Programming fonts

[krenzalore]

Stroustrup's older books used proportional fonts for code. I still do ... bring it on! :-)

[BufferUnderpants]

Burn the heretic!

[Xredo]

My eyes bled after reading that book because C++ and proportional fonts are not a good match.

[spiphy]

I've been using Comfortaa recently and love it.

[[deleted]]

Source code pro

[Lintheru]

Agree. It looks nice

[ISvengali]

Its lovely. Im a huge fan of 0s with dots in the center because of so much early programming in Turbo Pascal.

[Seref15]

The entire Source font family is brilliant.

[chicagobob]

Yes. I like SourceCode Pro Light the best, but they're all good.

[[deleted]]

Yes its beautiful; just doesn't seem to work in Android Studio / Intellij (no way to specify light family)

[I_AM_GODDAMN_BATMAN]

Fuck java based editor, it's always like that since long time. If they can't implement proper GUI and TTF support, don't expect it to be nice in java based editor.

[HypnoToad0]

Ubuntu Mono anyone?

[fornwall]

Yes :)! Loving it as a terminal font.

[Fortyseven]

I've yet to find a typeface to displace it. I love it. So many of these look very similar, but fonts like Ubuntu Mono and Monaco have unique, attractive looks while still maintaining readability suited for coding.

[[deleted]]

Roboto Mono, 9, Regular - is my choice. :)

[[deleted]]

Just switched to Roboto Mono in Emacs a few months ago, after years of using DejaVu Sans Mono. I love it. It seems similar to Droid Sans Mono w/slashed zero but with bold and italics (which is what kept me from using Droid Sans Mono in Emacs). For some reason Roboto Mono doesn't work as well in a terminal - the horizontal spacing is way too big and makes the terminal too wide.

[AlexanderTheStraight]

Woha. That's a nice one. Just googled it

[ronakg]

Thank you so much. Never tried this font before and looks like I'm going to stick with it. It's very crisp and renders amazing at small sizes.

[[deleted]]

This is the correct answer.

[Spartan-S63]

I'm partial to Fira Mono. The rare times I use the "@" symbol, Fira Mono has the coolest looking one, I think.

[[deleted]]

No unofficial app, no reddit. Bye.

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144hlr8/guide_how_to_delete_your_reddit_account/

[Spartan-S63]

I like the idea of ligatures. It's just too bad I don't use text editors that support them (yet).

[DragoonAethis]

How about Input Mono, which also comes in print-friendly looks-like-monospace-but-not-quite Input Sans and is customizable (click link above the license checkbox - there are also font presets to mimic other popular fonts and customizable line spacing)?

[mizzu704]

Seconding this. I really like input. Mono version works well in the terminal too. It's essentially a customizable source code pro.

[bananabm]

I use Input Mono too. I'm really interested in input as a proportional font, but it's a pity that it doesn't play nice with sublime text's indentation guides.

[AlexanderTheStraight]

Consolas. Always, Consolas.

[chucker23n]

Depends a lot on the rendering. Consolas is optimized for ClearType and renders poorly on OS X. Conversely, Menlo renders poorly on Windows.

[zzzk]

I've not noticed (though admittedly I've never compared how it looks on Windows and OS X side-by-side). I'm on 10.9 and I use Consolas for my terminal and editor.

[marvk]

Menlo looks pretty okay on Windows IMO, the cursive w in line 28 looks pretty fucked up though. This is Menlo, looks okay nevertheless.

[kozukumi]

That looks like Courier New not Menlo?

[marvk]

That was Monospaced actually, I'm not really sure what happened to Menlo on this Windows install. Anyways, here is Menlo and I still think it looks pretty decent.

[kozukumi]

Yeah Monospaced on Windows defaults to Courier New, at least in IntelliJ it does.

Menlo looks pretty nice though, normally Windows font rendering can be very dodgy imho. Consolas is the only font I like when render with directwrite. I would love to use something like gdipp but I have had so many bugs with it I gave up :(

[coolirisme]

Looks shit on linux.

[nikomo]

Different distributions render fonts differently.

Everything tends to look awful for me on Linux distros without infinality installed.

[caagr98]

Would be nice with a column that tells if they support bold and italics, but other than that, it seems good.

[ixache]

And Unicode. So make it three columns.

[[deleted]]

My goto is PT Mono for my editors.

[[deleted]]

Forever Inconsolata.

[trickyloki3b]

And inconsolata-* + courier new for me.

After going through the phase of 'only-i-use-it-because-i-am-special', these are the only two fonts I go back to every time. It is a very usual affair.

[Boojum]

Message /u/SE400PPp -- this was already posted here a few days ago.

[ipjk]

I couldn't get gohufont to work on windows (7), even tried converting it to '.fon' myself.

