[closed] [help] what font do you use in your code editor/IDE?

Drew Belloc@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev – 74 points –

I'm looking for a good on the eyes font that suport a feel special characters like ç, ã and í. It also need to have a easy difference between 0/O and I/l. Sorry if this is not the best place to ask this.

Edit: thank you everyone for the answers, i will use fira code on my terminal and intel one mono on my text editor.

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Fira Code

Thanks, it not just looks like what i wanted but it has a bunch of cool things that will look great not just on my text editor but on my terminal too, i will install it once i get home

Here is a nice tool that shows 2 mono fonts and you pick the one you like best. Until you end up with a winner: https://www.codingfont.com/

(I use Brutalist Mono myself)

This is a great tool. I landed on Jetbrains mono with Ubuntu mono in second place. I've been using the latter for many years so it's interesting to find something I like better.

nice tool

I ran through it a few times and ended up selecting Source Code Pro

JetBrains Mono. And I turn on ligatures. Fight me.

How in the world does ligatures work with monospace

Edit: I see now that it's the symbols and not necessarily the letters you guys are merging.

I use Fira Code. It looks great and I really like the programming ligatures.

I've take a quick look on my phone and it looks great, even if i use something elso on my editor i will use it on my terminal

I use the Iosevka Term Nerd Font in all my stuff

Really liked too, i just don't know where is the perfect place to use it yet, this thread gave too many good font's and i want to have a place for them too

I’m here to throw Inconsolata into the mix, though I use Fira more frequently now from a compatibility perspective.

It looks sick, i already changed the emacs font, but i'm going to use this one on android studio

Comic Sans is the answer.

I like the Hack Font family. Doesn't have any problems with 0/O or I/l and displays äöüß fine for me

I've been looking on the hack family too, i even installed a feel but for some reason it always feels like there's something missing and i don't know why, but thank you for the reply the hack fonts are a solid choice

Ubuntu Mono.

I think it has support for most special characters, but some of the weirder symbols aren't there like a handful of IPA characters or emojis.

But you can always get backup fonts on your system just in case

Ubuntu mono is a decent general porpuse font, but not really what i want to use for coding, but thank you

Intel One Mono. It looks bizarre at first but it grew on me really fast and replaced Jetbrains Mono which I had been using for quite a while.

I really like it too, is bizarre but in a cool way, i'm not going to have it on my terminal, but it looks good on emacs

Dina , it's a bitmap font and there's a TTF version as well.

It's one of those things where I'm just used to it I think. The bitmap is sharp and everything else I've tried feels blurry or heavy.

One that I haven't seen here is Operator Mono. I use it everywhere I need monospaced fonts. It's paid, but since I don't need another font ever, it's worth it.

Comic Code

👈😎👈 a lemming of culture, I see. I too use Comic Code!

Fantastic Sans Mono (they spell fantastic weird and I don't feel like checking it) is a free alternative for folks who want to try the hand written monospaced look without paying.

It's the kind of font that i would use in some games or comics, but i don't really like it for coding

Comic code, I even paid for it. I find in easier to read. Maybe I'm dyslexic but have never been diagnosed or anything

I use it too. I've also been curious if I have dyslexia recently. I took some online quiz meant to be a first step to see if you should ask your doctor but it seemed outdated. It used questions like how many newspapers and magazines do you read.

I've seen a lot of people talking on how easy to read it is, but i don't like much this kind of font for coding

OpenDyslexic. Can read it at any size and quickly.

I love the idea of dyslexic fonts but even than i always feel strange using than, maybe because i'm not dyslexic

You're not taking away from someone by using it. If anything, you're helping to normalize it for those that may need it more. I find it super useful. I discovered it when I saw it as a font on my Kindle. I was like.. is there a mono version?

I believe that i've seen it in a wolfgang channel video, and i hope that fonts like that start to be installed by default for those who need it

Yes, agree. That's why I think everyone should use them more. They're super helpful for all. I can make my font smaller and see just as well. If more people demand something like this then those that need it will have it.

been using proggy for ever. might be time to try something new, lots of goot suggestions in here.

I liked that there is a version with a cut on z and 7, and the original pixelated version would be good in a game

Since nobody has mentioned yet: I use a proportional font (Go Regular) for programming. It's weird at first but it's a pretty interesting exercise. There's an interesting write up about using non-monospaced font on the Input font website.

Not sure I can get behind this one. This is a quote from the write up you linked and while I agree these comments are dumb, a “don’t use this because our font won’t support it or a no it’s the editors that are wrong and should change” approach feel ridiculous.

Sometimes programmers rely on the monospaced grid to create a second column of values or comments on the right side of the page. It’s true, these secondary columns won’t align in a proportionally spaced font. But why are we making these columns in the first place? Even in a monospaced font they can be finnicky and hard to maintain. In virtually every other form of typography, the responsibility of alignment is given to the typesetting application, not the font. If source code editors can highlight syntax, they could also interpret tabs and syntax to create true, adjustable columns of text.

Haha yes agreed! That’s why, for me, it’s an interesting exercise. As someone somewhat into typesetting it forced me to think about type properties that I never really thought about before.

I just don't see how this:

^(https?://)?([\da-z.-]+).([a-z.]{2,6})([/\w .-])/?$

Is easier to read than this:

^(https?:\/\/)?([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.]{2,6})([\/\w \.-]*)*\/?$

It's not about alignment - tabs work in any decent editor. I just think it's easier to read fonts that are a little more spread out especially with operators.

Highly recommend Menlo or Meslo LG S (An enhanced open source version of Menlo).

Outside of the "i" i liked how Meslo LG S looks, i think i've seen it been used in a game, but i can't remember which game was