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Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

24 points by humility 12y ago

Ruud-v-A 12y ago
Consolas. I have tried Vera Sans Mono and Source Sans, but nothing comes close to Consolas.
bennyp101 12y ago
I used Hermit (https://pcaro.es/p/hermit/ https://pcaro.es/p/hermit/) for a while when it first appeared, but now I use Source code pro from adobe (http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayFontPackage&code=1960 http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=d...) Otherwise I think it was Monaco way before those.
quantisan 12y ago
Inconsolata http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
- Lorem-Ipsum 12y ago
  Inconsolata-dz here with the powerline patch.
- Turing_Machine 12y ago
  +1 for Inconsolata.
- inDigiNeous 12y ago
  Inconsolata here too, with vim and the MadeOfCode theme: http://madeofcode.com/posts/29-photo-my-new-textmate-theme-8220-made-of-code-8221-mdash-download-9-feb-2010-update-t http://madeofcode.com/posts/29-photo-my-new-textmate-theme-8...
- krispyfi 12y ago
  If you program with Japanese comments, I really recommend Ricty. It's a combination of Inconsolata for Latin characters and an IPA font variant called Migu 1M for Japanese characters in the same dimensions. I've never seen it as a binary, so you have to run a script to build it yourself. https://github.com/yascentur/Ricty https://github.com/yascentur/Ricty
- rjsw 12y ago
  I use Inconsolata in most applications except emacs. I'm using a fairly old version of emacs without Xft2 support so use codec[1] with it. [1] http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/codec.html http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/codec.html
argimenes 12y ago
Cousine is currently my favourite ... quite readable in large and small sizes.
dgellow 12y ago
In Emacs (GUI): Droid Sans Mono https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono In my terminal: Source Code Pro https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+Pro https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+Pro
- jacobroufa 12y ago
  Have you tried Droid Sans Mono Slashed? I find that the slashed 0 helps readability quite a bit.
mattkrea 12y ago
https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font Meslo. Can't get enough of it.
chippy 12y ago
Monospace 9 (in Geany) Liberation Mono (in Vim / Terminal)
ljoshua 12y ago
Adobe's Source Code Pro is my favorite: http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayFontPackage&code=1960 http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=d...
- notduncansmith 12y ago
  +1 for Source Code Pro. Looks lovely in my editor and my terminal.
Pephers 12y ago
Menlo Regular in 11 pt. I use it in Sublime Text and also for my Terminal Monokai theme: https://github.com/Pephers/monokai-for-terminal-app https://github.com/Pephers/monokai-for-terminal-app
brainburn 12y ago
Cosmic Sans Neue Mono Note there's an S in Cosmic :) https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
- charlesism 12y ago
  Thanks, that's one snazzy programming font. I'm definitely giving it a try. Edit: it's nice at small sizes. They should have made a hairline variant though, for larger sizes, as it's pretty bold and the characters aren't as distinct as the could be. Think I'll keep using it for a while longer and see how it goes
emikulic 12y ago
Terminus, Proggy, or Triskweline. I can't stand stroked fonts in a terminal.
GnarfGnarf 12y ago
Courier New (Visual Studio). I keep trying other stuff, but they are a distraction. Courier New does not draw attention to itself, just seems to blend in, and the code communicates directly to you.
- teamhappy 12y ago
  I'm a huge fan of Adobe's Source Code Pro, but you might wanna take a look at Courier Prime: http://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/ http://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/
  - GnarfGnarf 12y ago
    Courier Prime is a very attractive font. Unfortunately the leading (inter-line spacing, pronounced "ledding") is 18% bigger than Courier New. In a full screen of code, I lose 7 lines. That means less visible code, more scrolling up & down. I suppose there are font editors to adjust that. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
johncoltrane 12y ago
