7 Oct 2020
I stumbled into
ProgrammingFonts.org via
NerdFonts.com (via
Starship.rs), and being the obsessive nerd I am, I wrote a script to run a tournament to decide between them. I still love Monaco, but it's time for some variety.
Hasklig [pfonts.org] [homepage] is my current coding choice, with the fun
DaddyTimeMono [pfonts.org] [homepage] for the terminal. The latter works best for me at 17 point, which doesn't offer the best in terms of real estate, but my eyes are older these days, so I'm fine with it.
Cartograph [pfonts.org] [homepage] and
Ellograph [pfonts.org] [homepage] are nice, but aren't free, and I don't know if like them that much more.
Sk-Modernist Mono [pfonts.org] [homepage] is also cool, and also requires a license.
Space Mono [pfonts.org] [homepage] is similar to it, and I may give that a spin.
6 Sep 2015
I've been using the
Monaco font that ships with OS X for a few years now I guess (still in RubyMine since joining LivingSocial in 2011). Haven't been paying too close attention. I did start using the
Solarized Dark and Light color schemes for a few years as well - still using Dark with iTerm and Light inside RubyMine.
Tonight I heard about
Hack and decided to swap that in and give it a go.
... and I've switched back to Monaco. Hack was fine, but looked a little ‘stark’ in RubyMine. Monaco renders better. -
18 Sep 2015
2008
Andale Mono was my fav across the board circa 2008. Google's Droid font is similar, but has a couple of problems:
- Capital O doesn't look any different from zero.
- In some IDEs (Eclipse), the anti-aliasing (I presume) is too blurry.
Andale Mono
Looks nice pretty much anywhere.
Droid Sans Mono
From the Google Android project.
Eclipse: Anti-aliasing is not to my liking. More blurry than readable.
jEdit: looks good
VS2005: little anti-aliasing blur effect, but not much.
Envy Code
Envy Code B
Envy Code R v0.7
Eclipse 3.3: looks weird - anti-aliasing or something makes my eyes crazy
jEdit 4.2: 12 pt too small/thin? 14 pt looks good, but a bit too big?
VS2005: 10pt too thin? 12pt too big?
Damien's programming fonts
Proggy fonts
From Keith Devens's page linked above, and his personal recommendation. Lowercase ‘a’ and ‘o’ are clearly different - so it's better in that way than MonteCarlo. Also has .fon and .ttf versions, so I can make jEdit happy (TT only) and any other Windows editors happy, too.
Proggy Clean and Proggy Tiny are nice. Proggy Tiny is too tiny on a large resolution like 1600x1200 for me. The problem with Proggy Clean is that it ain't monospaced. And not just with bold characters, but even the regular hyphen is wider than most characters. (Maybe TT only? Does it have a non-TT?)
MonteCarlo
cons: lowercase ‘a’ looks a lot like lowercase ‘o’ at small point size. (And with a Dvorak layout, ‘a’ and ‘o’ are right next to each other). It's not True Type, though, so it doesn't work with jEdit.
ProFont
non-True Type version had different letter widths for bold characters (or somesuch).
Keith Devens's Programmer Font Page (Thanks to Pavel Trka for the link)
M+ is another one I need to check out.
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