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Operator Mono
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Has a script version
Operator can be used to mix the same font for syntax formatting.
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Relatively expensive
At $179, this font is on the more expensive side.
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Super readable
Long strings can be read in Operator exceedingly easily. The font just flows nicely, with all the benefits of clarity that provides.
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Roman style isn’t very appealing
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Horizontal width not as wide as other fixed width fonts
You can legibly read everything and get more characters per line.
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Adorable italics
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M+ 1 Code
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Permissive free software licence
This is a non-copyleft license that has minimal requirements regarding redistribution of the software.
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Top narrow
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Narrow font is great for teaching
M+ 1m allows you to fit much more code on slides yet still have them be highly legible, making it a great choice for teaching.
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Certain pseudo-graphic characters take two spaces
In this font, some pseudo-graphic characters can take up two spaces instead of one.
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17 different character-encodings available
ISO-8859-1, Latin-1 Western European ISO-8859-2, Latin-2 Central European ISO-8859-3, Latin-3 South European ISO-8859-4, Latin-4 North European ISO-8859-5, Latin/Cyrillic ISO-8859-7, Latin/Greek ISO-8859-8, Latin/Hebrew ISO-8859-9, Latin-5 Turkish ISO-8859-10, Latin-6 Nordic ISO-8859-13, Latin-7 Baltic Rim ISO-8859-14, Latin-8 Celtic ISO-8859-15, Latin-9 A revision of 8859-1 ISO-8859-16, Latin-10 South-Eastern European T1 Encoding, Default 8-bit encoding in many TeX installations Windows-1252, Used by default in the legacy components of MS Windows WGL4, Pan-European character set defined by Microsoft VISCII, Vietnamese standard character set
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Five weights from Thin to Bold
The five font weights available are thin, light, regular, medium, and bold.
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Works well with Japanese
The widths are half that of the Japanese characters in the font.
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High legibility
M+ M Type-1 (1M) was created to emphasize the balance of natural letterform and high legibility.
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License:
OFL-1.1
Italics:
No
Weights:
7 (Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold)
Zero Style:
Dot
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Google Noto Sans Mono
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1
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Zero is difficult to identify
As it's not dotted or slashed, "0" is more difficult to distinguish.
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Excellent support for Unicode characters
Unicode uses 16 bits per character, meaning that it can represent more than 65,000 unique characters.
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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.
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Letters capital 'i' and lowercase 'L' are too similar
The only difference is almost unnoticable.
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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.
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License:
OFL-1.1
Based On:
Google Droid Sans Mono
Zero Style:
Slash
Ligatures:
No
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Inconsolata
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Characters readable even at small sizes
The characters in Inconsolata have a slightly "wide" appearance that aids in readability, especially at small font sizes.
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Arched braces
Too much arched braces, decreases clarity, touching characters almost.
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Excellent readability
Very clear, distinct characters with decent spacing make Inconsolata very readable.
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Efficient scalability
Inconsolata scales well without loss of readability.
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Slashed zero characters are distinguishable from capital "O" and "Q" characters
Inconsolata-g screws this up by replacing the slashed zero with a dotted zero. A dotted zero is better than a zero with nothing in it, but worse than a slashed zero.
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Open source
It's an open source font, meaning it's freely available.
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No visible character breaks
Inconsolata renders lines in TUIs without visible character breaks; apparently unlike Inconsolata-g.
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Widely available
Inconsolata is available in the package managers of almost every open source OS.
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License:
OFL-1.1
Italics:
No
Zero Style:
Slash
Ligatures:
Yes, but disabled by default
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Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
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5
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2
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Line doesn't cover text right
When using Neomutt or htop, the line drawn over is too low - the top of the characters cut into the top of the line.
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Compact
You can fit a lot of text on the screen.
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"mp" clump together with smaller sizes
E.g. in "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
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Font proportion is perfect
Width is just right (not too narrow, not too wide). Many other fonts lack this.
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Smooth with antialiasing
Smooth at small sizes while still clear.
