We spend a lot of time interacting with type. They influence our thinking, alter trust, determine context, and play with our productivity.
In these weird times where our screen times skyrocket. We should do something to ease our contextual burden and increase our productivity.
This is a list of awesome fonts that will make your code look even more elegant and concise (and makes your more productive 🤞).
Note: This is a personal favourite list (and almost all of them are mono). Please feel free to comment your favourite.
Fira Code Mono
Any font list is incomplete, without this classic font.
Type: Mono | GitHub
Hasklig
This is forked from Source Code Pro and added some nice ligatures in it.
Type: Mono | GitHub
Source Code Pro
This one from Adobe is awesome. It is clean and crisp.
Type: Mono | GitHub
Anonymous Pro
It is fixed width font designed for coding.
Type: Mono | GitHub
Fantasque
A cool and refreshing font. This font has some handwriting like ligatures.
Type: Mono | GitHub
Jetbrains Mono
This one is from the Jetbrains. They already have cool abstract images in their IDE startups. The font is bit oversized but once again it is awesome.
Type: Mono | GitHub
Monoid
It is sharp, bit taller. But the font looks great even in low resolution displays.
Type: Mono | GitHub
Cascadia Code
Windows was the first machine that I ever had. And I used it for a long time at my work (now don't judge me). So this one was my long time favourite. Recently I saw they have open sourced it and it brings back a lot of memories.
Type: Mono | GitHub
Dank (Paid)
This one is pretty cool. But it is paid. I haven't used it personally, but used this in some of my slides (via carbon.now.sh)
Type: Mono | Buy it here
Special Mentions
Voila, meanwhile you have also learnt quickSort
using Haskell 😜
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Top comments (21)
I really want to like those fonts like Cascadia code, Fira or Jetbrains Mono... But everytime I switch to anything other than Consolas it just feels wrong and I can't concentrate... So I've made my peace with it, I'm a Consolas person and that will probably never change (I patch it with powerline characters though).
My favorite font for code is Menlo since I've basically always worked with Macs and even after trying dozens and dozens of other fonts, Menlo just "looks right"
oO0
1l|
({[]})
:;
<- -> <= =>
^*
a<-b
to mean "b into a" or "is a less than negative b" but the font shouldn't be deciding that. I find that ligatures cause me to parse the line twice rather than saving me time. But to each their own! I wish I liked them.Thankfully, there's also a free alternative to Menlo called Meslo: github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font
Im currently using using cascadia code, but i still like
github.com/be5invis/iosevka
I love OpenDyslexic
I think Cascadia is my favorite.
🎉🦄 They are the best
I'll throw in that Cascadia Code comes with Cascadia Mono, if you don't like the ligatures.
Yup! :)
Going all in on Cascadia :D
Jetbrains Mono looks good, it's text as well
Agree completely.
thanks for this! I went with Fantasque Sans Mono. :)
You missed a really good one: Hack Font
sourcefoundry.org/hack/
It looks nice :)