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6 BEST Fonts for Programming in 2021

Braydon Coyer on February 18, 2021

As developers, we spend the majority of our day in front of a computer screen writing code. Eye fatigue (also known as Asthenopia) can be a serio...
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brandon_wallace • Edited

Check out Hack font.

sourcefoundry.org/hack/
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Braydon Coyer

I like this one as well - thanks for sharing!

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Konstantin Epishev • Edited

I really love condensed fonts, when you can do 2 or 3 splits on your display without horizontal scrolling.

My favorite one is Pragmata Pro. It's not free, but it looks awesome.

If you prefer condensed fonts too, but you don't ready to pay, you can try other awesome fonts from this category:

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kef

Neat. I've been stuck on Cascadia Code PL for a while now, but I do like these listed too.
github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code...

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Braydon Coyer

I've never used this font but it does look good at a glance! Thanks for sharing!

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Nicolus

I've stopped trying to find a new font and just accepted that I'm so used to Consolas now that I'll never be able to use anything else.

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Eric Saupe

I've always loved Dank Mono

medium.com/@philpl/what-sets-dank-...

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aly quey

I'm also using Dank Mono. 🥰 I like it.

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Javad Rajabzadeh

JetBrains Mono font is good

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Anthony R.

Personally I do use JetBrains Mono since 1 year now and I am really happy with it.

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Braydon Coyer

JetBrains Mono is one of my favorites.

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Benjamin Vincent

Victor mono is the best one and it is available as a Nerd Font

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Robert G. Schaffrath

“Victor Mono” I like that play on the late actors name.

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Hardik Chopra

I like Ubuntu Mono 😌

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Hong Phuc Le

JetBrains Mono saves my eyes. Very comfortable for seeing in a long time.

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Ali Sami Farooq

Used only No. 4 font , thank s for sharing this information ~ Ali Sami Farooq

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John Snow

A font, that will actually save you some space on the screen is Inconsolata, which looks cool as well: fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsol...

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Braydon Coyer

I like this one; nice!

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Pawan Pawar

Nice one!!

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Kuroi Vimmer

I use Hack but actually, MonoLisa looks so good.

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John Peters

Seagoe ui is my favorite, but its not monotype.

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Christopher Reeve

Cascadia code still good for me

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Cybear Tron

CONSOLAS AN CONSOLAS!!!!! THE EPIC CONSOLAS GO BRRRRRRRR

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Shrihan

Have a look at Victor Mono! It's kind of a Operator mono for Fira Code!

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Rachman Esa

where is the Open Sans