What is your favourite font for code ?
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Mine is
https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/
It is a very minimal clean looking monospace font with support for ligatures. What is yours ?
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.
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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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.
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.
https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/
Edit: bumped send before finishing thought…
Fira was my replacement, but I never really could get used to the operators ligatures, so left them disabled. I’m about to switch and try Neon or Argon (though I may end up mixing them a bit if it’s not too much work). Jetbrains has a neat design, but the r and f feel really out of place and I’d have to mod them to not be annoyed all the time.
I always just use my ide default. Never really had an issue to change it in any ide that I've used.
Intellij's is very pleasing to the eye
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.
One thing I really like about Hack and Gintronic is the very laid back parentheses. They don't try to enclose the characters inside them like some fonts. 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.
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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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"
I think my love of the font comes from how comfy everything feels. A lot of nice curves 😉.
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
I was expecting someone to say wingdings when I posted the question, but this is one better 😁
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.
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.
EDIT: After checking the website (and looking at the operator again), the font uses custom ligatures. However, the full version also costs $150.
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
Fira Code was my font of choice for a while, but now I use JetBrains Mono! Cascadia Code is also acceptable.
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.
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.
DVSM is timeless. IMO Hack makes a few subtle improvements like the zero, i/l, and some punctuation characters
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.
Was reading about Monaspace earlier. How would you compare it against something like Fira Code?
I've been trying a new font every few months for years - and then I discovered Intel One Mono:
https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono
Hard to describe what I like about the font but it just feels perfect.