When comparing Terminus vs Pragmata Pro, the Slant community recommends Pragmata Pro for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Pragmata Pro is ranked 15th while Terminus is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Pragmata Pro is:
The compact design of the fonts allows for effective editing in 2-3 windows side-by-side, even on a laptop screen.
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Pros
Pro Looks great even without anti-aliasing
Many fonts look terrible without anti-aliasing. Not Terminus, it looks clear and crisp.
Pro Beautiful crunch pixels
Pro 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.
Pro Narrow width saves a lot of space
The compact design of the fonts allows for effective editing in 2-3 windows side-by-side, even on a laptop screen.
Pro Very clear and legible
The font has been hand-hinted with legibility in mind.
Pro Has ligatures
This is useful for those using letters that are joined, such as "æ".
Pro Comprehensive Unicode character support
PragmataPro, more so than most fonts (even non-monospace, professional fonts etc.), supports a crazy-wide range of the Unicode standard; many of those symbols, letters, and special characters are quite useful in writing and programming (e.g. PragmataPro + Vim's conceal feature makes writing LaTeX pretty beautiful).
Pro Most complete
The font has the most glyphs of any programming fonts (more than 7.000).
Cons
Con Italics are not very appealing
Italicized Terminus TTF doesn't appear as aesthetically pleasing as it was intended.
Con Can be expensive
The cost for the bold font is $20 and this can get as high as $225 for the full package.
Con "Bold" is more like heavy/black rather than bold
If you use bold to highlight keywords, you may find that bold version of the font is too bold and disrupts the flow of the text. Bold is heavily used by many IDEs, so you may need to adjust code highlighting settings and use other means of highlighting keywords, or maybe choosing a different color for bolded words.
Con Crowded-looking
Pragmata Pro is quite crowded in appearance, making it rather unattractive.