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Add to SafariWhen comparing Monoid vs Courier Prime Code, the Slant community recommends Monoid for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Monoid is ranked 19th while Courier Prime Code is ranked 113rd. The most important reason people chose Monoid is:
The user can adjust letter-spacing, line-height, and choose alternate characters prior to downloading.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
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.
Pro Even spacing
Courier Prime Code is a monospace font with adjusted Line Height.
Pro Support for standard font weights
Courier Prime supports Bold, Italics, Bold Italics, and Regular font weights.
Cons
Con Very narrow
Con No bold-italic style
Monoid doesn't offer a style that is both bold and italic.
Con Courier Prime Code 0 (zero) is distinct from uppercase O (Oh)
In the other style, Courier Prime, the 0 (zero) is not distinct from uppercase O (Oh).
Con 1 (one) and lower l (ell) are very similar and can be confused
