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Mine is
https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/
It is a very minimal clean looking monospace font with support for ligatures. What is yours ?
JetBrains Mono all the way.
There's also a new kid in town - Monaspace, its texture healing feature is pretty interesting. I might give it a try later.
Monaspace AUR-packaged fonts do not registered as monospace font in ArchLinux.
Though Konsole can be configured to use the font, Kitty does not recognize it. Manual install in macOS works for Kitty.
I like Neon and Argon variants of Monaspace.
My favorite was PragmataPro (not free) but it has different glyphs from Nerd Fonts. Similar ones are Iosevka, Victor, Mplus 1 code. Now new favorite is JetbrainsMono NF.
SF code, Fira Code are also in the favorite list.
Lab mono, fragment Mono are nice and planning to try them.
Generally I like condense (but not too condesed) round fonts.
I used Dejavu sans mono (but modded to have a slashed 0. It’s based on Gnome’s Vera font, but at the time it had a very large open type feature set that appealed to me.
https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/
Edit: bumped send before finishing thought…
Fira was my replacement, but I never really could get used to the operators ligatures, so left them disabled. I’m about to switch and try Neon or Argon (though I may end up mixing them a bit if it’s not too much work). Jetbrains has a neat design, but the r and f feel really out of place and I’d have to mod them to not be annoyed all the time.
I always just use my ide default. Never really had an issue to change it in any ide that I've used.
Intellij's is very pleasing to the eye
Webdings.
Webdings.
I was expecting someone to say wingdings when I posted the question, but this is one better 😁
The one that comes with the IDE, because I don’t really care.
That is fine as long as it is one where l1I are easy to distinguish.
I love ligatures and Fira Code (retina) is the best and absolutely comfortable for me.
I love MonaLisa a lot. I’ve been using it for pretty much all monospace throughout my computer. It feels very fine-tuned and well thought out, and it’s very readable too.
Was reading about Monaspace earlier. How would you compare it against something like Fira Code?
Ubuntu Mono since it was in beta and I heard the designer from Dalton Maag — the typeface design studio commissioned to design it — give a talk about how excited he was to be able to create a comprehensive, carefully thought out, and truly free/libre font.
I've never seen another one that I prefer the look of, and now it's imprinted in my brain. People love to crap on Shuttleworth / Canonical / Ubuntu, but there are a lot of great things they've contributed over the years.
Hack, just outright, so clean and clear and easy to read.
And where l is not the same as 1
My own variant of Iosevka
I use Iosevka Nerd Font. It looks nice and has various extra glyphs and ligature support.
Jetbrains Mono with Nerd Fonts
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro
Source code pro for quite some time.
Modern DOS 8x16. I like the nostalgic look and boxiness.
Ubuntu Mono. Though I don't use Ubuntu.
Iosevka SS14
I bought Pragmata Pro about 5 years ago and still love it.
For people like me, who don't feel cashing out money for a font - Iosevka is a pretty decent opensource clone of PragmataPro. But the OG still looks better to me somehow.
I look at it basically all day at work, the 200€ are are down to a very small fraction of a cent / hour of use by now.
I like Hack. I'm not huge on ligatures.
I have a custom TrueType font embedding the UCS bitmap fonts so I can use it with modern font renderers which dropped support for those old font formats.
Recursive Mono. It’s freaking cool. I like ligatures so it’s got them, it’s nice on the eyes, and it’s playful without being too playful.
Bonus points if you use Semicasual.
That's a very nice one! I also enjoy programming ligatures.
I use Cartograph CF. I like to use the handwriting style for built-in keywords. Those are common enough that I identify them by shape. The loopy handwriting helps me to skim over the keywords to focus on the words that are specific to each piece of code.
I wish more monospace fonts would use the "m" style from Ubuntu Mono. The middle leg is shortened which makes the glyph look less crowded.
Times New Roman
I settled on Go Mono, a few years back after going through a list of commonly recommended code fonts, and picking the one that I liked best. While I usually do not program in Golang, I still find the this font to be well suited for any programming language.
re: mononoki - what's the license, I don't see it in the github.
Terminus.
To be honest, I don't care. If I dislike a default font somewhere, I change it, but there's no a favorite one. The font must be readable, that's all.
that's all
Well buddy you are very brave sharing such, almost rude, simplicity in a monospace font circle jerk.
Monospace, openDyslexic, Noto Sans Regular
I've been liking Commit Mono recently. Otherwise, I usually use JetBrains Mono
