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M+ 1m vs Hermit

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When comparing M+ 1m vs Hermit, the Slant community recommends M+ 1m for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” M+ 1m is ranked 13th while Hermit is ranked 59th. The most important reason people chose M+ 1m is:

M+ M Type-1 (1M) was created to emphasize the balance of natural letterform and high legibility.

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Common Questions
#13
What are the best programming fonts?
#59
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#4
What are the best monospaced unicode fonts?
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M+ 1m
Hermit

Pros

mccauls7
QuietParticle
Moses Holmström

Pro
High legibility

M+ M Type-1 (1M) was created to emphasize the balance of natural letterform and high legibility.

mccauls7
Laura Kyle
QuietParticle

Pro
Permissive free software licence

This is a non-copyleft license that has minimal requirements regarding redistribution of the software.

mccauls7
Laura Kyle
QuietParticle

Pro
Five weights from Thin to Bold

The five font weights available are thin, light, regular, medium, and bold.

QuietParticle

Pro
17 different character-encodings available

  • ISO-8859-1, Latin-1 Western European
  • ISO-8859-2, Latin-2 Central European
  • ISO-8859-3, Latin-3 South European
  • ISO-8859-4, Latin-4 North European
  • ISO-8859-5, Latin/Cyrillic
  • ISO-8859-7, Latin/Greek
  • ISO-8859-8, Latin/Hebrew
  • ISO-8859-9, Latin-5 Turkish
  • ISO-8859-10, Latin-6 Nordic
  • ISO-8859-13, Latin-7 Baltic Rim
  • ISO-8859-14, Latin-8 Celtic
  • ISO-8859-15, Latin-9 A revision of 8859-1
  • ISO-8859-16, Latin-10 South-Eastern European
  • T1 Encoding, Default 8-bit encoding in many TeX installations
  • Windows-1252, Used by default in the legacy components of MS Windows
  • WGL4, Pan-European character set defined by Microsoft
  • VISCII, Vietnamese standard character set
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Jeremy Gibson Bond

Pro
Narrow font is great for teaching

M+ 1m allows you to fit much more code on slides yet still have them be highly legible, making it a great choice for teaching.

ReverentDanand

Pro
Works well with Japanese

The widths are half that of the Japanese characters in the font.

mccauls7
Laura Kyle
Pratyush Chandra M

Pro
Good design

The design of Hermit is clear and legible.

mccauls7
Marcel Kapfer (mmk2410)

Pro
OFL licensed

This means that the font is free and open source.

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Cons

mccauls7
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Con
Certain pseudo-graphic characters take two spaces

In this font, some pseudo-graphic characters can take up two spaces instead of one.

ideasman42

Con
Bold weight has larger width & height

Makes mixing bold/regular weight cause un-even spacing
https://github.com/pcaro90/hermit/issues/5

 

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