I've used Inconsolata exclusively (the original first [1], then the -dz variant [2], then the -g variant [3]) since 2002 or 2003. I've recently switched to Fira Mono [4], designed by the awesome Erik Spiekermann for Mozilla. [1] http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html [2] http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-double-quotes-inconsola/ http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou... [3] http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html [4] https://github.com/mozilla/Fira https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
Prefinem 12y ago
Deja Vu Sans Mono
izietto 12y ago
Ubuntu Mono https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono I like it a lot. Here an example of Sublime Text 3 + Ubuntu Mono 10pt + Blackboard Theme: http://imgur.com/qW8yyi0 http://imgur.com/qW8yyi0
- sp332 12y ago
  I like Ubuntu Mono, but on some screens (probably depending on antialiasing settings?) it looks too fuzzy and I switch to Inconsolata. It seems one of those two will look good in any setting. Or if I have to deal with no anti-aliasing, Proggy TT is a nice (small, ~9pt) monochrome font.
- cranium 12y ago
  I use Ubuntu Mono 14pt in iTerm2 and kinda like using a font that big ! http://imgur.com/7Bdtuge http://imgur.com/7Bdtuge
  - qzc4 12y ago
    What triangle character are you using there in your prompt? Sorry, but I haven't found a way to make it 'stick' to the background before it using any font (at least at 14pt). Edit: OK, I found the character/theme you are using, but what version of Ubuntu Mono do you have? It won't handle that for me :/ Edit 2: I found a Powerline patched version, but that doesn't seem to work either… Maybe I will just switch back to Consolas
- thegeomaster 12y ago
  I used Inconsolata, Monaco, Source Code Pro, Consolas, Pragmata Pro, but in the end settled with Ubuntu Mono. I use it in Vim with the great Solarized color scheme, and it's a pleasure to look at.
seanmcdirmid 12y ago
Segoe UI. I will never use a fixed width font again, though I wish I could find something better then Segoe.
Argorak 12y ago
Fira Sans Mono. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os/typeface/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os... (not displayed, but the download includes a Mono variant)
- spatz 12y ago
  Fira Mono is really beautiful, but the problem I have with it is the vertical spacing. The lines are so far apart, almost nothing fits in the screen.
  - Argorak 12y ago
    One's joy, the others pain. I like that ;).
davewiner 12y ago
Geneva. I don't understand why programmers use monospace fonts, other than some kind of tradition.
- yangyang 12y ago
  Alignment probably more than anything, though obviously the necessity for that depends on the language and style.
  - davewiner 12y ago
    Alignment of what?? Not left edges. Even in non-monospace fonts, every blank is the same with, same with every tab.
    - yangyang 12y ago
      Consider aligned colons, something like { a : 10, ab : 40 } If space and "b" are not the same width, that won't look great in a proportional font.
- iopq 12y ago
  I actually tried a programming font that is not monospace and it's not an issue. Left side is aligned the same anyway and I don't care if lines don't align on the right side.
- GnarfGnarf 12y ago
  That is an interesting observation. Perhaps it is due to habit. After 45 years of programming (started with punched cards), I am accustomed to fixed-pitch fonts. Proportional fonts for code seem unintelligible to me. It is worth noting that all quality programming publications display code in fixed pitch. Knuth, in his epochal "Art of Computer Programming", uses fixed-pitch serif for source code. Petzold's "Programming Windows" uses fixed-pitch, as does Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language".
  - davewiner 12y ago
h1d 12y ago
BPMono
jimlei 12y ago
I think the default fonts work great so I have never changed the font of the editor(s) I use. Am I weird?
- sjtrny 12y ago
  No, I'm the same way too. I've never even thought about changing the font in IDEs or terminal.
bberrry 12y ago
I am hugely anal about this topic and I've tried all fonts mentioned at the time of this post. In the end, Consolas has racked up the most miles during my coding and Proggy Tiny for the output console (allows you to fit quite a lot). Don't get me started on color theme.
- isxek 12y ago
  > Proggy Tiny for the input console I would humbly suggest trying either MonteCarlo [1] or its derivative, Tamsyn [2]. Certain characters (like the "@" symbol) look much better in either of these fonts. [1] http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/ http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/ [2] http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/
  - swah 12y ago
    Tamsyn doesn't work for me in Sublime Text 3 - do you know why?
