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What are the best proportional fonts for programming?
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Best proportional fonts for programming
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Microsoft Verdana
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Highly configurable
Input can be configured online with preview: width, weight, line height, and alternate letterforms.
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No ligatures
This can be a pro or con depending on who you ask, but it would be nice to have the option.
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Proprietary
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7 (Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black)
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Has proportional version
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Closed source
Although font designers need to make money too, open source model is preferred.
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Large, obvious punctuation
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Available in Mono, Sans, and Serif
There are a couple advantages to using a proportionally spaced font in code: comfort of reading, ease of spotting typos, and better differentiation between different kinds of code with font styles. Fontbureau dedicated an entire page to this topic. Unfortunately, a lot of text editors only support monospaced fonts.
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Microsoft Verdana
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Its quotation marks are wrong
Verdana has different shapes for left English quotation marks (“, ‘), contrary to the descriptions by Unicode. It causes that using the symbols in a different way, like in German quotations, looks wrong. Verdana Pro, its remake, has this fixed; it has normal-looking quotation marks.
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It's easy to read
Verdana is designed for good readability on screens, which translates to programming, especially in languages with a lot of words, like Java. Its symbols are distinct but not very significant; that makes it not optimal for languages using symbols a lot, like Haskell.
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