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What proportional font do you use? I'd like to give coding in a proportional font a try but would like something designed for programming instead of just experi
by kbd 9y ago
What proportional font do you use? I'd like to give coding in a proportional font a try but would like something designed for programming instead of just experimenting with Verdana.
- Stratoscope 9y agoYeah, Verdana is not great. I used to use Georgia, but when I started doing more on OSX I found that it didn't render well in all apps - the character strokes were too skinny. It looked great in Windows though. For the last couple of years have been using Trebuchet MS. It's not designed specifically for programming, but it has many of the attributes of a good coding font, in particular all of the easily confused characters like 0Oo and 1Il are easily distinguished. The one thing I don't like about Trebuchet is that it has a really terrible tilde (~). Sometime I will sit down with a font editor and swap in a better tilde. I tend to use largish fonts on a high-DPI display, and Trebuchet really looks nice with that setup, both on Windows and macOS. Someone else recommended Input, which is designed for programming and comes in both proportional and monospaced variants. When I tried Input it didn't look as nice as Trebuchet MS to my eyes though. That will give you a few to try out!