gjvc 12y ago
X11 10x20 since 1996
lucianp 12y ago
My favorite is Source Code Pro by Adobe [1]. I use it on Mac OS X and Ubuntu. On Windows I have to use Consolas, because SCP does not render well in gVim for Windows (at least not on my system). Note that Source Code Pro does not have an Italic typeface yet. Italics are commonly used for source code comments and most editors will automatically emulate the shapes, often with poor results. Active development is currently being done in this direction [2]. [1]. http://dwabyick.github.io/Source-Code-Pro http://dwabyick.github.io/Source-Code-Pro [2]. https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/issues/6 https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/issues/6
- quantisan 12y ago
  [2] was raised in 2012 and still in discussion. I have no idea how fonts are made. Why does it take 2+ years to make a font italic?
  - Tomte 12y ago
    Because you need to come up with a design for the cursive variant and then draw all those glyphs. So the time needed is probably shorter than the time spent on the regular variant, but only by a small factor, certainly not orders of magnitude.
    - lucianp 12y ago
      You are right. From reading the comments on the issue [2], this seems to be the reason why it takes so long. Although I have now idea of how fonts are made, I think the work needs to be done for all currently available weights (7 different weights).
    - sp332 12y ago
      The glyphs can look completely different in italic. http://www.fffranziska.com/#sec_italics http://www.fffranziska.com/#sec_italics And after drawing the glyphs, manually checking and adjusting the kerning between every pair of glyphs takes a lot of time too.
  - lukeholder 12y ago
grakic 12y ago
PragmataPro
- antonios 12y ago
  I'll second that. Very nice and well-hinted font, with quite a bit of unicode coverage as well. Definitely worth the money.
- neonlex 12y ago
  I used this font since more than a year. It's great but a week ago I started using Source Code Pro.
Jgrubb 12y ago
I always try out the others, but I always come back to Monaco.
8ig8 12y ago
Build your own... http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/ http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/
dham 12y ago
Source Code Pro
irickt 12y ago
Luxi mono, because it has the most attractive serifs I've seen.
Semaphor 12y ago
I used to use Anonymous Pro, now I use Consolas.
robinhoodexe 12y ago
Source Code Pro
emilsoman 12y ago
14 pt Menlo Regular. Pic : https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1707078/3491472/9ce4f452-0592-11e4-8be6-ade4e4ba0748.png https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1707078/3491472/9...
wsloth514 12y ago
Hermit 14pt https://pcaro.es/p/hermit/ https://pcaro.es/p/hermit/
sever 12y ago
I'm a font fetishist, so over many years I've tried many fonts. Settled on Maax Mono [1], I find it to be remarkably beautiful. [1] https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/gautier/maax-mono/ https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/gautier/maax-mono/
- swah 12y ago
  Do you use it outisde retina environments?
p3lim 12y ago
Been using Proggy for a long time, it's a nice, readable monospace font.
teebsd 12y ago
Ubuntu Font http://font.ubuntu.com/ http://font.ubuntu.com/
Tiksi 12y ago
I use tamsyn (http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/) where I can. It's a bitmap font and looks great at small sizes. However since it's a bitmap font there's a few places that it can't be used.
- swah 12y ago
  Interesting to me how the very clear bitmap fonts are so close to Terminus/linux fonts. Its almost like there is only one way to put the pixels.
swah 12y ago
Nobody mentions if they use Retina when recommending those "newer" fonts. I imagine most fonts that "only look good in 48pt" in my screen can be used for coding in Retina screens (never seen one of those). BUT when using low-dpi monitors, very few get the hinting right, and bitmap (6x13 [1]) is king. [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/fonts/ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/fonts/
Ragu 12y ago
I'm Mainly using google fonts. Its awesome and nice.Professional fonts are available at google fonts. Try it here https://www.google.com/fonts https://www.google.com/fonts We also tried font-family: 'Andika', sans-serif; http://courseeplus.com/aboutus/ http://courseeplus.com/aboutus/
tokanizar 12y ago
I just made a switch to Input (http://input.fontbureau.com http://input.fontbureau.com). Before that, I used Source Code Pro.

