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I absolutely do. I'm not sure why, it's not something I specifically pay attention to, but I definitely appreciate text in some fonts more than others. For exam

I absolutely do. I'm not sure why, it's not something I specifically pay attention to, but I definitely appreciate text in some fonts more than others. For example, I really liked The Economist's print font (and I don't mind the redesign [1]) That said, I once spent a couple weeks trying out various programming fonts/sizes, so maybe I'm an outlier. (I'm on Mac now, and the system Monaco font is fine. I don't remember what I had settled on when I was using Linux until 6 years ago) I have to add that I recently upgraded from a 2k 27" monitor to a 4k one, and the first thing I noticed is how much nicer all the text is (again, macOS) [1] https://designmodo.com/the-economist-redesign/ https://designmodo.com/the-economist-redesign/

AceJohnny2 5y ago
That said, programming fonts are a particular niche of interest, because first you want your ambiguous glyphs to be easily distinguishable. O vs 0 vs o, l vs I vs 1 vs i, and secondly you want the overall feel to be pleasing to you. Other considerations are how does the font render g (is there a loop at the bottom, or just a tail) or a (does it have a "tail" at the top or is more like an o with an extra leg?). People can get really worked up about these details, just like a coding style guide: if it differs from what you're expecting, it's distracting, but you get used to it after a few days/weeks. Since last I went on this journey, I see that this wonderful website for comparing programming fonts popped up: https://www.programmingfonts.org https://www.programmingfonts.org