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There are a couple of things missing from this tool to be useful to me. * Filter only fonts that have bold/italic styles. Faux bold/italic looks awful. * Filt

There are a couple of things missing from this tool to be useful to me. * Filter only fonts that have bold/italic styles. Faux bold/italic looks awful. * Filter by language support. If fonts don't support the Latin Extended range, then words in other languages switch to the fallback font in the middle of the word. * Show fonts side by side For filtering, Font Squirrel [1] can be used. This example filters fonts with bold/italic, open source license and latin extended language support. For comparing side by side, Coding Font [2] can be used. Cousine is my font of choice - it has very extensive language support (~2400 glyphs including Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic [3]), it supports bold/italic styles and it looks great. 1. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/find_fonts?filter%5Bclassifications%5D%5B0%5D=monospaced&filter%5Bdownload%5D=local&filter%5Bfamily_size%5D=4&filter%5Blanguages%5D%5B0%5D=polish https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/find_fonts?filter%5B... 2. https://www.codingfont.com/ https://www.codingfont.com/ 3. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/cousine?q%5Bterm%5D=Cousine&q%5Bsearch_check%5D=Y https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/cousine?q%5Bterm%5D=Cousi... (Glyphs tab)

greymalik 4y ago
I’d also like to be able to mark some as favorites and the filter by that. As I scroll through trying different options I want to remember the ones I liked best as I narrow it down from 111 candidates to something more manageable.
pxeger1 4y ago
Why do you want italics in a monospace font? I can't imagine ever wanting that.
- smcn 4y ago
  Not OP but I don't use syntax highlighting, so italics makes the comments stand out a little for when I'm quickly scanning code.
  - thfuran 4y ago
    Why do you not use syntax highlighting?
    - smcn 4y ago
      I find it too busy, truth be told. Colours pull my eyes in too many directions when I'm trying to read code. It started because I'm picky when it comes to colour schemes. I'd find one or two things that annoy me and I don't personally have the imagination to fix it, so I'll try to find something else. Or I would get bored of a particular colour scheme and go hunting for something new and fresh. Removing it took a bit to get used to but now I can't stand going back. I don't personally subscribe to the Rob Pike idea that syntax highlighting is for babies or whatever, to each their own.
      - CharlesW 4y ago
        I’ve always thought of any automatic stylistic change as “stylistic highlighting”, so now I’m curious if that’s a rare opinion. I’m with you that colors can easily start to impede readability. I’m a fan of subtle, judicious color use, so I’ll often start with a palette but knock back the colors from there. What typeface(s) do you like for its italics?
        smcn 4y ago
        Right now I'm trying out JetBrains mono. I don't really require much from italics but at least some visual distinction. So far I'm enjoying it. I used Victor Mono for a bit there and I'm still unsure if I like cursive italics or not. They're interesting and fun, but sometimes I think they're a bit too out there, if that makes sense? My go-to is usually Ubuntu Mono. That might be my favourite font.
        kcartlidge 4y ago
        Depending upon your motivation for monospace, the iA Writer site offers my current favourite: IA Writer Duospace. If you want monospace for the crisp, clear, draft-style, clutter-free look when writing code (or similar) then it's excellent. If you absolutely must have every character being exactly the same width then less so as the main difference is that it is monospace for everything except 'm', 'M', 'w', and 'W' which are each 1.5 wide (so it takes two to bring things back in alignment). In practice that is often less of an issue than it seems, and the benefit in readability/clarity/looks (literal mono for those characters makes them compressed) makes it worth giving it a try, even if you only end up using it for Markdown files etc. They have a web page explaining it (alongside a download): https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font
- dleslie 4y ago
  I use a near-monotone, dark and monospaced font and coloring; italics and bold replace color differentiation. I find color themes with more than one or two front face hues to be tiring to look at.
- shaicoleman 4y ago
  > Why do you want italics in a monospace font? I can't imagine ever wanting that. For the same reasons you'd want to use italics in a proportional font - for emphasis or contrast. 1. Syntax highlighting which uses both color and font style, e.g. class name are italicised by default in my editor (Sublime Text). 2. Editing markdown/HTML files with italics tags/markup. 3. Also, italics also work on the console, and some console/TUI apps may use it.
- dan-robertson 4y ago
  Use italics to make comments obvious instead of making them some colour that doesn’t contrast with the background much. Comments are pretty important so I don’t know why typical syntax highlighting obscures them. I think italics make them conspicuous and conspicuously not code.
  - matejn 4y ago
    I also don't understand the default muted grey comments. I usually configure comments to be a bright red color.
    - akira2501 4y ago
      I can just highlight the region if I really want to read it, but mostly, I don't want comments competing for attention in my code and I write a _lot_ of comments in there. It's generally a 1:1 ratio in what I write, so if my comments were bright red my eyes would be burning at the end of the day.