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Readable at small sizes
All characters are easy to recognize at small sizes (comma, period, etc).
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Easy to read
This is subjective but this font is very easy to read. The letters are all spaced and sized properly.
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License:
Bitstream-Vera
Italics:
Yes
Weights:
2 (Regular, Bold)
Zero Style:
Dot
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Hack
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Very readable
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No ligatures in the default font
Although patched versions with ligatures do exist - see here.
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Libre webfonts are available in svg, eot, ttf, woff, and woff2 formats
Hack is free for unlimited commercial and non-commercial use. The webfonts are hinted (TrueType instruction set) to optimize display on the screen and are built into all commonly used web font formats with each new release. They include the complete release character set and smaller (filesize) basic Latin subset releases. They are available in the build directory of the repository.
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Sometimes difficult to distinguish lowercase "i" (eye) and lowercase "l" (ell)
When using a higher resolution monitor and a smaller font size, the lowercase "i" (eye) and lowercase "l" (ell) are very difficult to distinguish. The space between the dot and the remainder of the letter seems to somehow disappear, thereby making it look like a solid line, similar to the lowercase "l" (ell).
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Fixes many readability issues in Vera/DejaVu
The tilde symbol ('~'), comma (',') and semicolon (';') glyphs have been modified to be more readable at small sizes and/or on non-HD displays. In addition, the underscore symbol ('_') has been slightly lifted for alignment with surrounding characters.
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Too similar to DejaVu
See this gif comparison between the two fonts.
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Avaliable in many GNU/Linux distro package manager
Including Debian/Ubuntu (fonts-hack), Fedora (font-hack-ttf), OpenSUSE (hack-fonts), Arch (ttf-hack) and probably many more. Much nicer than having to manually install/update
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Free/Open license
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Renders accurately on Windows on all font sizes
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Based on the tried and tested Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
The fonts are in the Vera Sans Mono lineage with a significant expansion of the character set (which includes Cyrillic and modern Greek character sets), new glyph shapes and modifications of the original glyph shapes, as well as improvements in metrics and hinting/TT instructions to make it more legible at small text sizes used for source code. The changelog is available here.
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Powerline glyph patch is included
The regular set is patched with Powerline glyphs by default. There is no need to patch the font to use it in Powerline environments.
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Source code is released in UFO format
UFO source format is widely supported by all modern font editors if you would like to modify the typeface.
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License:
MIT
Based On:
DejaVu Sans Mono
Weights:
2 (Regular, Bold)
Zero Style:
Dot
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Google Roboto Mono
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Looks really beautiful
Roboto Mono has a very clean and beautiful design.
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Curly braces aren't very distinctive
The curly braces are too close to parentheses, which can harm readability for programming.
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Clean and legible
Roboto Mono is crystal clear which makes it a good choice for reading code without your eyes getting tired.
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Not recognized as monospace font
Windows does not recognize the font as monospaced. Cannot be used as terminal font.
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The right thickness
It's neither too thin, too fat, nor too condensed. Roboto Mono is just right.
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Sublime Text doesn't show italic version
font face "Roboto Mono" has different widths for italic characters, disabling to prevent text reflow
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All variants available
Both bold and italics look great in Roboto Mono.
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Distinctive uppercase vs lowercase characters
The median line is placed relatively low. This makes reading mix-cased words (eg. hashes) easier.
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Readable, elegant and cute
It's very readable, elegant and cute. Almost indistinguishable with SF Mono at small point sizes. It looks great even as a display font.
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Makes for an excellent font for terminal
Roboto Mono looks particularly well on iterm2.
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Released under the lenient Apache License
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Powerline Patched version works well
This is the only font that works well and looks good with agnoster theme and powerline for bash/zsh.
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Looks great on HiDPI
Looks good at 14pt and lower, but looks great at 20pt and higher, making it an excellent font for higher resolutions
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License:
Apache-2.0
Zero Style:
Slash
Ligatures:
No
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Dank Mono
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Italic variant with handwriting style
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Too thin
He needs to add variants of thickness and then I think he would have a sellar product. You have to set your font size extremely high on hi-res displays to look the way I think he wishes it to be, but then the font is too large.
