When comparing Cruft vs Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, the Slant community recommends Cruft for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Cruft is ranked 57th while Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is ranked 69th. The most important reason people chose Cruft is:
Clear, well-differentiated characters, elegant and well-defined symbols.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Cruft Pointfree version, also Cruft Untyped
Clear, well-differentiated characters, elegant and well-defined symbols.
Pro Compact
You can fit a lot of text on the screen.
Pro Font proportion is perfect
Width is just right (not too narrow, not too wide). Many other fonts lack this.
Pro Smooth with antialiasing
Smooth at small sizes while still clear.
Pro Readable at small sizes
All characters are easy to recognize at small sizes (comma, period, etc).
Pro Easy to read
This is subjective but this font is very easy to read. The letters are all spaced and sized properly.
Cons
Con No ligatures
Con Line doesn't cover text right
When using Neomutt or htop, the line drawn over is too low - the top of the characters cut into the top of the line.
Con "mp" clump together with smaller sizes
E.g. in "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".