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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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6
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Pros
1
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4
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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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Free
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Courier Prime Code
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Pros
2
Cons
2
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Courier Prime Code 0 (zero) is distinct from uppercase O (Oh)
In the other style, Courier Prime, the 0 (zero) is not distinct from uppercase O (Oh).
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Even spacing
Courier Prime Code is a monospace font with adjusted Line Height.
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1 (one) and lower l (ell) are very similar and can be confused
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Support for standard font weights
Courier Prime supports Bold, Italics, Bold Italics, and Regular font weights.
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License:
OFL-1.1
Zero Style:
Dot
Ligatures:
No
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Berkeley Mono
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Pros
2
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1
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Plain enough
The font does not distract you with weird glyphs – but is interesting enough to be loved.
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Missing weights
The regular weight is a little bit light for me, I'm waiting for the medium weight.
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Legible
The font is wide enough to be legible but not too much so you can actually fit some information on your screen.
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License:
Proprietary
Italics:
Yes
Weights:
2 (Regular, Bold)
Zero Style:
Custom
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Inconsolata
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Pros
7
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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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MonoLisa
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8
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2
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Not free
This font requires a purchase in order to be used. The cheapest version ('Basic') is 60 dollars. There is a free trial, though.
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Customizable OpenType features downloads
The website offers customizable downloads for editors that don't support OpenType features natively.
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Wider than usual
As it's wider, this means a short adjustment period may be required. If you have a limited amount of horizontal space, the wider glyphs may be problematic as well.
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Script variant
It comes with script variant for italics.
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Ligatures
The typeface supports over 120 optionally enabled ligatures for common coding tasks.
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Italics
The typeface comes with an italic version.
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Space
Space used by the characters has been carefully balanced to keep them light to read.
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Reading flow
The characters have been designed to flow into each other so that the font feels easy to read.
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Distinction
Specific care has been put to make programming characters such as 1, i, and l or O or 0 easy to tell apart.
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Wider than usual
As it's wider, this means there's more space for designing characters like "m".
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Zero Style:
Dot
Ligatures:
Yes
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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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Office Code Pro
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Modern and highly legible
The customizations were made specifically for text editors and coding environments, but are still very usable in other applications.
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Looks like something designed by Microsoft
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Looks great
Sometimes it even works better than Source Code Pro for reading and writing.
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Does not have cyrillic characters
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Works very well on Intelli J
This is useful for those who prefer using this environment.
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Integrates Powerline glyphs
The author added Powerline glyphs in version 1.002.
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License:
OFL-1.1
Based On:
Adobe Source Code Pro
Zero Style:
Dot, Slash
Ligatures:
No
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Google Noto
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Optimized for a large variety of displays
Glyph design on Noto Sans is well designed and accounts for HiDPI and standard displays.
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Font pack might be too large
Because it is so comprehensive, the TTF/OTF packages in ZIP is really large.
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Open-source
Licensed and distributed under the SIL Open Font License.
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Retina-ready
Looks very clean and crisp on retina displays.
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Simple and yet beautiful
Simple and beautiful - much like the Windows counterparts such as Calibri and Arial but it's native for Linux and for this reason it looks better than these two with anti-aliasing.
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Expansive character set
Noto Sans is one of the most comprehensive fonts in the market, covering an estimated 30+ languages backed by Google.
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License:
OFL-1.1
Based On:
Google Droid Sans
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Microsoft Verdana
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4
Cons
1
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Not monospaced
-if that is an absolute must for you. But don't assume it is until you've tried without...
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Free with Windows
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Compact while light
Packs lots of information into your screen space while remaining clear and never looking crowded.
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Renders perfectly at all sizes
Again, particularly in Windows
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Looks absolutely gorgeous in Windows
Looks good elsewhere as well, but the world-class hinting here really comes out with the windows rasterizer (probably optimized for it).