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Has ligatures
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Looks a bit inconsistent, especially italics
Lowercase k looks weird.
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Cheaper alternative to Operator Mono
Operator Mono costs about $200. Dank Mono looks similar but costs only £40.
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Zero Style:
Slash
Ligatures:
Yes
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Terminus
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Looks great even without anti-aliasing
Many fonts look terrible without anti-aliasing. Not Terminus, it looks clear and crisp.
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Italics are not very appealing
Italicized Terminus TTF doesn't appear as aesthetically pleasing as it was intended.
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Beautiful crunch pixels
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It doesn't look very nice
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Pixel-perfect rendering
No blurry characters ever. Every pixel on the screen is used to its full capacity.
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Square
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Terminus is not going fat
Many fonts are fatty when they are used relatively large in size but Terminus does not have this issue. And now it works with IDEA.
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Easy to be confused with different brands of the same or similar name
Like Terminus (Russian production company), Terminus (terminal emulator) or Termius (SSH client).
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License:
OFL-1.1
Weights:
Regular, Bold
Zero Style:
Slash
Ligatures:
No
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Hermit
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Bold weight has larger width & height
Makes mixing bold/regular weight cause un-even spacing https://github.com/pcaro90/hermit/issues/5
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Good design
The design of Hermit is clear and legible.
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OFL licensed
This means that the font is free and open source.
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Dalton Maag Ubuntu Mono
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Excellent readability
Line thickness, shape, and spacing help you to recognize characters and words correctly the first time through, without your eyes having to skip back and re-read.
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Lowercase "i" (eye) is tailed, and too similar to lowercase "l" (ell)
Same with Hack and Red Hat Mono.
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Pleasant aesthetics
The font has a rounded, smooth aesthetic that is particularly appealing.
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Many characters seem imbalanced
Some of the characters don't feel like they match well which can be distracting.
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Easily distinguishable characters
There are dotted zeroes in Ubuntu Mono so to distinguish from the letter "O" (Oh), while the lowercase letter "l" (ell) is very different from the number "1" (one).
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The font is too small
Ubuntu's 13pt looks like 10pt of another font.
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Legible even at small sizes
The fonts retain legibility and under subpixel rendering at small sizes.
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Lowercase "m" is weird and stands out
The lowercase "m" in Ubuntu Mono really stands out because of its unusual shape, which disrupts the user's attention when reading.
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Many languages
1,200 glyphs, 200-250 languages (native languages of 3 billion people).
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Dotted zero characters less distinguishable
Dotted zero characters are much less distinguishable than those that are slashed.
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Open source font
SIL Open Font License.
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No support for combined unicode characters
For example, x̄ is rendered as x ̄.
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License:
Ubuntu Font 1.0
Weights:
2 (Regular, Bold)
Zero Style:
Dot
Ligatures:
No
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Fira Code
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Has ligatures
This is particularly beneficial for those who wish to use combined letters such as "æ" and other diphthongs. But when it comes to programming, the ability to scan through your code is improved with ligatures for equality, arrow functions, and more.
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The '@' Symbol is asymmetric
It's a style, but it would be nice if it would wrap and not just cover the top.
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Supports retina displays
Fira Coda supports high pixel density retina displays.
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No true italic
Italic is just a slanted original, an Oblique. Looks ugly and is difficult on the eyes.
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Characters look really nice
Some characters that look odd in other monospace fonts look very nice in Fira Code: @, a, 1, lower-case-L, Q, j, *
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Noisy serif-like style harming the text clarity
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Good editor support
A list of supported editors and terminals can be found here.
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Ligatures are nice-looking but harm clarity
Even though the font combines characters into ligatures, you still need to type the normal characters, and the ligatures make that difficult in many cases.
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Has a slashed zero
New style since February 2018.
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Ligatures like == and === are harder to tell apart than they should be
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Frequent updates
The repository is frequently updated.
