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Mine is mononoki

https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/

It is a very minimal clean looking monospace font with support for ligatures. What is yours ?

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Been using Input Mono for the past 5 or so years.

[–] dukk@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recursive Mono. It’s freaking cool. I like ligatures so it’s got them, it’s nice on the eyes, and it’s playful without being too playful.

Bonus points if you use Semicasual.

[–] outcide@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

+1 Recursive!

[–] youRFate@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bought Pragmata Pro about 5 years ago and still love it.

https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

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[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] gac11@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe a little Fixed Width Comic Sans?

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[–] aleq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use SauceCode Pro (variant of SourceCode Pro with nerdfonts stuff). I've given up on changing it because everytime I do I find stuff that's "non-standard" in the fonts I test and it bugs the hell out of me. @ signs are the absolute worst offenders, which is weird because they have a very uniform look everywhere that's not a specialized "programming" monospace font.

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The standard @ symbol has four horizontal lines and worse the right side of the "a" is a vertical line contained inside a circle without touching it.

In a variable width font it's often fully twice as wide as a regular "a" character. The variable width font lemmy uses for example, at least as rendered by my computer has six pixels for a lowercase "a" and also six pixels for the small one contained inside the "@" symbol, then another six pixels of width for the circle around it.

That's an impossible task in a fixed width code font where users typically choose a size so small that the regular "a" can't be reduced any further while still being readable.

Which is why basically all code fonts (including Source Code Pro) cheat and modify the symbol so the inner circle overlaps the outer one on the right edge. Some of them do that better than others at inventing their own variant of @.

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[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Terminus.

To be honest, I don't care. If I dislike a default font somewhere, I change it, but there's no a favorite one. The font must be readable, that's all.

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[–] hallettj@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a very nice one! I also enjoy programming ligatures.

I use Cartograph CF. I like to use the handwriting style for built-in keywords. Those are common enough that I identify them by shape. The loopy handwriting helps me to skim over the keywords to focus on the words that are specific to each piece of code.

sample Haskell code with a handwriting font variant for the words "let", "in", and "where"

I wish more monospace fonts would use the "m" style from Ubuntu Mono. The middle leg is shortened which makes the glyph look less crowded.

[–] meter_kilo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Cartograph looks good. Ubuntu mono is also a great font but I guess it doesn't support ligatures.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Iosevka SS14

[–] PHLAK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a big fan of Adobe's Source Code Pro.

[–] Hammerheart@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I use comic mono for the meme, but i also like courier and old school terminal looking fonts

[–] aard@kyu.de 2 points 1 year ago

I have a custom TrueType font embedding the UCS bitmap fonts so I can use it with modern font renderers which dropped support for those old font formats.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Cascadia Code is what I'm using

[–] Aio@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Monospace, openDyslexic, Noto Sans Regular

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

re: mononoki - what's the license, I don't see it in the github.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Unifont: it looks clean and I love the curly braces.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Cascadia Code is my go to

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago
[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I started using comic sans mono ironically, but have come to realize that it legit is easy to read.

[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey I use the same font! Didn't know it supported ligatures, is this feature new? I use the nerd font version so I might have to update.

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[–] rolfwr@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I settled on Go Mono, a few years back after going through a list of commonly recommended code fonts, and picking the one that I liked best. While I usually do not program in Golang, I still find the this font to be well suited for any programming language.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Liberation Mono. It's probably not the best out there, but I like it well enough.

[–] wazzupdog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sony Sketch, I'm mildly dyslexic and it's surprisingly easy for me to read, and looks good too.

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