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Proprietary
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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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Pros
3
Cons
2
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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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Input Mono
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Pros
8
Cons
9
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Highly configurable
Input can be configured online with preview: width, weight, line height, and alternate letterforms.
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Closed source
Although font designers need to make money too, open source model is preferred.
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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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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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Clear distinctions between similar characters
The font is easy to read, has a clear distinction between similar character types, is very customizable with weight and line height. Free for personal/unpublished usage. You can customize the font how you like it on their site before downloading it to use. In some fonts, it's difficult to distinguish between similar characters such as i/L/1, or o/zero, or m/rn. This font does an incredible job at making all of these examples clearly identifiable.
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In VS2017 this font does not work and displayed as "Courier New"
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Clear on low resolution and retina display
The code stays clear on low resolution and retina display with the same font option.
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Hard to distinguish "8" from "B" at low sizes
This often impacts upon designers working with hexadecimal numbers. Many fonts address this by either changing the x-height for numerals, making "8" more of an hourglass shape, or making the "B" cap smaller. At 10 pt, there's less than three pixels of a difference (anti-aliased).
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Large, obvious punctuation
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Gets the job done, but not rounded enough to be pleasant/easy on the eyes
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Light, Extra-Light, Thin weights
The designer advises using a lighter weight for light-on-dark color schemes.
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Bold 5 and 6 are too similar
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Serif font is remarkably readable
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Decimal digits can blend together in Mono variant
A lot of decimal digits have a similar form, 2's can sometimes look like 8's and so forth, which makes long strings of digits hard to read. I find other fonts like Consolas's digits more legible even at smaller sizes. In the proportional variants this is less a problem.
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Condensed and Compressed Thin saves a lot of space
When using the condensed or compressed version with the thin typeface, you gain a lot of screen space and it's still extremely readable for all day coding.
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Easy to confuse lowercase "i" with "1" if you're not used to it
The dot is so close to the body that they fuse, and with the serif on top it looks like the cap of the letter "1". When you put them side by side it's easy to see which one is which, but if you see a code that reads "a+=i" you're going to read that it increments a by 1.
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The tilde is indistinguishable from a dash
Tilde is basically indistinguishable from a dash, unless you blow the size up huge. The curves in the tilde are too shallow.
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License:
Proprietary
Italics:
Yes
Weights:
7 (Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black)
Zero Style:
Custom
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Terminus
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Pros
4
Cons
4
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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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Pros
2
Cons
1
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Con
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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Monofur
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5
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Pros
3
Cons
2
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Pro
It's simple, beautiful, and stylish
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Lacks bold+italic
Monofur has a regular italic and bold typeface, but it lacks bold+italic. Syntax-capable editors can better display code based on function/class/context/markup work when at least 4 families are available to display.
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Great for your eyes
Monofur is very legible. Even after staring at it for hours, your eyes won't get tired.
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Only characters from the Western charset work in many Windows apps
The font includes all characters for all European languages; however, in most programs using Unicode (such as WordPad or MS Word), only languages using Western charset can use this font. These include English, German, French, Spanish, and Norwegian. Trying to use any languages like Czech, Hungarian (Central European), Bulgarian, Russian (Cyrillic), or Greek will make the font switch back to default font like Arial or Calibri, even though Monofur itself includes characters for those languages. Authors didn't bother fixing the non-working Baltic / Central European / Greek / Cyrillic / Turkish character set for those years.
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Letterforms are highly distinct
The font is very legible due to the distinguished characters it contains.
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Native
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Pros
5
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Not FREE
Not free and hard to find.
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Readable
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Consistent character widths between the italics and weights
Within Native's weights and styles, each character occupies 580 points of space. This ensures code does not become misaligned if a developer prefers certain callouts in a different style.
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The regular weight is free for Desktop, Web, and App Licensing
The regular weight can be picked up free of charge on MyFonts or Fort Foundry’s site.
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No alignment issues when switching between styles
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Italics are given a lot of differentiation
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