When comparing GNU Unifont vs Google Noto Sans Mono, the Slant community recommends GNU Unifont for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” GNU Unifont is ranked 66th while Google Noto Sans Mono is ranked 102nd. The most important reason people chose GNU Unifont is:
This font covers the entire BMP and work is still being done to expand it even further.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Unicode support
This font covers the entire BMP and work is still being done to expand it even further.
Pro Excellent support for Unicode characters
Unicode uses 16 bits per character, meaning that it can represent more than 65,000 unique characters.
Cons
Con The zero character is not sufficiently distinguished from the capital "O" character
Especially for programming, zero characters should have slashes to make them distinct from other circular or oval characters.
Con Zero is difficult to identify
As it's not dotted or slashed, "0" is more difficult to distinguish.
Con Non-monospace ligature replacements for 'fl', 'fi', 'ffl', 'ffi'
By default, the substrings 'fl', 'fi', 'ffl', and 'ffi' are each crammed into one character width, making it not a truly monospace font. For example, the word 'flag' is rendered as three characters wide.
Con Letters capital 'i' and lowercase 'L' are too similar
The only difference is almost unnoticable.
Con Difficult to distinguish between a period and acomma as well as a colon and a semi-colon
Comma has very small tail, making it difficult to distinguish from a period (full stop). Same applies to colon and semi-colon.