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Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by yellowapple » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 8:10 PM UTC

Joeri wrote: post #198

jedberg wrote: post #177

For a brief while I tried using Comic Sans in my IDE. I did that because it was made to be super readable. It was in fact super readable, but I just couldn't get over the lack of mono spacing. Then I switched to FiraCode and it's been great. I still use Comic Sans in all of my chat programs though (IMessage, Slack, IRC, etc.) I actually really enjoy it.

Check out Fantasque Sans Mono, it is a monospaced Comic Sans.

Seconded; it's exactly what I use with Comic Neue.

I wouldn't say it's exactly a monospaced Comic Sans; there are substantial differences. It definitely has a lot of the same advantages, though.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by acheron » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 8:42 PM UTC

jsd1982 wrote: post #225

I may be an oddball here but I prefer and still use to this day the original IBM VGA8 BIOS bitmap font [0] for monospace everywhere including IDEs and text editors. I grew up in the late 1980s and 1990s staring at DOS text mode screens and this font was pretty much burned into my brain. Generally I try to keep it at its original 16px height and avoid any sort of non-integral scaling or antialiasing blurriness. [0] ht…

I do the same thing. It's very comforting to be using that font.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by jolmg » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 9:34 PM UTC

Erlich_Bachman wrote: post #35

Every thread about programming fonts is not complete without mentioning the wonderful website https://app.programmingfonts.org (no affiliation, I just find it really useful) which lists all the free programming-related fonts with live preview (for example every single font from the article, and every one mentioned so far in every comment in this thread is already there in the app) - it allows quick one-click preview…

:/ The bitmap fonts are rendered with anti-aliasing. That's too bad. The advantage of bitmap fonts is how crisp they look. Here, they're pretty hard to read at small sizes.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by alwillis » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 1:03 AM UTC

Zizizizz wrote: post #36

Iosevka is the one that I always go back to: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ Both the standard and slab versions are great

Holy smokes!

For as long as I’ve been coding, I’ve never heard of this font. Thanks for mentioning it.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by naikrovek » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:29 AM UTC

jolmg wrote: post #243

Erlich_Bachman wrote: post #35

Every thread about programming fonts is not complete without mentioning the wonderful website https://app.programmingfonts.org (no affiliation, I just find it really useful) which lists all the free programming-related fonts with live preview (for example every single font from the article, and every one mentioned so far in every comment in this thread is already there in the app) - it allows quick one-click preview…

:/ The bitmap fonts are rendered with anti-aliasing. That's too bad. The advantage of bitmap fonts is how crisp they look. Here, they're pretty hard to read at small sizes.

Only if they aren't at their native point size. If you're on chrome, then you're right, because chrome renders how it wants, in classic "I know better than you" style.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by andrewshadura » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 11:27 AM UTC

eps wrote: post #203

colejohnson66 wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Hmm, that sounds like discrimination of fields of endeavour => not open source :'(

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by Weizilla » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 4:38 PM UTC

For those who found almost the right font but not quite, FontForge is a free and open source editor that's pretty easy to use and even has a tutorial on editing and design:

https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/ http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/index.html

Editing glyphs is just like using any image editor. You can mod any existing font or even combine glyphs from multiple fonts together into one.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by pcnix » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 5:29 PM UTC

Ezku wrote: post #69

This rarely gets a mention but totally deserves one: Iosevka[0], a programming font with great ligatures, multiple weights, and customizable character variants to tune it to your preferences. It’s more slender than most blocky monotypes which makes it stand apart especially from more traditional choices like Monaco and Consolas. [0]: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

Iosevka converted me into a narrow width font fan, +1 for this suggestion.

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by fbnlsr » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 7:07 PM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #138

fbnlsr wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also love bitmap fonts, but when you're switching screen sizes it's annoying to have to change your config each time.

That's when you cheat and use a TrueType version of the bitmap font :)

But then it's not as crisp looking :(

Re: Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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Post by ngenstyle » Fri, Nov 01, 2019, 5:31 PM UTC

hechang1997 wrote: post #213

what do you guys think is the best editor theme in bright light? I have been always using monokai but recently I have to work in bright light sometimes and it's quite hard to read.

Check out Dracula At Night for VS Code. I swear by it for every IDE possible. I'm honestly surprised it's only got around ~52k installs. I don't remember where I first found it, but I'm glad I did.