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Add to SafariWhen comparing PragmataPro vs Apple San Francisco Mono, the Slant community recommends PragmataPro for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” PragmataPro is ranked 21st while Apple San Francisco Mono is ranked 38th. The most important reason people chose PragmataPro is:
The compact design of the fonts allows for effective editing in 2-3 windows side-by-side, even on a laptop screen.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
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 Comprehensive Unicode character support
PragmataPro, more so than most fonts (even non-monospace, professional fonts etc.), supports over 10,000 glyphs 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 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 Most complete
The font has the most glyphs of any programming fonts (more than 7.000).
Pro Clear and dis·tin·guish·a·ble
Code is very readable at both big and small sizes.
Pro Beautiful with high pixel density
Pro Best legible font
This font is legible in every condition.
Pro Visible punctuation
Punctuation is prominent and easily visible.
Pro Looks good on low and high PPI displays
SF Mono looks good on external monitors and Retina Displays. Large and small font sizes.
Cons
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.
Con 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?
Con No Ligature support
Does not support Ligatures so it doesn't play well with some terminal themes.
Con Lowercase l (ell) is similar to 1 (one)
Con 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.
