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Add to SafariWhen comparing GohuFont vs Hermit, the Slant community recommends GohuFont for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” GohuFont is ranked 30th while Hermit is ranked 75th. The most important reason people chose GohuFont is:
Always crisp and sharp, highly legible at even 8 pt. Excellent for low to normal dpi screens.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Raster font
Always crisp and sharp, highly legible at even 8 pt. Excellent for low to normal dpi screens.
Pro Unique glyphs
This makes it easy to distinguish characters at small sizes.
Pro It has bold font even for the small 11px size
Pro Very good unicode support
It covers most common unicode characters so it's suitable for everyday terminal applications, not only coding.
Pro Good design
The design of Hermit is clear and legible.
Pro OFL licensed
This means that the font is free and open source.
Cons
Con Bitmap only
Certain Cairo-powered apps fail to render them (e.g. sublime text is only available on a few Linux distros).
Con Ships in only two sizes
It only ships in 11px and 14px formats, which might not feel as comfortable to people used to other font sizes.
Con Bold weight has larger width & height
Makes mixing bold/regular weight cause un-even spacing
https://github.com/pcaro90/hermit/issues/5