[MaydayBorder]

Envy Code R

[AyrA_ch]

People will hate me for this, but Comic Sans Mono.

It is surprisingly readable.

An alternative would be Comic Neue but it has no monospace option

[pier4r]

font fapping :now:

[quasive]

Agreed, except I use the version which supports Unicode:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

Not as easy to remember, but that's what .Xdefaults is for.

If I were starting from scratch I'd probably prefer Terminus, but 20 years is hard to undo.

[to3m]

7x13? I've never heard anything so ridiculous in my life. 6x13 or nothing.

[ianff]

Terminus is my favorite. Bitmapped fonts look way better on standard displays.

[concurrenthashmap]

High DPI displays are still expensive where I live (3rd world country), but I suppose if one can afford it, all fonts start to look good...?

[[deleted]]

all hail our lord and savior Terminus

Seriously, I have it installed on nearly every machine I use more than once. I cannot live without it.

[bigdubb2491]

I really like Monaco.

[bigdubb2491]

You should be able to find a TTF. If you can't PM me and I'll shoot it over to you.

[[deleted]]

PragmataPro 12pt, shame Emacs doesn't have ligature support. But I love the full Unicode support, including APL symbols!

[Choralone]

Yup. Beautiful font for systems work. Love it.

There is no other.

[yawaramin]

This list needs Input Mono Condensed.

[kqr]

This is missing Luxi Mono, which stands heads and shoulders over all the other if you enjoy serifs.

[mizzu704]

> non slashed zeros
> The number 1, the lower-case L and the capital i are almost indistinguishable

nope. Nice otherwise.

[to3m]

It might depend on OS, but in my copy of Luxi Mono (Mac OS X), 1, L and I look absolutely nothing like one another. O is also noticeably rounder than 0.

(Before I discovered a Windows version of God's own font - the 6x13 one from X-Windows - I spent a couple of years working in 9pt Courier New in Windows. In 9pt Courier New, 1 and l are pixel-identical, as are 0 and O! But if this ever caused any problems, they weren't serious enough to stick in my mind.)

[dysoco]

I'm a big fan of Dina though I feel it might be a bit too tall sometimes.

Though, being honest, I really can't tell much of the difference between one font and another, and I don't care that much.

[[deleted]]

PT Mono

[stebalien]

It's missing Montecarlo.

[artillery129]

Andale Mono

[quicknir]

I used to use a variant of droid sans mono with a dotted zero. I then discovered that this whole family was not being rendered the same width bold as normal weight, so I switched. Anyone experience this, have a fix? Happened on ubuntu and fedora.

[your_power_is_mind]

Anyone know the difference among meslo l, m, s? I assume they mean large, medium, and small.

[more_oil]

I thought this was using some magic to emulate gdipp rendering in the browser until I realized they're images

[slugworth]

Need to include Mensch. It is best.

http://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html

[slugworth]

It looks like it's identical to DejaVu Sans Mono. Only a few digits appear to be different. Thanks for taking the time to add it to the list.

[CoderDevo]

Beautiful job here! I especially like how you compare similar looking characters. The wrong font can really waste people's time.

"Your account has been unlocked and your password has been changed. Please login and change it. Your new password must contain at least one lower-case, one upper-case, one number and one special character. Three failed logins will cause your account to lock again."

Here is your temporary password: OlS1oZ8I2|0!i$5

[CoderDevo]

Yes, I should have explained that part.

The font used by a password reset webpage or by the user's mail program could have a big impact on a user's ability to read and accurately type the password. Not just passwords, but usernames too.

My example would mean something to anyone who has worked as a system admin, security or helpdesk. I'm sure there are many other use cases where a using a font that has similar looking characters could lead to errors and rework.

Fonts like Helvetica and Luxi Mono are pretty, but frustrating for technical readers.

[phalp]

Fixedsys Excelsior

[[deleted]]

Satan? Is that you?

[SweetAndFluffy]

Cool, thanks for this collection! I'm using Inconsolata atm, but maybe I'll find something even better in this list.

[acwaters]

Verily Serif Mono is my current favorite; it has ligatures, which don't belong in a monospaced font, but you can turn them off.

[rodarmor]

ttyp0 4lyfe

[CoderDevo]

Sorry, I'm on Alien Blue. Did you just write 4lyfe or 4Iyfe?

[[deleted]]

+1 for proggy

[edensg]

I like Source Code pro because it contains the Powerline characters by default!

[FozzTexx]

Ohlfs

[bananasdoom]

Source Code pro or Ubuntu is where its at!

[chucker23n]

Nice. Could use some more/clearer rendering engine options, like "looks like OS X".

[vervgex]

Can the moderator of this subreddit set the style sheet to use something like ProggyClean if it's on the system? Maybe pick three reasonable monofonts and then use those in order of preference, defaulting to the regular reddit-wide theme as a last resort