Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code

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The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.

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People actually change fonts in their IDE? I've always used whatever the default is and never even thought about it.

Try Fira Code font

I actually have. I didn't install it in an IDE, though. This font comes with popOS

I always do. I'm a fan of JetBrains Mono.

It is the default font. At least in all the JetBrains IDE

What makes this unique is that they're saying this allows for different fonts in the same piece of code. So you could have comments in one font, your code in another, AI written code in another, etc. Looks like all the fonts are the same size, so everything still aligns nicely.

some people even change default system fonts used in the deskop environment (menu's, filemanager etc) 😎😁

I can't stand Jetbrains default font. The height of the letters is too large

Oh man fonts for coding are such a huge thing. There are people making their own forks of so they have certain glyphs, or a line through the zero (or vice versa) or little changes to other specific chars.