2y ago

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

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
- Same (Fira Code). And use it for my terminals as well.
  https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
- 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
- Terrific, I’m gonna test it ASAP

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)
- I would try it, if I didn't get a page-sized ad for another app, with no apparent way to make it go away...
  
  Click somewhere outside the ad
- I wish i had found that yesterday, would've saved a lot of time
- 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

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

Try JetBrains Mono too.
- I like it in the overall, but i don't really like the 0 with a dot inside and the "?"

Source Code Pro
- Thank you, but i don't like much how some letters look
  
  Fonts are a very personal choice.

I use the Iosevka Term Nerd Font in all my stuff
- Iosevka Term and Computer Modern For Articles
- 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

Have a look at Intel One Mono. https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono
- It looks cool, specially the numbers. I will try it out later

Fira code or iosevka.
- Thank you, i still need to take a look on iosevka but i really liked fira code

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

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.
- You joke but comic mono is startlingly easy to look at…
  
  @wyrmroot @howarddo meeeh yes it's actually readable
- Why am i still here? Just to suffer
- some people just want to watch ~~the world~~ their eyes burn...
  
  Wingdings?

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

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.
- It looks really nice

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
  
  I’m running it on my terminal as well and very much enjoying it.

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.
- You just gave me the font for the game i am doing, thank you very much

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

Hasklig.
Which is Source Code Pro with ligatures.
https://www.programmingfonts.org/#hasklig
- Not a big fan of source code, but the ligatures are always welcome

DejaVu Sans Mono
- Thank you that's the one that i've been using on my terminal, but i am looking for a substitute

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'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
- 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.

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?

Hack within the terminal and Consolas for all my IDEs

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

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

Input Mono patched for NerdFonts.

PragmataPro with ligatures

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:
  undefined
  
  ^(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.
- +1 for Go and Input fonts. You have the same stack as me.

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