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meter_kilo ( meter_kilo@lemm.ee )  to Programming@programming.dev · 3 years ago

What is your favourite font for code ?

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What is your favourite font for code ?

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meter_kilo ( meter_kilo@lemm.ee )  to Programming@programming.dev · 3 years ago
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Mine is mononoki

https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/

It is a very minimal clean looking monospace font with support for ligatures. What is yours ?

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  • Name ( adamnejm@programming.dev ) 
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    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.

    • tun ( tun@lemm.ee ) 
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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.

      • nilloc ( nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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        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.

    • AlexWIWA ( AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ) 
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      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

  • glibg10b ( glibg10b@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Fira Code, but I haven’t used anything else with ligatures

    • TuxOfStars ( TuxOfStars@beehaw.org ) 
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      +1 for Fira Code

  • NegativeLookBehind ( NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ) 
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    Webdings.

    • bingbong ( bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      3 years ago

      Webdings.

    • meter_kilo ( meter_kilo@lemm.ee ) OP
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      I was expecting someone to say wingdings when I posted the question, but this is one better 😁

  • corytheboyd ( corytheboyd@kbin.social ) 
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    The one that comes with the IDE, because I don’t really care.

    • schnurrito ( schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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      That is fine as long as it is one where l1I are easy to distinguish.

  • midnight ( midnight@kbin.social ) 
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    Iosevka.

    • meter_kilo ( meter_kilo@lemm.ee ) OP
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      Nice one. https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

  • schnurrito ( schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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    DejaVu Sans Mono

    • aport ( aport@programming.dev ) 
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      DVSM is timeless. IMO Hack makes a few subtle improvements like the zero, i/l, and some punctuation characters

    • Max-P ( Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ) 
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      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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    I love ligatures and Fira Code (retina) is the best and absolutely comfortable for me.

  • silas ( silas@programming.dev ) 
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    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.

    • ArmokGoB ( ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      • silas ( silas@programming.dev ) 
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        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

  • beefsquatch ( beefsquatch@programming.dev ) 
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    Victor Mono

  • sping ( sping@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    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.

  • Albbi ( Albbi@lemmy.ca ) 
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    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.

    • TheMadnessKing ( TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id ) 
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      Was reading about Monaspace earlier. How would you compare it against something like Fira Code?

  • agilob ( agilob@programming.dev ) 
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    https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

  • vrkr ( vrkr@programming.dev ) 
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    My own variant of Iosevka

  • OvermindDL1 ( OvermindDL1@programming.dev ) 
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    Hack, just outright, so clean and clear and easy to read.

    • unique_hemp ( unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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      And where l is not the same as 1

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    Been using Input Mono for the past 5 or so years.

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