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Too wide, too large line height
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Installs easily on Mac
Many ligature fonts on Github aren't "mac ready". This font comes pre-compiled and ready to install on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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Too wide
Much wider than other fonts.
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Ligatures lump some characters together and make them hard to read
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Needs support for ligatures
It can't work in plain terminal, must have built in support for ligatures in editor.
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No Sublime Text support
Not the font's fault but even the latest Sublime Text builds (e.g. 3126) don't support ligatures.
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Ligatures break correlation between symbols on screen and the number of characters
This makes it easier to lose the grasp how long lines actually are.
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Curly braces are not clear enough
Curly braches ("{" and "}") are not clear enough. They are too horizontally narrow, making them look almost like pipes ("|").
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Bad 4 and r characters, dotted 0
WHY is r a serif?
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Cannot enable alternative stylistic styles on Xcode
I've tried enabling some of the alternate stylistic styles using Xcode's Font picker, via the "Typography" screen. None of the stylistic styles I enable get reflected in Xcode's code editor, even if I restart Xcode from scratch. I'm not sure whether this is a limitation of Xcode, or of the font itself.
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License:
OFL-1.1
Based On:
Mozilla Fira Mono
Italics:
Yes
Weights:
6 (Light, Regular, Retina, Medium, Semibold, Bold)
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Hasklig
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Great for Haskell
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Lacks !=
Some coding fonts with ligatures, like Fira Code, turn != into ≠, but Hasklig does not. The reason for this is that Hasklig was designed for Haskell code, and so turns /= into ≠ instead.
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Has a heavier appearance than Fira Code or Monoid
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Some Ligatures like -<< don't look that good.
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Completely free and open source
Freely available via GitHub, therefore can be modified and improved by anyone.
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Has a heavier appearance than Fira Code or Monoid
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Has many variants such as Italic, Bold Italic, Light, Semibold, etc., etc
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No support for many editors, including emacs
Unfortunately, not supporting emacs is the number one reason I don't use this font all the time.
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Very cute but not WYSIWYG
You want to see exactly what you've typed, not have your brain have to do a little dance every time you see one of these artifacts.
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License:
OFL-1.1
Based On:
Adobe Source Code Pro
Italics:
Yes
Weights:
7 (Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Black)
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Code New Roman
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Completely free
Code New Roman is published under SIL Open Font License making it completely free.
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No updates
No updates or original publisher. Mostly edited and uploaded by many designers because of its OFL license.
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Looks clean and beautiful
Code New Roman seems like a mix of Monaco and Consolas, but looks very well on retina monitors.
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Looks bad in Windows
Too much anti-aliased in Windows.
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Comfortable to read
It's comfortable for the user to read Code New Roman for long periods. OpenType features include hanging or lining numerals (slashed, dotted, and normal zeros) as well as alternative shapes for a number of lowercase letters.
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Available for Windows and OS X
You can download and install it on Windows vista or higher (for cleartype technology support) and Mac OSX.
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Different typefaces
Code New Roman offers Regular, Bold , Italic, and Bold-Italic typefaces.
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Looks great on Ubuntu 14.04
Code New Roman has been tested on cheap Dell Inspiron with Ubuntu 14.04 installed and looks great on gtk-based apps such as Sublime Text, Geany, and TextAdept. It's also great on Qt-based apps such as KDevelop and Spyder. For electron/nwjs-based applications, it looks great on Visual Studio Code and Brackets, but has yet been tested on atom. However, it looks horrible on Swing-based apps such as Netbeans or Jetbrains' IDE.
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Multilingual
Code New Roman is available in English.
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Highly anti-aliased
This means that jaggies are reduced, making the line smoother.
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Anonymous Pro
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Readable even at small sizes
Anonymous Pro is easily legible at small sizes as a bitmap font.
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Small 'l' (ell) is too similar to big 'I' (Eye)
You can tell the difference but need to concentrate on the letters. See the word "Illegal" as an example. It would be better if serifs are a little bit wider for the big 'I' (Eye) letter.
