Mine is mononoki
It is a very minimal clean looking monospace font with support for ligatures. What is yours ?
I like Fira Code a lot.
What is your favourite font for code ?
Submitted 6 months ago by meter_kilo@lemm.ee to programming@programming.dev
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Gur814@lemmy.world 6 months ago
smoof@kbin.social 6 months ago
I used to use First Code until I found Iosevka.
shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 5 months ago
I was using Anonymous Pro before discovering Fira Code.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Try this site and pin the ones you like to compare really easily. You can also change the code to whatever you like.
I think my main is Hack, though I really like Pragmata and Gintronic. Jetbrains and Firacode are pretty cool, though I much prefer the first three to either, and Jetbrains to firacode.
What I really like about Hack and Gintronic is the very laid back parentheses. They’re both very readable, hack is compact, gintronic is more extended but it has this feeling of everything being a logical block. Pragmata I really like but hard to actually compare it because it’s not on the site I shared above. Pragmata is I think as good as hack and gintronic, and it has the added benefit of having ligatures and nerd font glyphs built in! I’d probably prefer hack or gintronic overall if they had these features but they don’t.
muhanga@programming.dev 5 months ago
Thank you for sharing link to the site! I have found 4 new terminal fonts to try.
corytheboyd@kbin.social 6 months ago
The one that comes with the IDE, because I don’t really care.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
That is fine as long as it is one where l1I are easy to distinguish.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
so brave
ripe_banana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
nezbyte@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hack is my go to font as well, I’m sure part of that is due to it being well supported and easy to remember. Plus the lack of spaces in the name makes for less escape characters or quotes when defining it in config files.
The small but critical feature I look for in a font is a clear differentiation between the characters I, l, and 1.
A_A@lemmy.world 6 months ago
differentiation between the characters I, l, and 1.
differentiation between the characters I, l, and 1.… and betweem “rn” and “m”
… and betweem “rn” and “m”ripe_banana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think my love of the font is how comfy everything feels. A lot of nice curves 😉.
colonial@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can’t beat Iosevka in my opinion. I use the Term variant for my shell as well.
kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 6 months ago
Webdings.
meter_kilo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I was expecting someone to say wingdings when I posted the question, but this is one better 😁
bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
silas@programming.dev 6 months ago
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
My only complaint, based on the image you posted, is that I had to look at the
lenabove the===to tell how many equal signs there were in that operator.silas@programming.dev 5 months ago
Yeah, that’s a literature with 3 lines so it’s easy to distinguish. The cost is obviously a huge downside compared to other fonts here though
sping@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Ubuntu Monosince it was in beta and I heard the designer from Dalton Maag — the typeface design studio commissioned to design it — give a talk about how excited he was to be able to create a comprehensive, carefully thought out, and truly free/libre font.I’ve never seen another one that I prefer the look of, and now it’s imprinted in my brain. People love to crap on Shuttleworth / Canonical / Ubuntu, but there are a lot of great things they’ve contributed over the years.
midnight@kbin.social 6 months ago
Iosevka.
meter_kilo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nice one. typeof.net/Iosevka/
Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fira Code was my font of choice for a while, but now I use JetBrains Mono! Cascadia Code is also acceptable.
fzz@programming.dev 6 months ago
I love ligatures and Fira Code (retina) is the best and absolutely comfortable for me.
tdawg@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m too old to die on any hills these days but mainly if it:
- is mono spaced
- doesn’t change characters to something other than what they literally are
Then I’m happy
agilob@programming.dev 6 months ago
beefsquatch@programming.dev 6 months ago
theherk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can’t believe there isn’t more love for this here. I have used and loved many of the fonts here but Victor Mono is unparalleled in my view. Legible, open source, superb keming, cursive italics, ligatures or not, and very consistent across all faces. The champ in my book.
257m@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Jetbrains Mono. There is no other option for me.
dbilitated@aussie.zone 6 months ago
likewise, with ligatures!
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
DejaVu Sans Mono
aport@programming.dev 6 months ago
DVSM is timeless. IMO Hack makes a few subtle improvements like the zero, i/l, and some punctuation characters
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 6 months ago
I don’t know what’s with this font, but I can’t get away from it. I tried Monaspace because it looks really nice, as well as a few other programmer fonts. But DejaVu is just so sharp and readable, and it makes the code look slightly less busy.
