When comparing Microsoft Segoe UI Mono vs Monoid, the Slant community recommends Monoid for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Monoid is ranked 19th while Microsoft Segoe UI Mono is ranked 45th. The most important reason people chose Monoid is:
The user can adjust letter-spacing, line-height, and choose alternate characters prior to downloading.
Specs
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pros
Pro Great readability
Segoe UI Mono is a very readable font.
Pro Customisable
The user can adjust letter-spacing, line-height, and choose alternate characters prior to downloading.
Pro Novel use of ligatures to display ascii character combinations as symbols
The common expression '!=' is displayed as '≠', '>=' as '≥' *, while maintaining the fixed width double-space that these characters would normally take, so as to maintain text alignment.
- Many others are supported too - see site for details.
Pro Open source
Monoid is open source meaning it's freely available to anyone.
Pro Sharpness
Pro Larger and easier to read with thin condensed letters
Pro Fine without retina
Probably the only one that is.
Cons
Con The zero is not slashed
The zero is not slashed, which causes some problems when scanning source code. This is not an issue when the IDE supports coloring (like all major modern IDE's), but still there are instances where this is not the case. A primary example are T4 templates, where Microsoft has not yet provided coloring support.
Con Very narrow
Con No bold-italic style
Monoid doesn't offer a style that is both bold and italic.