greymalik 4y ago

I’d also like to be able to mark some as favorites and the filter by that. As I scroll through trying different options I want to remember the ones I liked best as I narrow it down from 111 candidates to something more manageable.

pxeger1 4y ago

Why do you want italics in a monospace font? I can't imagine ever wanting that.

smcn 4y ago
Not OP but I don't use syntax highlighting, so italics makes the comments stand out a little for when I'm quickly scanning code.
- thfuran 4y ago
  Why do you not use syntax highlighting?
  - smcn 4y ago
    I find it too busy, truth be told. Colours pull my eyes in too many directions when I'm trying to read code. It started because I'm picky when it comes to colour schemes. I'd find one or two things that annoy me and I don't personally have the imagination to fix it, so I'll try to find something else. Or I would get bored of a particular colour scheme and go hunting for something new and fresh. Removing it took a bit to get used to but now I can't stand going back. I don't personally subscribe to the Rob Pike idea that syntax highlighting is for babies or whatever, to each their own.
    - CharlesW 4y ago
      I’ve always thought of any automatic stylistic change as “stylistic highlighting”, so now I’m curious if that’s a rare opinion. I’m with you that colors can easily start to impede readability. I’m a fan of subtle, judicious color use, so I’ll often start with a palette but knock back the colors from there. What typeface(s) do you like for its italics?
      - smcn 4y ago
        Right now I'm trying out JetBrains mono. I don't really require much from italics but at least some visual distinction. So far I'm enjoying it. I used Victor Mono for a bit there and I'm still unsure if I like cursive italics or not. They're interesting and fun, but sometimes I think they're a bit too out there, if that makes sense? My go-to is usually Ubuntu Mono. That might be my favourite font.
        kcartlidge 4y ago
        Depending upon your motivation for monospace, the iA Writer site offers my current favourite: IA Writer Duospace. If you want monospace for the crisp, clear, draft-style, clutter-free look when writing code (or similar) then it's excellent. If you absolutely must have every character being exactly the same width then less so as the main difference is that it is monospace for everything except 'm', 'M', 'w', and 'W' which are each 1.5 wide (so it takes two to bring things back in alignment). In practice that is often less of an issue than it seems, and the benefit in readability/clarity/looks (literal mono for those characters makes them compressed) makes it worth giving it a try, even if you only end up using it for Markdown files etc. They have a web page explaining it (alongside a download): https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font
dleslie 4y ago
I use a near-monotone, dark and monospaced font and coloring; italics and bold replace color differentiation. I find color themes with more than one or two front face hues to be tiring to look at.
shaicoleman 4y ago
> Why do you want italics in a monospace font? I can't imagine ever wanting that. For the same reasons you'd want to use italics in a proportional font - for emphasis or contrast. 1. Syntax highlighting which uses both color and font style, e.g. class name are italicised by default in my editor (Sublime Text). 2. Editing markdown/HTML files with italics tags/markup. 3. Also, italics also work on the console, and some console/TUI apps may use it.
dan-robertson 4y ago
Use italics to make comments obvious instead of making them some colour that doesn’t contrast with the background much. Comments are pretty important so I don’t know why typical syntax highlighting obscures them. I think italics make them conspicuous and conspicuously not code.
- matejn 4y ago
  I also don't understand the default muted grey comments. I usually configure comments to be a bright red color.
  - akira2501 4y ago
    I can just highlight the region if I really want to read it, but mostly, I don't want comments competing for attention in my code and I write a _lot_ of comments in there. It's generally a 1:1 ratio in what I write, so if my comments were bright red my eyes would be burning at the end of the day.