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CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by wanda »

Landed on Cousine in the end, which is the font I tend to use.

Fira Code came in second, and that's fair, I've used it on occasion, I like it.

I feel like Chivo Mono[1] would make a decent programming font — if a programming version of it were to exist, anyway.

I also like Go Mono[2], and although they're rather different to what I usually go for, I can see the appeal of the M+ mono[3] fonts.

For those of a more whimsical inclination, Fantasque Sans Mono[4] seems like it might be cool for you.

[1]: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Chivo+Mono

[2]: https://go.dev/blog/go-fonts

[3]: https://mplusfonts.github.io/

[4]: https://belluzj.github.io/projects/design/fantasquesansmono-...

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by craftkiller »

pmarreck wrote: post #121
dylan604 wrote: post #120

Going through this, I was introduced to <= being converted to a ligature which immediately ruled it as a nope for me. No monkey business with the characters of my code thank you very much.

That is usually configurable at the terminal level- for example, both wezterm and ghostty have available configs to control this behavior.

No need to rely on app-specific configs. You can disable it globally in your fontconfig. For example, this disables ligatures in the Cascadia Code font:

  
    
      Cascadia Code
    
    
      liga off
      dlig off
Here is someone disabling ligatures for Noto Sans Mono: https://blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=610

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by hayleox »

torgeros wrote: post #103

Knowing that everything in here is people asking why their font is missing: I highly recommend having a look at [ MAPLE MONO ] (on Github https://github.com/subframe7536/Maple-font ). It has amazing readability, looks nice, is compatible with NF if you use that. I received compliments from people looking over my shoulder for my f'ing font?! Huge shoutout to subframe7536 ^^

That dollar sign is awful. I kinda dig some parts of this, but my brain simply doesn't parse that as a dollar sign; it requires extra thought to recognize it.

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by jevndev »

dylan604 wrote: post #120

Going through this, I was introduced to <= being converted to a ligature which immediately ruled it as a nope for me. No monkey business with the characters of my code thank you very much.

I love ligatures but I wish there was tooling for context sensitive ones. This is a really good example. When developing, I love <= turning into ≤. When running a cli that happens to use <= for the start of its progress bar… not so much

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by amanzi »

ss141309 wrote: post #178
amanzi wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been a long time Fira Code user, but recently switched to Maple - I love it. Mostly because of the "single storey" `a`, but that's just a personal preference of mine.

Fira Code does have a "single storey" a. You can activate it by passing the "cv01" feature flag to your text editor of choice. (If the text editor supports otf font features) For more info: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylis...

Thanks for the tip! I really need to look into these feature flags some more to understand how they work. I noticed that the Inter font has similar flags too.
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