When comparing ProFont vs Google Noto, the Slant community recommends ProFont for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” ProFont is ranked 40th while Google Noto is ranked 92nd. The most important reason people chose ProFont is:
Anti-aliasing is useful for making it easier to understand, analyze and optimize programs in computing.
Specs
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pros
Pro Looks good and offers anti-aliasing
Anti-aliasing is useful for making it easier to understand, analyze and optimize programs in computing.
Pro Great legibility
ProFont is very legible at both low and high resolution displays.
Pro Optimized for a large variety of displays
Glyph design on Noto Sans is well designed and accounts for HiDPI and standard displays.
Pro Open-source
Licensed and distributed under the SIL Open Font License.
Pro Retina-ready
Looks very clean and crisp on retina displays.
Pro Simple and yet beautiful
Simple and beautiful - much like the Windows counterparts such as Calibri and Arial but it's native for Linux and for this reason it looks better than these two with anti-aliasing.
Pro Expansive character set
Noto Sans is one of the most comprehensive fonts in the market, covering an estimated 30+ languages backed by Google.
Cons
Con Font pack might be too large
Because it is so comprehensive, the TTF/OTF packages in ZIP is really large.