When comparing Pragmata Pro vs Roboto Mono, the Slant community recommends Pragmata Pro for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Pragmata Pro is ranked 20th while Roboto Mono is ranked 22nd. The most important reason people chose Pragmata Pro is:
The font has been hand-hinted with legibility in mind.
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Very clear and legible
The font has been hand-hinted with legibility in mind.
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 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).
Pro Looks really beautiful
Roboto Mono has a very clean and beautiful design.
Pro Clean and legible
Roboto Mono is crystal clear which makes it a good choice for reading code without your eyes getting tired.
Pro All variants available
Both bold and italics look great in Roboto Mono.
Pro The right thickness
It's neither too thin, too fat, nor too condensed. Roboto Mono is just right.
Pro Makes for an excellent font for terminal
Roboto Mono looks particularly well on iterm2.
Pro Distinctive uppercase vs lowercase characters
The median line is placed relatively low. This makes reading mix-cased words (eg. hashes) easier.
Pro Released under the lenient Apache License
Pro Powerline Patched version works well
This is the only font that works well and looks good with agnoster theme and powerline for bash/zsh.
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 Not recognized as monospace font.
Windows does not recognize the font as monospaced. Cannot be used as terminal font.
Con Sublime Text doesn't show italic version :(
font face "Roboto Mono" has different widths for italic characters, disabling to prevent text reflow