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I'm in the same boat, every time one of these threads pop up I try a few different fonts recommended here but I always end up going back to DejaVu. It think it
by simias 8y ago
I'm in the same boat, every time one of these threads pop up I try a few different fonts recommended here but I always end up going back to DejaVu. It think it looks pretty good, it has good Unicode coverage, it's supported out of the box on most distros...
It's weird because I can be pretty snobbish and opinionated with a lot of programming-related stuff (I use a very expensive keyboard, a large 4k screen, a heavily customized editor and window manager etc...) but when it comes to fonts I really have a hard time finding a real improvement with some of the very expensive fonts people are recommending in this thread compared to good old DevaVu.
I would be very interested to read an article that would explain in details what makes certain fonts better or worse than others, especially for programming.
- platz 8y agoI switched from using devavu for years finally to iosevka
- shittyadmin 8y agoHad a look at iosevka - it definitely seems nicer than many of the others, but it still feels too vertical when compared to DejaVu in my opinion. Is there something that sold you on it?
- platz 8y agoWell, it certainly is more vertical. The increased x-height allows it to be readable at small sizes (and fit more horizontally) which looks great in the terminal and editor, but maybe a bit odd on the test page.
- shittyadmin 8y agoWell, a week later and I think I'm a convert. I didn't like the look at first, but after using it in my IDE and actually typing with it, it's quite nice. Thanks.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoI've also switched to iosevka after many years of dejavu sans mono. I really like the brackets of iosevka, and its italics. I also appreciate the customisability of it, and the fact that the font itself is in some ways built rather like Computer Modern via METAFONT (and that it uses a Lisp-like language to do so).