When comparing Creep vs Google Noto Sans Mono, the Slant community recommends Creep for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Creep is ranked 63rd while Google Noto Sans Mono is ranked 102nd. The most important reason people chose Creep is:
This font is nice and small, making it ideal for small screens.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Compact font
This font is nice and small, making it ideal for small screens.
Pro Specifically designed for programming
Pro Excellent support for Unicode characters
Unicode uses 16 bits per character, meaning that it can represent more than 65,000 unique characters.
Cons
Con Really small
This font is so small that it might cause difficulty to read.
Con Zero is difficult to identify
As it's not dotted or slashed, "0" is more difficult to distinguish.
Con Non-monospace ligature replacements for 'fl', 'fi', 'ffl', 'ffi'
By default, the substrings 'fl', 'fi', 'ffl', and 'ffi' are each crammed into one character width, making it not a truly monospace font. For example, the word 'flag' is rendered as three characters wide.
Con Letters capital 'i' and lowercase 'L' are too similar
The only difference is almost unnoticable.
Con Difficult to distinguish between a period and acomma as well as a colon and a semi-colon
Comma has very small tail, making it difficult to distinguish from a period (full stop). Same applies to colon and semi-colon.