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The best rendering character for DIGIT ONE
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Smaller than other monospace fonts
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Clashing characters are clearly distinguishable
Characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code.
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Small punctuation makes readability difficult
In some programs it's hard to see punctuation marks, especially periods and colons.
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Smaller then other monospaced fonts
Size 13 of Source Code Pro is slightly larger then size 14 of Anonymous Pro.
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"0" glitch
The 0 (zero) symbol has a 'dent' on the left.
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Exaggerated italics
The italicized version of the font is too slanted, meaning that italicized comments in code look really unbalanced.
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Hard to distinguish [ and {
Braces [] and {} are very similar.
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License:
OFL-1.1
Italics:
Yes
Weights:
2 (Regular, Bold)
Zero Style:
Slash
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Bitstream DejaVu Sans Mono
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Very clear distinction between similar characters
It's easy to distinguish between characters such as I, 1, l, O, and 0 in DejaVu Sans Mono.
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Crowded bold styles
At size 12, in bold text, some letters bump up against each other too closely, greatly reducing legibility.
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Clean, readable design
Reading the text is pleasant and effortless. Letter forms combine nicely into words.
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Tilde character lacks curvature
The tilde character in this font ('~') does not have enough curvature to be read easily at small sizes. This can be a concern for Unix(-like) shell users and script writers, as the tilde is used relatively often compared to other symbols.
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It's subtle, yet stylish and extremely readable, very easy on eyes and very effective for long development sessions
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The "-" symbol is short
For example, when using the '-' symbol for borders, it's super short in this font.
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Nice uniform spacing
The font is well spaced and doesn't break up words.
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No ligatures
Missing programming ligatures.
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Excellent unicode support
DejaVu Sans Mono has one of the most complete Unicode fonts available. This means you have access to a wide range of special symbols including mathematical symbols like arrows, operators, and special alphabets. This is useful for certain languages that require special characters like Agda. Some languages allow using these characters optionally. There are editor modes that display characters like this without changing the underlying file, much like syntax highlighting. The Emacs modes for OCaml and Haskell are prime examples.
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Dotted zero
Dotted zero is less readable than slashed zero.
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Available with every linux distribution and works fine in vim, emacs and atom
It's also included in modern versions of Windows.
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Not suitable for Vietnamese
This font is really ugly when used with Vietnamese characters.
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Bold font is the same width as the regular weight font
The Sans Mono version is graphically close to Andale Mono (Microsoft core web font), slightly bolder, with the added bonus of the bold font being the same width as the regular one (unlike Andale Mono). It is a nice property with some syntax highlighting text editors.
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Missing some Vietnamese characters
ấ, ề, ự, etc. are missing in DejaVu Sans Mono.
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Closely related to MobaFont
For MobaXterm users, this font closely mirrors the embedded MobaFont so they can use a monospace font across other applications.
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Some characters are similar
Small 'L', capital 'i' and 1 are too similar.
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Too much serif on lowercase L
Lowercase L has a top left serif and a bottom right curved serif, and both are too long; so long that they make lowercase L look like an uppercase i.
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License:
Bitstream-Vera
Based On:
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
Weights:
2 (Regular, Bold)
Zero Style:
Dot
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Apple San Francisco Mono
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Cons
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Apple is locking down this font
It's not open in any sense of the word. It even gives warnings if you try to rip it out of the Terminal.app or Xcode bundles. Obviously, Apple only wants it on their tools. This is such a shame. It should work in other editors, too. It's a beautiful font. Apple open sourced swift, why can't they be open with a monospace font?
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Clear and dis·tin·guish·a·ble
Code is very readable at both big and small sizes.
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No Ligature support
Does not support Ligatures so it doesn't play well with some terminal themes.
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Beautiful with high pixel density
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Lowercase l (ell) is similar to 1 (one)
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Best legible font
This font is legible in every condition.
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Slightly difficult to use outside of Xcode, Terminal, or Console
The typeface isn't available in Font Book, etc. unless the user imports the files embedded in the apps above.
