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What is your favorite programming font?

There are tons of options! I used Source Code Pro for a long time, but some time ago I decided to try Iosevka, what font are you using right now for programming?

Iosevka Font

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Jenuel Oras Ganawed

Im using Fira Code in my VS Code,, its really awesome.
check their work here: github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

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Arun Kumar

wow I'm switching right now... i was using cascadia code

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Jenuel Oras Ganawed

yeah try it, its really awesome.. :)

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Christian Engel

Just some monospace font, I don't really care about the tiny details.

The only thing I really cant stand at all are fancy fonts which introduce ligatures for code artifacts. So things like === or => get replaced with ONE character. This defeats the purpose of monospace imho because now you have to use extra brain power when reading your code. You always need to remember that these special characters are in fact two or three characters - it makes reading the code harder.

Well, at least for me.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

Agree, I don't like those ligatures, it's like mental overload when I expect two/three symbols and find one weird one instead that isn't even in my keyboard 😂😂

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Felix Macaspac

MonoLisa ftw!

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Calvin Jackson

Jetbrains Mono for Jetbrains products and Fira Code for vscode and the terminal.

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Patrick Wendo

Fira Code. Most cause it converts stuff like -> to an actual arrow symbol. It's also monospacex and easy on the eyes.

Fira Code is a free monospaced font containing ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster. For some frequent sequences like .. or //, ligatures allow us to correct spacing.

github.com/tonsky/FiraCode you can find more about it here.

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Ivan Jeremic

Nothing better for eyes than Fira Code

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Marcelo Haruo Kochiyama

Mine is being Microsoft's Cascadia Code, mannually patched with Nerd Fonts. Looks incredible on terminal and is very readable and beautiful on vscode.

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daviti • Edited

hmm, nobodys brave enought to use comic code?

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alesbe

I actually tried Comic Mono, and it's not that bad haha, kinda funny to use:
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miniscruff

Hey, another comic code user :D

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Ankush Thakur

Fira Code. Looks really nice on MacOS!

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Djilou • Edited

Always been Jetbrains mono nerd font for me