Fira Code and Caskaydia are my favorites.
I like and use Fira Code too and even though Berkley might be an alternative, the price is too high just to have an alternative to Fira Code (IMHO).
Berkeley Mono Typeface
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Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface
#52IMO this is pretty hard to read. And why are there two different glyphs for the number 0? Jetbrains Mono, which is also FOSS, seems nicer: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
When you download you get pick what zero or 7 you want.
Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface
#53I recently discovered Monaspace [0] and was fairly impressed by its texture healing feature, besides generally looking nice. And it's free. [0] https://monaspace.githubnext.com/
As for free, monospaced fonts, there is also FiraCode.
Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligatures
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
EDIT: @airstrike beat me to it. Anyway, that's my favorite.
Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface
#54No Cyrillic languages. It shows only few ligatures for JavaScript. And with this in mind it costs $75 when there are plenty free alternatives. Who's the target audience here?
Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface
#55No Cyrillic languages. It shows only few ligatures for JavaScript. And with this in mind it costs $75 when there are plenty free alternatives. Who's the target audience here?
Me, apparently. I think it looks gorgeous. I don't speak any languages that are written in Cyrillic and I don't like ligatures in code. But I want that 1970s Unix feeling...
Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface
#56Anything new here? Bunch of discussion last year on a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30557557 The ligatures were released earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34583520
read the room.
Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack ( https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ ) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a try. It looks really nice and the price is right. The font in the OP looks great too, but I can’t bring myself to pay for it. Not when there’s so many great alternatives out there at no cost.
One class of alternatives you could also consider is narrow fonts like PragmataPro[1] (commercial) or Iosevka[2] (gratis, FOSS). Being able to fit more stuff onto the screen side-by-side is what enabled me to get as much into tmux as I have. [1] https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/ [2] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
regular fonts seem wide after several years of me using iosevka
Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface
#58I have bought it on sight, and never regretted a second after installing it. It's readable, easy on the eyes, and really brings the character of "the golden era of computing" to your environment. As a person who have started with computers relatively early, this font makes me feel at home. I use it on my terminals, text editors, IDE, and browser, and it's both unobtrusive and delightful, at the same time. If you're i…
Same, I bought Monolisa before discovering Berkeley Mono, and then I was really angry for how much more I paid for a worse font.
Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was the same until I started using Fira Code and don't think I'll ever go back to anything else. the ligatures are worth it https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
I must say it does look awesome. Although I'm personally not a fan of ligatures, I feel they may increase mental burden at times; for example having to look closely if it's = vs == or == vs === among other examples.
+100 I really dislike ligatures. They are one of those things that seem great in theory but I find them to be a real distraction. This is why I never got into the JetBrains fonts — there was no ligature-free option. (Maybe there is now, but I haven’t felt motivated to try it again.)
Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface
#60No Cyrillic languages. It shows only few ligatures for JavaScript. And with this in mind it costs $75 when there are plenty free alternatives. Who's the target audience here?
Me. I’m under one of the supported languages, do not write JavaScript (and while all the languages I use has ligatures, I don’t use them), spend 10 hours in front of a terminal/editor/IDE, and love computing at 70s, plus love the 70s aesthetics.
If you think $75 is expensive is for a functional piece of art, look at the license of Operator Mono.