small font size + serif + low resolution. Serifs can improve readability at times.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Surprised nobody has mentioned PragmataPro https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/ Probably the most complete and polished programming font I've seen. If you like Iosevka, you'll love PragmataPro. I've been spoiled by Iosevka and PragmataPro's narrow characters, so now I can never go back to "normal" programming fonts...

What advantages does PragmataPro offer over Iosevka?

I would think it would have to be pretty significant, given the licensing and customisability of Iosevka.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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There are at least 2 TTF conversions if you search around. E.g. https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=15281.0

Not allowed by the license usually

    The Dina font is free. You are welcome to use, distribute
    and modify it however you want, just don't use it for
    anything illegal or claim that you made it.*
https://www.dcmembers.com/jibsen/download/61/

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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For ~6 months I used Comic Sans as my single font system-wide - like, for everything. Everywhere in the system UI, code, even on webpages (Firefox lets you disable CSS font selectors). The only exception was the terminal, which got messed up with non-monospaced fonts. It was actually surprisingly great. Then as soon as I got a 4k monitor Comic Sans started to look very ugly - if not for that, I would still be using i…

I have to ask, why Comic Sans specifically? Seeing as it almost universally regarded as an specially ugly font. The only uses that I’ve seen accepted for Comic Sans are for use in comics (obviously) and for people with dyslexia.

I saw a Reddit post saying the same thing as my post here (CS is nice, try it out). I did and I just liked it. It's not ugly.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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I find it frustrating to objectively compare fonts when their heights and widths can vary so much.

My requirement are fairly simple:

I want the the largest & most readable font setup in 13" 1280x800 retina display, while still being able to fit at least 161 characters across, so that I can have 80+ characters in each editor in a split screen setup.

My current setup is: 14pt Monaco with 88% horizontal spacing. This gives me 181x39 characters in iTerm.

Another similar setup is Mensch @ 13pt @ 88% horizontal & 118% vertical. I like the bitstream/deja vu variations like Panic Sans or Mensch.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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post #206

I find it frustrating to objectively compare fonts when their heights and widths can vary so much. My requirement are fairly simple: I want the the largest & most readable font setup in 13" 1280x800 retina display, while still being able to fit at least 161 characters across, so that I can have 80+ characters in each editor in a split screen setup. My current setup is: 14pt Monaco with 88% horizontal spacing. This gi…

It's a shame you can't use bitmapped fonts - I find that Terminus at 9pts is the most legible whilst being still small on a range of DPIs. The truetype version of Terminus is truly awful and does not carry over the legibility of it's bitmapped counterpart.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Until reading this and learning about Go Mono - I hadn't ever thought to look for both serif and monospace attributes in a single font. I just assumed that monospace implied sans-serif. I personally find serif fonts _far_ easier to read and aesthetically pleasing. I've switched my phone to using Serif fonts too (though annoyed that on Samsung/Android I needed to _purchase_ a font to make that happen - not expensive,…

The very first monospace font I ever saw, Courier, was a serif font.

You're right - it is indeed a serif font, which I've seen many times (but never considered using it as my daily driver).
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