24 points by humility 12y ago

Consolas. I have tried Vera Sans Mono and Source Sans, but nothing comes close to Consolas.

I used Hermit (https://pcaro.es/p/hermit/ https://pcaro.es/p/hermit/) for a while when it first appeared, but now I use Source code pro from adobe (http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayFontPackage&code=1960 http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=d...) Otherwise I think it was Monaco way before those.

quantisan 12y ago

Inconsolata http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

Lorem-Ipsum 12y ago
Inconsolata-dz here with the powerline patch.
Turing_Machine 12y ago
+1 for Inconsolata.
inDigiNeous 12y ago
Inconsolata here too, with vim and the MadeOfCode theme: http://madeofcode.com/posts/29-photo-my-new-textmate-theme-8220-made-of-code-8221-mdash-download-9-feb-2010-update-t http://madeofcode.com/posts/29-photo-my-new-textmate-theme-8...
krispyfi 12y ago
If you program with Japanese comments, I really recommend Ricty. It's a combination of Inconsolata for Latin characters and an IPA font variant called Migu 1M for Japanese characters in the same dimensions. I've never seen it as a binary, so you have to run a script to build it yourself. https://github.com/yascentur/Ricty https://github.com/yascentur/Ricty
rjsw 12y ago
I use Inconsolata in most applications except emacs. I'm using a fairly old version of emacs without Xft2 support so use codec[1] with it. [1] http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/codec.html http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/codec.html

argimenes 12y ago

Cousine is currently my favourite ... quite readable in large and small sizes.

dgellow 12y ago

In Emacs (GUI): Droid Sans Mono https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono In my terminal: Source Code Pro https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+Pro https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+Pro

jacobroufa 12y ago
Have you tried Droid Sans Mono Slashed? I find that the slashed 0 helps readability quite a bit.

mattkrea 12y ago

https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font Meslo. Can't get enough of it.

chippy 12y ago

Monospace 9 (in Geany) Liberation Mono (in Vim / Terminal)

ljoshua 12y ago

Adobe's Source Code Pro is my favorite: http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayFontPackage&code=1960 http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=d...

notduncansmith 12y ago
+1 for Source Code Pro. Looks lovely in my editor and my terminal.

Pephers 12y ago

Menlo Regular in 11 pt. I use it in Sublime Text and also for my Terminal Monokai theme: https://github.com/Pephers/monokai-for-terminal-app https://github.com/Pephers/monokai-for-terminal-app

brainburn 12y ago

Cosmic Sans Neue Mono Note there's an S in Cosmic :) https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

charlesism 12y ago
Thanks, that's one snazzy programming font. I'm definitely giving it a try. Edit: it's nice at small sizes. They should have made a hairline variant though, for larger sizes, as it's pretty bold and the characters aren't as distinct as the could be. Think I'll keep using it for a while longer and see how it goes

emikulic 12y ago

Terminus, Proggy, or Triskweline. I can't stand stroked fonts in a terminal.

GnarfGnarf 12y ago

Courier New (Visual Studio). I keep trying other stuff, but they are a distraction. Courier New does not draw attention to itself, just seems to blend in, and the code communicates directly to you.

teamhappy 12y ago
I'm a huge fan of Adobe's Source Code Pro, but you might wanna take a look at Courier Prime: http://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/ http://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/
- GnarfGnarf 12y ago
  Courier Prime is a very attractive font. Unfortunately the leading (inter-line spacing, pronounced "ledding") is 18% bigger than Courier New. In a full screen of code, I lose 7 lines. That means less visible code, more scrolling up & down. I suppose there are font editors to adjust that. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

johncoltrane 12y ago

I've used Inconsolata exclusively (the original first [1], then the -dz variant [2], then the -g variant [3]) since 2002 or 2003. I've recently switched to Fira Mono [4], designed by the awesome Erik Spiekermann for Mozilla. [1] http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html [2] http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-double-quotes-inconsola/ http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou... [3] http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html [4] https://github.com/mozilla/Fira https://github.com/mozilla/Fira

