When comparing Victor Mono vs Google Noto Sans Mono, the Slant community recommends Victor Mono for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Victor Mono is ranked 43rd while Google Noto Sans Mono is ranked 102nd.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Has ligatures
Pro Has both an oblique and italic style
Pro Is free
Pro Has a large x-height, making it legible at small sizes
Pro Comes in multiple weights
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 Cursive italics
Italics are connected cursive, which might make them hard to read.
Con Opentail lowercase 'g'
Not a dealbreaker, but some people prefer looptail 'g' fonts.
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.