A lot of modern fonts don’t look that great when not on a HiDPI “retina” display.
flubba86@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was using Inconsolata for about 5 years, then switched to Inconsolata-g when that came out, for another 5 years. But it’s a pretty old font and is TrueType so doesn’t render well on Linux and it misses out on a lot of new font features.
In 2019 I went hunting for a new favourite font, and tried out a whole bunch, giving each one a week in my IDE to really get to know it. During that time I realised I had a bunch of basic requirements for a font that some do better than others:
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Similar characters should be distinct: eg, uppercase O and number 0. Uppercase I, lowercase l, and number 1. It’s weird how many popular coding fonts fail to make these clear.
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Not too wide, and not too narrow. You’d think monospace fonts are all around the same size horizontally, but a standard 80-column slab of code can vary greatly in screen space width depending on the font, some are much too wide. I like to have the option to tile three code panes side-by-side on a 1080P screen.
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Easy to read. For some reason a lot of coding-specific fonts affect my ability to quickly and easily read the code, and some give me a headache.
I realised that my use of Inconsolata for such a long time in the early stages of my career definitely shaped my preferences. I was looking for something similar to Inconsolata. That was when I discovered Fantasque Sans Mono. It’s a kind of weird looking font, maybe a bit too playful for a serious coding font, but I found I could read and parse code much faster (maybe it helps with mild dyslexia?), each letter is very distinct from every other. It has elements of handwriting, it has elements of a dyslexic font, it has similarities to Inconsolata.
I’ve been using Fantasque (with Nerdfonts mixins) for 4 years now. Since then there has been a renaissance of code fonts, like Jet Brains Mono, and First Code. I like those, they are good fonts, but I keep going back to Fantasque, it feels so comfortable to use.
outcide@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fantasque was my favourite before Recursive. Kinda miss it still …
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OvermindDL1@programming.dev 6 months ago
Hack, just outright, so clean and clear and easy to read.
unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
And where l is not the same as 1
Albbi@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 6 months ago
Was reading about Monaspace earlier. How would you compare it against something like Fira Code?
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve been trying a new font every few months for years - and then I discovered Intel One Mono:
github.com/intel/intel-one-mono
Hard to describe what I like about the font but it just feels perfect.
evatronic@lemm.ee 6 months ago
fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro
Source code pro for quite some time.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Modern DOS 8x16. I like the nostalgic look and boxiness.
revoopy@programming.dev 6 months ago
Jetbrains Mono with Need Fonts
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Default VS Code font, whatever that is. I prefer no ligatures; I find them distracting.
dukk@programming.dev 5 months ago
IIRC, should be Cascadia Code.
sjpwarren@programming.dev 5 months ago
Me too. I don’t understand why people like ligatures.
punkwalrus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have been partial to Proggy fonts for over a decade
oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Iosevka, 100%. I’ve tried out a few others, but I keep returning.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Whatever is the default.
Maturi0n@feddit.de 6 months ago
Ubuntu Mono. Though I don’t use Ubuntu.
vrkr@programming.dev 6 months ago
My own variant of Iosevka
catalyst@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve used IBM Plex Mono for a long time. Currently giving github’s new Monaspace a try.
aport@programming.dev 6 months ago
IBM Plex Mono is such a fancy, refined font. The line spacing is a bit too high for my liking though 😞
adamnejm@programming.dev 6 months ago
JetBrains Mono all the way.
There’s also a new kid in town - Monaspace, its texture healing feature is pretty interesting. I might give it a try later.
technojamin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As a JetBrains Mono user for the past couple of years, I used Monaspace all day this past Friday to try it out, and it was not for me. The oval shape of JetBrains Mono glyphs is so aesthetically pleasing to me, and I don’t think I’d be able to switch to another font that doesn’t have similar styling.
tun@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Monaspace AUR-packaged fonts do not registered as monospace font in ArchLinux.
Though Konsole can be configured to use the font, Kitty does not recognize it. Manual install in macOS works for Kitty.
I like Neon and Argon variants of Monaspace.
My favorite was PragmataPro (not free) but it has different glyphs from Nerd Fonts. Similar ones are Iosevka, Victor, Mplus 1 code. Now new favorite is JetbrainsMono NF.
SF code, Fira Code are also in the favorite list.
Lab mono, fragment Mono are nice and planning to try them.
Generally I like condense (but not too condesed) round fonts.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I used Dejavu sans mono (but modded to have a slashed
0. It’s based on Gnome’s Vera font, but at the time it had a very large open type feature set that appealed to me.dejavu-fonts.github.io