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It's great that we have so many choices of great programming fonts nowadays. What's everyone's font of choice? I've been using Consolas for the last few years

by jdlyga 11y ago

It's great that we have so many choices of great programming fonts nowadays. What's everyone's font of choice? I've been using Consolas for the last few years.

LukeHoersten 11y ago
I've been using Ubuntu Mono for years and absolutely love it. Consolas and Roboto look nice as well though.
savanaly 11y ago
Inconsolata all the way.
k2enemy 11y ago
I've been using Input Mono for a few years now. I think this is the longest I've stuck with a particular monospace font. http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=14&language=python&theme=solarized-dark&family=InputSans&width=300&weight=300&line-height=1.2&a=0&g=0&i=0&l=0&zero=0&asterisk=0&braces=0&preset=default&customize=please http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=14&language=python...
deepanchor 11y ago
I'm a huge fan of Liberation Mono. I've been using it for years -whenever I try to change up my terminal a bit by playing around with other fonts, I always end up back where I started.
noir_lord 11y ago
Roboto Mono - I live in jetbrains product (intellij, pycharm, phpstorm) and the font rendering on Linux is pretty bad yet Roboto Mono actually manages to look good, I'd post a screenshot but I'm away from my machine at the moment.
aidenn0 11y ago
I've been using Bitstream/DejaVu Sans Mono for years as I really like their choice for 1Il| but this page made it easy for me to find some alternatives to try. Ubuntu mono and Monoid both stand out as looking good to me (M+ is a close third, but has larger line spacing than I'm used to).
- aidenn0 11y ago
  I don't know if you're still looking here, but after trying out the alternatives, they all had things I didn't like. Source Code Pro was nearly perfect for me, if the latin characters were only as tall as the non-latin characters; the designer seems to like generous space between lines to the point of even skimping on accent length for upper-case characters. The good news is that it makes the Han characters much more legible, as they are larger than the latin ones, but I never use those in my programming. Looking at alternative fonts, I noticed that the designer of the Meslo font considers Menlo (so also Bitstream/DejaVu) to be "too cramped," so my personal preference must be fore closer-together lines than average. Here's some samples from a directory listing: https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/dejavu-sans-mono-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/dejavu-sans-mono-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/dejavu-sans-mono-non-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/dejavu-sans-mono-non-latin.pn... https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/source-code-pro-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/source-code-pro-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/source-code-pro-non-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/source-code-pro-non-latin.png
man5quid 11y ago
I tried using Inconsolata but recently switched to Anonymice pro.

by jdlyga 11y ago

It's great that we have so many choices of great programming fonts nowadays. What's everyone's font of choice? I've been using Consolas for the last few years.

LukeHoersten 11y ago

I've been using Ubuntu Mono for years and absolutely love it. Consolas and Roboto look nice as well though.

savanaly 11y ago

Inconsolata all the way.

k2enemy 11y ago

I've been using Input Mono for a few years now. I think this is the longest I've stuck with a particular monospace font. http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=14&language=python&theme=solarized-dark&family=InputSans&width=300&weight=300&line-height=1.2&a=0&g=0&i=0&l=0&zero=0&asterisk=0&braces=0&preset=default&customize=please http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=14&language=python...

deepanchor 11y ago

I'm a huge fan of Liberation Mono. I've been using it for years -whenever I try to change up my terminal a bit by playing around with other fonts, I always end up back where I started.

noir_lord 11y ago

Roboto Mono - I live in jetbrains product (intellij, pycharm, phpstorm) and the font rendering on Linux is pretty bad yet Roboto Mono actually manages to look good, I'd post a screenshot but I'm away from my machine at the moment.

aidenn0 11y ago

I've been using Bitstream/DejaVu Sans Mono for years as I really like their choice for 1Il| but this page made it easy for me to find some alternatives to try. Ubuntu mono and Monoid both stand out as looking good to me (M+ is a close third, but has larger line spacing than I'm used to).

aidenn0 11y ago
I don't know if you're still looking here, but after trying out the alternatives, they all had things I didn't like. Source Code Pro was nearly perfect for me, if the latin characters were only as tall as the non-latin characters; the designer seems to like generous space between lines to the point of even skimping on accent length for upper-case characters. The good news is that it makes the Han characters much more legible, as they are larger than the latin ones, but I never use those in my programming. Looking at alternative fonts, I noticed that the designer of the Meslo font considers Menlo (so also Bitstream/DejaVu) to be "too cramped," so my personal preference must be fore closer-together lines than average. Here's some samples from a directory listing: https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/dejavu-sans-mono-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/dejavu-sans-mono-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/dejavu-sans-mono-non-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/dejavu-sans-mono-non-latin.pn... https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/source-code-pro-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/source-code-pro-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/source-code-pro-non-latin.png https://phab.jasom.org/orfiles/source-code-pro-non-latin.png

man5quid 11y ago

I tried using Inconsolata but recently switched to Anonymice pro.