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Was a long time input user until Jetbrains Mono was released: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ To my eyes it's the best fo

Was a long time input user until Jetbrains Mono was released: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ To my eyes it's the best font for coding (SF Mono on the Mac being another nice one that I like on the terminal)

willemlabu 6y ago
Came here to say this. JetBrains Mono is my favourite code-font. The ligatures are excellent too.
eknkc 6y ago
After using Jetbrains Mono for a while, I switched completely to Cascadia Code (https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code). Looks great
- hnbad 6y ago
  Personally I prefer Hack (https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/) but I used Ubuntu Mono (https://design.ubuntu.com/font/ https://design.ubuntu.com/font/) before. I find the harsh serifs in many monospace fonts too jarring but this comes down to taste.
- ruph123 6y ago
  I love this font so much. Actually I use the nerdfonted version "Caskaydia". It just sucks that it does not have italics. But just the last month I was trying out every other font under the sun (with ligatures), including checking out some commercial ones, but none of these is so damn readable while still being rather dense with the perfect weight and expressiveness than Cascadia. It makes the code so much prettier. However I am extremely open to alternatives that look similar but have italics.
alpaca128 6y ago
It looks nice overall, but I can't get over the jarring edges on the M. And to this day I don't get why so many great fonts have a dot inside the digit 0 instead of a stroke. Minor details, absolutely. But with the number of newly released coding fonts you gotta compare them somehow.
- threepio 6y ago
  > I don't get why so many great fonts have a dot inside the digit 0 instead of a stroke A slashed zero often looks too similar to the figure 8
- cormullion 6y ago
  Input Mono, like many monospaced fonts, has the `zero slash` extra, which you can should be able to use if your application lets you choose the alternates and stylistic sets provided by OpenType fonts (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/otspec140/features_uz#zero https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/otspec1...). And, in the case of Input Mono, it's also provided in the Private Use Area, at UEO5C. (There are other characters that are frustratingly similar to the zero. There are the oslashes at U00D8 and U00F8, the Ocentered tilde at U019F, various thetas, the circled dash at U229D, the circled fraction at U2298, the circled minus at U2296, the empty set at U2205, the diameter sign at U300, etc etc. The dot is quite a nice solution.)

willemlabu 6y ago

Came here to say this. JetBrains Mono is my favourite code-font. The ligatures are excellent too.

eknkc 6y ago

After using Jetbrains Mono for a while, I switched completely to Cascadia Code (https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code). Looks great

hnbad 6y ago
Personally I prefer Hack (https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/) but I used Ubuntu Mono (https://design.ubuntu.com/font/ https://design.ubuntu.com/font/) before. I find the harsh serifs in many monospace fonts too jarring but this comes down to taste.
ruph123 6y ago
I love this font so much. Actually I use the nerdfonted version "Caskaydia". It just sucks that it does not have italics. But just the last month I was trying out every other font under the sun (with ligatures), including checking out some commercial ones, but none of these is so damn readable while still being rather dense with the perfect weight and expressiveness than Cascadia. It makes the code so much prettier. However I am extremely open to alternatives that look similar but have italics.

alpaca128 6y ago

It looks nice overall, but I can't get over the jarring edges on the M. And to this day I don't get why so many great fonts have a dot inside the digit 0 instead of a stroke. Minor details, absolutely. But with the number of newly released coding fonts you gotta compare them somehow.

threepio 6y ago
> I don't get why so many great fonts have a dot inside the digit 0 instead of a stroke A slashed zero often looks too similar to the figure 8
cormullion 6y ago
Input Mono, like many monospaced fonts, has the `zero slash` extra, which you can should be able to use if your application lets you choose the alternates and stylistic sets provided by OpenType fonts (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/otspec140/features_uz#zero https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/otspec1...). And, in the case of Input Mono, it's also provided in the Private Use Area, at UEO5C. (There are other characters that are frustratingly similar to the zero. There are the oslashes at U00D8 and U00F8, the Ocentered tilde at U019F, various thetas, the circled dash at U229D, the circled fraction at U2298, the circled minus at U2296, the empty set at U2205, the diameter sign at U300, etc etc. The dot is quite a nice solution.)