Prefinem 12y ago

Deja Vu Sans Mono

izietto 12y ago

Ubuntu Mono https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono I like it a lot. Here an example of Sublime Text 3 + Ubuntu Mono 10pt + Blackboard Theme: http://imgur.com/qW8yyi0 http://imgur.com/qW8yyi0

sp332 12y ago
I like Ubuntu Mono, but on some screens (probably depending on antialiasing settings?) it looks too fuzzy and I switch to Inconsolata. It seems one of those two will look good in any setting. Or if I have to deal with no anti-aliasing, Proggy TT is a nice (small, ~9pt) monochrome font.
cranium 12y ago
I use Ubuntu Mono 14pt in iTerm2 and kinda like using a font that big ! http://imgur.com/7Bdtuge http://imgur.com/7Bdtuge
- qzc4 12y ago
  What triangle character are you using there in your prompt? Sorry, but I haven't found a way to make it 'stick' to the background before it using any font (at least at 14pt). Edit: OK, I found the character/theme you are using, but what version of Ubuntu Mono do you have? It won't handle that for me :/ Edit 2: I found a Powerline patched version, but that doesn't seem to work either… Maybe I will just switch back to Consolas
thegeomaster 12y ago
I used Inconsolata, Monaco, Source Code Pro, Consolas, Pragmata Pro, but in the end settled with Ubuntu Mono. I use it in Vim with the great Solarized color scheme, and it's a pleasure to look at.

seanmcdirmid 12y ago

Segoe UI. I will never use a fixed width font again, though I wish I could find something better then Segoe.

Argorak 12y ago

Fira Sans Mono. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os/typeface/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os... (not displayed, but the download includes a Mono variant)

spatz 12y ago
Fira Mono is really beautiful, but the problem I have with it is the vertical spacing. The lines are so far apart, almost nothing fits in the screen.
- Argorak 12y ago
  One's joy, the others pain. I like that ;).

davewiner 12y ago

Geneva. I don't understand why programmers use monospace fonts, other than some kind of tradition.

yangyang 12y ago
Alignment probably more than anything, though obviously the necessity for that depends on the language and style.
- davewiner 12y ago
  Alignment of what?? Not left edges. Even in non-monospace fonts, every blank is the same with, same with every tab.
  - yangyang 12y ago
    Consider aligned colons, something like { a : 10, ab : 40 } If space and "b" are not the same width, that won't look great in a proportional font.
iopq 12y ago
I actually tried a programming font that is not monospace and it's not an issue. Left side is aligned the same anyway and I don't care if lines don't align on the right side.
GnarfGnarf 12y ago
That is an interesting observation. Perhaps it is due to habit. After 45 years of programming (started with punched cards), I am accustomed to fixed-pitch fonts. Proportional fonts for code seem unintelligible to me. It is worth noting that all quality programming publications display code in fixed pitch. Knuth, in his epochal "Art of Computer Programming", uses fixed-pitch serif for source code. Petzold's "Programming Windows" uses fixed-pitch, as does Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language".
- davewiner 12y ago

h1d 12y ago

BPMono

jimlei 12y ago

I think the default fonts work great so I have never changed the font of the editor(s) I use. Am I weird?

sjtrny 12y ago
No, I'm the same way too. I've never even thought about changing the font in IDEs or terminal.

bberrry 12y ago

I am hugely anal about this topic and I've tried all fonts mentioned at the time of this post. In the end, Consolas has racked up the most miles during my coding and Proggy Tiny for the output console (allows you to fit quite a lot). Don't get me started on color theme.

isxek 12y ago
> Proggy Tiny for the input console I would humbly suggest trying either MonteCarlo [1] or its derivative, Tamsyn [2]. Certain characters (like the "@" symbol) look much better in either of these fonts. [1] http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/ http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/ [2] http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/
- swah 12y ago
  Tamsyn doesn't work for me in Sublime Text 3 - do you know why?

