What is your favourite font for code ?

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• adamnejm@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • technojamin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • tun@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• Gur814@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like Fira Code a lot.

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  • smoof@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used to use First Code until I found Iosevka.

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  • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was using Anonymous Pro before discovering Fira Code.

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• MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • muhanga@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you for sharing link to the site! I have found 4 new terminal fonts to try.

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• corytheboyd@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The one that comes with the IDE, because I don’t really care.

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is fine as long as it is one where l1I are easy to distinguish.

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  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    so brave

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• ripe_banana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like hack. I use it for everything.

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  • nezbyte@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • A_A@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”

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    • ripe_banana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think my love of the font is how comfy everything feels. A lot of nice curves 😉.

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• colonial@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can’t beat Iosevka in my opinion. I use the Term variant for my shell as well.

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  • kamiheku@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Amen. I’m currently using Iosvmata, a custom build of Iosevka.

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• NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Webdings.

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  • meter_kilo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was expecting someone to say wingdings when I posted the question, but this is one better 😁

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  • bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Webdings.

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• silas@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love MonaLisa a lot. I’ve been using it for pretty much all monospace throughout my computer. It feels very fine-tuned and well thought out, and it’s very readable too.

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  • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My only complaint, based on the image you posted, is that I had to look at the len above the === to tell how many equal signs there were in that operator.

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    • silas@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• sping@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ubuntu Mono since 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.

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• midnight@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Iosevka.

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  • meter_kilo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nice one. typeof.net/Iosevka/

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• Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fira Code was my font of choice for a while, but now I use JetBrains Mono! Cascadia Code is also acceptable.

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• fzz@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love ligatures and Fira Code (retina) is the best and absolutely comfortable for me.

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• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• agilob@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

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• beefsquatch@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Victor Mono

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  • theherk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• 257m@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jetbrains Mono. There is no other option for me.

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  • dbilitated@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    likewise, with ligatures!

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  DejaVu Sans Mono

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  • aport@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    DVSM is timeless. IMO Hack makes a few subtle improvements like the zero, i/l, and some punctuation characters

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  • Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• flubba86@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • outcide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fantasque was my favourite before Recursive. Kinda miss it still …

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• OvermindDL1@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hack, just outright, so clean and clear and easy to read.

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  • unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And where l is not the same as 1

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• Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m trying out the new monaspace font. The variable width of wide letters is interesting and seamless, you don’t notice it happening.

  Before that, I was using monolisa.

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  • TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Was reading about Monaspace earlier. How would you compare it against something like Fira Code?

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• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• evatronic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro

  Source code pro for quite some time.

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  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Modern DOS 8x16. I like the nostalgic look and boxiness.

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• revoopy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jetbrains Mono with Need Fonts

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Default VS Code font, whatever that is. I prefer no ligatures; I find them distracting.

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  • dukk@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    IIRC, should be Cascadia Code.

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  • sjpwarren@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Me too. I don’t understand why people like ligatures.

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• punkwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have been partial to Proggy fonts for over a decade

  proggyfonts.net/index.php?menu=download

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• oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Iosevka, 100%. I’ve tried out a few others, but I keep returning.

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• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Whatever is the default.

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• Maturi0n@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ubuntu Mono. Though I don’t use Ubuntu.

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• vrkr@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My own variant of Iosevka

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• catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve used IBM Plex Mono for a long time. Currently giving github’s new Monaspace a try.

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  • aport@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    IBM Plex Mono is such a fancy, refined font. The line spacing is a bit too high for my liking though 😞

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