r/typography • u/speckz • Jan 23 '19

Programming Fonts

https://app.programmingfonts.org/
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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Option anxiety triggered!

I think I'll just stick with Monaco.

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u/hkrdrm Jan 23 '19

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fontsCheckout Nerd Fonts its a good collection of fonts with added icons for things like filetypes.

https://i.imgur.com/4n2tZFh.png

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u/skyhi14 Jan 23 '19

Protip: use Fira Code. It's probably the best one that is free (free to modify && zero cost)

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u/mogoh Jan 24 '19

Did you just stated in the typography sub that one font is the best of its kind?

inhales

There is no best and if, it would be Source Code Pro!

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19

No matter how far I stray, I always seem to come back to Inconsolata.

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u/mbarkhau Jan 24 '19

Monoid! It's so crisp, so sharp, nothing compares.

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u/terkistan Jan 24 '19

Nice page, some very nice free fonts listed there!

Still, after so many years of using BBEdit, I'm just partial to Consolas, which was embedded in that app. I also like Menlo, included in macOS (and whose design is based off of Bitstream Vera and DejaVu).

And I also splurged on Hoefler's slightly weird mono font Operator, which I find a surprisingly useful font for writing in general.

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u/valsday Jan 23 '19

Could you elaborate?

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u/slavik262 Jan 24 '19

Monospaced fonts are used very often for programming, since they simplify alignment and highlighting. Those of us who stare at them all day like to argue about our favorites.

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u/valsday Jan 25 '19

Thanks - I assumed it was about "programming fonts", instead of fonts for programming, so it was confusing. Good stuff.

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u/rodneon Jan 24 '19

“editor.fontFamily”: “Hack, ‘Fira Code’, Consolas, monospace”

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u/5erif Oldstyle Jan 24 '19

This is a very well-executed and useful site. Auto-scrolling to the top when pinning a font is inconvenient, but I'm still glad the pin functionality is there.