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Visible punctuation
Punctuation is prominent and easily visible.
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Looks good on low and high PPI displays
SF Mono looks good on external monitors and Retina Displays. Large and small font sizes.
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License:
Proprietary
Zero Style:
Slash
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PT Mono
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7
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3
Cons
3
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Clear characters
PT Mono uses slashed zeros and a rounded lowercase "L", while all numbers are easily distinguishable.
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No ligatures
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Crisp on display
No pixelation on high pixel density displays.
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Lower t stem is short, too similar to lower c
Preferentially, lower f, i, r, have feet, however fortunately lower l (ell) is tailed.
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Clearest parentheses/braces/brackets
You will read ({[ something like this with PT Mono smoothly on screen on any size and quality.
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No Greek letters
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License:
OFL-1.1
Weights:
2 (Regular, Bold)
Zero Style:
Slash
Ligatures:
No
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Iosevka
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14
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3
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Readable
Iosevka is very clear and legible on all displays and in all sizes.
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Too narrow
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Narrow
Narrow character width uses horizontal screen space more efficiently.
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Must do a custom build to get all ligatures
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Large number of weights
This font comes in seven different weights, ranging from thin and extra-light to heavy.
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Fewer ligatures than other fonts
Iosevka has a nice ligation set, but it doesn't have as many ligatures as fonts like Hasklig, Monoid, or Pragmata Pro.
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Great customizability
There is full customization of styles and variants in Iosevka.
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Support for Cyrillic and Greek letters
Iosevka is quite flexible in that it supports Cyrillic and Greek letters.
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Free and open source
Iosevka is free and open source.
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Powerline support
Includes characters for supporting Powerline/Airline for terminals and terminal editors.
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Ligature characters look great
Few fonts have a good ligation feature. Ligature characters (such as æ or the German ß) are supported in Iosevka and look just as you'd expect them to.
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IPA Support
IPA is a system containing the sounds of spoken language and includes speech qualities such as intonation.
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Several styles available
Many of the common styles are available, including Sans Serif and Slab Serif with normal, bold, italic, and bold italic styles.
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Easy on user's eyes
Due to it being readable on all types of displays, Iosevka isn't hard on the user's eyes.
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Well-maintained
The developer is active and responds to user questions and issues.
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Good CJK compatibility
Iosevka integrates CJK characters well, those being characters of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and occasionally Vietnamese languages.
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Also variant with tiny serifs available ("Slab")
For better reading longer texts.
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License:
OFL-1.1
Italics:
Yes
Weights:
9 (Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold, Heavy)
Zero Style:
Custom
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Apple Monaco
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8
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5
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2
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Easy on user's eyes
Monaco's rendering is similar to that of Consolas but slightly more playful. Each character seems to be a tiny bit larger when compared to Consolas, yet code takes up the same amount of space.
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Only comes with Mac OS X
While it generally only came with OS X, you can try here for installing on other platforms.
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Good differentiation between clashing characters
The curly braces are easily distinguishable from parentheses, "0" is distinguishable from "O", and "1" is distinguishable from "l", to name but a few.
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Ability to select different anti-aliasing grades was dropped
Before OS X Snow Leopard, it was possible to apply varying degrees of anti-aliasing to the font. At present, the previously "medium" anti-aliasing option is the only choice.
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Beautiful braces, perfect parens
Parentheses are half-circles. Square brackets, half-squares. Curly braces, unmistakable. Geometric, classy, fun, and most importantly clear. Other fonts' bracket delimiters might start to look lifeless and wilted. Especially well-suited to those who color their brackets as the colors show even against light backgrounds.
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Excellent legibility at non-antialiased small sizes
This font shines for legibility at non-antialiased small sizes. It was originally designed as a 9 pt bitmap font. This is excellent for when maximizing on-screen code is a priority.
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Small file size
Even if you are struggling with memory, this font is no concern. Its ttf file is just about 50 kb.
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License:
Proprietary
Zero Style:
Slash
Ligatures:
No
Raster:
Yes
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