gjvc 12y ago

X11 10x20 since 1996

lucianp 12y ago

My favorite is Source Code Pro by Adobe [1]. I use it on Mac OS X and Ubuntu. On Windows I have to use Consolas, because SCP does not render well in gVim for Windows (at least not on my system). Note that Source Code Pro does not have an Italic typeface yet. Italics are commonly used for source code comments and most editors will automatically emulate the shapes, often with poor results. Active development is currently being done in this direction [2]. [1]. http://dwabyick.github.io/Source-Code-Pro http://dwabyick.github.io/Source-Code-Pro [2]. https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/issues/6 https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/issues/6

quantisan 12y ago
[2] was raised in 2012 and still in discussion. I have no idea how fonts are made. Why does it take 2+ years to make a font italic?
- Tomte 12y ago
  Because you need to come up with a design for the cursive variant and then draw all those glyphs. So the time needed is probably shorter than the time spent on the regular variant, but only by a small factor, certainly not orders of magnitude.
  - lucianp 12y ago
    You are right. From reading the comments on the issue [2], this seems to be the reason why it takes so long. Although I have now idea of how fonts are made, I think the work needs to be done for all currently available weights (7 different weights).
  - sp332 12y ago
    The glyphs can look completely different in italic. http://www.fffranziska.com/#sec_italics http://www.fffranziska.com/#sec_italics And after drawing the glyphs, manually checking and adjusting the kerning between every pair of glyphs takes a lot of time too.
- lukeholder 12y ago

grakic 12y ago

PragmataPro

antonios 12y ago
I'll second that. Very nice and well-hinted font, with quite a bit of unicode coverage as well. Definitely worth the money.
neonlex 12y ago
I used this font since more than a year. It's great but a week ago I started using Source Code Pro.

Jgrubb 12y ago

I always try out the others, but I always come back to Monaco.

8ig8 12y ago

Build your own... http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/ http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/

dham 12y ago

Source Code Pro

irickt 12y ago

Luxi mono, because it has the most attractive serifs I've seen.

Semaphor 12y ago

I used to use Anonymous Pro, now I use Consolas.

robinhoodexe 12y ago

Source Code Pro

emilsoman 12y ago

14 pt Menlo Regular. Pic : https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1707078/3491472/9ce4f452-0592-11e4-8be6-ade4e4ba0748.png https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1707078/3491472/9...

wsloth514 12y ago

Hermit 14pt https://pcaro.es/p/hermit/ https://pcaro.es/p/hermit/

sever 12y ago

I'm a font fetishist, so over many years I've tried many fonts. Settled on Maax Mono [1], I find it to be remarkably beautiful. [1] https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/gautier/maax-mono/ https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/gautier/maax-mono/

swah 12y ago
Do you use it outisde retina environments?

p3lim 12y ago

Been using Proggy for a long time, it's a nice, readable monospace font.

teebsd 12y ago

Ubuntu Font http://font.ubuntu.com/ http://font.ubuntu.com/

Tiksi 12y ago

I use tamsyn (http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/) where I can. It's a bitmap font and looks great at small sizes. However since it's a bitmap font there's a few places that it can't be used.

swah 12y ago
Interesting to me how the very clear bitmap fonts are so close to Terminus/linux fonts. Its almost like there is only one way to put the pixels.

swah 12y ago

Nobody mentions if they use Retina when recommending those "newer" fonts. I imagine most fonts that "only look good in 48pt" in my screen can be used for coding in Retina screens (never seen one of those). BUT when using low-dpi monitors, very few get the hinting right, and bitmap (6x13 [1]) is king. [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/fonts/ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/fonts/

Ragu 12y ago

I'm Mainly using google fonts. Its awesome and nice.Professional fonts are available at google fonts. Try it here https://www.google.com/fonts https://www.google.com/fonts We also tried font-family: 'Andika', sans-serif; http://courseeplus.com/aboutus/ http://courseeplus.com/aboutus/

tokanizar 12y ago

I just made a switch to Input (http://input.fontbureau.com http://input.fontbureau.com). Before that, I used Source Code Pro.