Mine is
https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/
It is a very minimal clean looking monospace font with support for ligatures. What is yours ?
I use Iosevka Nerd Font. It looks nice and has various extra glyphs and ligature support.
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I use SauceCode Pro (variant of SourceCode Pro with nerdfonts stuff). I've given up on changing it because everytime I do I find stuff that's "non-standard" in the fonts I test and it bugs the hell out of me. @ signs are the absolute worst offenders, which is weird because they have a very uniform look everywhere that's not a specialized "programming" monospace font.
The standard @ symbol has four horizontal lines and worse the right side of the "a" is a vertical line contained inside a circle without touching it.
In a variable width font it's often fully twice as wide as a regular "a" character. The variable width font lemmy uses for example, at least as rendered by my computer has six pixels for a lowercase "a" and also six pixels for the small one contained inside the "@" symbol, then another six pixels of width for the circle around it.
That's an impossible task in a fixed width code font where users typically choose a size so small that the regular "a" can't be reduced any further while still being readable.
Which is why basically all code fonts (including Source Code Pro) cheat and modify the symbol so the inner circle overlaps the outer one on the right edge. Some of them do that better than others at inventing their own variant of @.
Yeah I guess you're right. Probably just seen the Source Code Pro one so many times that I stopped being annoyed with it.
Should try exposing myself to the Jetbrains Mono font until I get used to that instead, then I won't have to fiddle with that part of the IDE settings.
I’ve used IBM Plex Mono for a long time. Currently giving github’s new Monaspace a try.
IBM Plex Mono is such a fancy, refined font. The line spacing is a bit too high for my liking though 😞
I discovered comic mono a couple months ago and I've never looked back. It's the perfect font
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.
Times New Roman
Maybe a little Fixed Width Comic Sans?
Variable width if you're really hardcore
Cascadia Code is what I'm using
Iosevka SS14
I use comic mono for the meme, but i also like courier and old school terminal looking fonts
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.
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.
Cartograph looks good. Ubuntu mono is also a great font but I guess it doesn't support ligatures.
re: mononoki - what's the license, I don't see it in the github.
Cascadia Code is my go to
Liberation Mono. It's probably not the best out there, but I like it well enough.
comic sans
I started using comic sans mono ironically, but have come to realize that it legit is easy to read.
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.
Hey I use the same font! Didn't know it supported ligatures, is this feature new? I use the nerd font version so I might have to update.
I think it had support for a while. I guess it needs to be enabled on the editor.
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