When comparing Proggy Clean vs Mononoki, the Slant community recommends Mononoki for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Mononoki is ranked 29th while Proggy Clean is ranked 42nd. The most important reason people chose Mononoki is:
Characters are well-differentiated and render clearly. Punctuation is large and easy to see. All characters are easily distinguishable from other similar-looking characters.
Specs
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Pros
Pro The easiest to read
All characters are completely readable in the smallest size.
Perfectly usable in terminal and code editors in 12px text size.
Pro Hipster among hipsters
Even hipsters will marvel at this font, praising you as the new hipster lord. It is best at around 19px (tested on Mac). Overall, it has better readability than many default fonts.
Pro Very legible
Characters are well-differentiated and render clearly. Punctuation is large and easy to see. All characters are easily distinguishable from other similar-looking characters.
Pro Very smooth
This font is smooth and beautiful.
Pro Works on cheap displays
Specifically designed to work well on low resolution displays (in addition to high resolution displays).
Pro Nice italic characters
Pro Works at low pixel sizes
9px +!
Cons
Con Pixelated
This is, of course, intentional; but it can be hard to look at compared to other smooth mono-space fonts.
Con Smallest font sizes hard to read
Fonts less than 11pt start to fail readability tests. 9pt specifically has an additional issue where brackets don't align.
Con Not really good in all font-sizes
Completely clean pixels, no anti-aliasing so its best viewed in (n*12) pixel size.
Bold font-weight is not really good because of small padding between them.
Con No ligatures
Con Parenthesis
Asymmetric and too bulbous.