When comparing GNU Unifont vs Monoid, the Slant community recommends Monoid for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Monoid is ranked 19th while GNU Unifont is ranked 66th. The most important reason people chose Monoid is:
The user can adjust letter-spacing, line-height, and choose alternate characters prior to downloading.
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 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 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 Very narrow
Con No bold-italic style
Monoid doesn't offer a style that is both bold and italic.