Thread 105977875

best programming font?

for me it's Fira Code

hack
/thread

>>105977875 (OP)
for me it's Menlo

Imagine having opinions about fonts.

>>105977956
this, font does not matter
if you have a problem coding in wingdings you are not a real programmer

Liberation Mono

As long as it's monospaced, it doesn't matter
And for where fonts do matter, Helvetica is the clear superior choice

Anything without ligatures will do.

Aporetic Sans Mono

Maple Mono

prefer jetbrains mono to fira code atm

>>105978200
interesting

>>105978212
gross

the default one

Meslo LG S DZ
or >>105977886

>>105977875 (OP)
monocraft

>>105977875 (OP)
If you use ligatures in your font you are either a foid or a web shitting pajeet.

>>105977875 (OP)
Fira Code is a nice font but it's too wide, I prefer Iosevka.

>>105977875 (OP)
For me, it's Iosevka.

For me, it's my friend's proprietary font.
Previously, I used to use these:
>>105977875 (OP)
Good for Python
>>105977886
>>105977933
Good for C
>>105978220
Good for JS
>>105979869 >>105979883
Overall great, especially for terminals

>>105977875 (OP)
I apparently have a dev tech role, but I don't code, so I don't have one.

>>105977875 (OP)
JetBrains Mono

>>105979895
>Good for C
I am a js/ts dev and use Menlo for it, why would it be better for C and why would jetbrains mono be better for js?

>>105980040
>ligatures
>pointless comments

>>105980112
Menlo is fine for JS too but I like it for C because of the centered asterisk and simple curly braces.
Jetbrains Mono is a little bit more squished which is better for JS as there isn't as big of a need to spot small random & or *, and it has ligatures for things like ===

>>105977875 (OP)
Code: Samsung Sans
UI: Consolas

>>105980139
I have used jetbrains mono for a long time before I switched to Menlo and I don't really see a difference except what you said it is a little bit more condensed. I don't use ligatures so I don't care.

>>105980040
That theme is so noisy

>he's not using a serif font
ngmi

Unironically comicgggrd8

>>105979895
suggest one for php

IBM Plex Mono or Noto Sans

>>105979869
>>105978150
you faggots find the dumbest things to hate
why the fuck are ligatures bad now?

>>105979895
>>105980122
Show tits.

>>105977886
I use this, am I missing anything?

>>105977875 (OP)
hack-nerd-font

Jeetbrains Mono NL.
Use it for just about anything. Programing, terminals, notepads, Firefox.

>>105978200
the patrician's choice

>>105980814
literally unreadable and also only webshitters/w*men use them

>>105977875 (OP)
I use dejavu sans mono because that's easily available and I've always used it.

>>105977886
too bad hack has ugly zeros

>>105977875 (OP)
whatever is set as default because I'm not an hrt user

>>105977875 (OP)
Terminus

>>105979751
I love how they added "supposedly" after people realised that you could just google shit.
>the flight numbers of the airplanes that hit the towers were AA11 and UA175; the tail numbers were N334AA and N612UA

>>105979751
>>105982073
obama retroactively changed the plane numbers to hide democrat involvement.

>>105977875 (OP)
fira code because i've been using it for almost 10 years

>>105981981
>Terminus
This, everywhere.

>>105977875 (OP)
Whatever comes by default in VSCode.

>>105983833
You think it strange that you don't even know what it is called, yet post in a thread specifically about fonts? This is about choice.

>>105981426
check out DejaVu Sans Mono - Bront. it has some nice subtle improvements.

>>105983856
I choose to not be a tinker tranny.

>>105977956
Really fucking sick of faggots who act like they're better than others just because they "don't have opinions" about X. Being a tasteless faggot is one thing, but acting like you're better than other people for it is fucking retarded. What's even more stupid about people who say this shit is that when you get down to it, these morons still 100% have an opinion on these things, because there's a 0 percent chance you see every font as equal.

>>105984046
You choose to be ignorant, though. You can tinker without being a faggot.

>>105984664
how does it feel eyewards?

>>105977875 (OP)
Mononoki for code, Berkeley Mono for interface

>>105984728
I am getting more of a seared bite on Terminus, than I am Codepage. Hope that helps.
>>105984740
>Berkeley Mono
I am digging those slashed 7s, takes me back to my Navy days. A shame you have to pay for them.

>>105984765
>A shame you have to pay for them.
There's a pirated version around on telegram and possibly some other sites with all versions and up to date font.

>>105984776
I think I am going to add the slashed 7s to Terminus.ttf instead.

>>105977875 (OP)
I root for Berkeley Mono but I use MonoLisa everywhere I can’t use SF Mono

>>105980814
I don’t like them
I tried them and they’re kind of confusing

>>105985584
>MonoLisa
The lowercase g would piss me off forever.

>>105985597
Looks unremarkable to me
What’s pissing you off about it

>>105985621
These posts have examples in the thread for you to see:
>>105984740
>>105981449
The ``tail'' of the g is to drop down on the right side and curl to the left. Not drop down on the left like a lower case P, then form another loop as if it is a broken and melting number 8 hanging together by a thread.
>pisses me off
The fact it is not correct and simply trying to look good while failing. The feelings are not very strong, mind you, but they will never go away.

Trying to find historical bias for my preference, I found this:
https://www.sciencealert.com/lowercase-g-two-print-forms-looptail-opentail-writing-reading-comprehension
lol

>>105977875 (OP)
Adobe source code pro looks nice and clean i guess.

>>105983381
Fresh off the boat, from reddit, kid? heh I remember when I was just like you. Braindead. Lemme give you a tip so you can make it in this cyber sanctuary: never make jokes like that. You got no reputation here, you got no name, you got jackshit here. It's survival of the fittest and you ain't gonna survive long on 4chan by saying stupid jokes that your little hugbox cuntsucking reddit friends would upboat. None of that here. You don't upboat. You don't downboat. This ain't reddit, kid. This is 4chan. We have REAL intellectual discussion, something I don't think you're all that familiar with. You don't like it, you can hit the bricks on over to imgur, you daily show watching son of a bitch. I hope you don't tho. I hope you stay here and learn our ways. Things are different here, unlike any other place that the light of internet pop culture reaches. You can be anything here. Me ? heh, I'm a judge.. this place.... this place has a lot to offer... heh you'll see, kid . . . that is if you can handle it...

Whatever is default + light theme, as the founding fathers of programming and Terry used.

have any of you tried coding with times new roman? perhaps serif fonts are actually good

>>105992011
I think Ive done it once before but I cant remember why

>>105980122
>Markdown backticks in the comments
Anon, that's LLM generated code

>>105977875 (OP)
whatever is default VS one as i have better things to do than rice every fucking shit.

>>105985681
I went to the website and it looked like an unremarkable single-story g when I wrote >>105985621
then you replied
so I tried looking at it in BBEdit and turns out, the website is erroring out for me and just showing me Monaco
I can see how someone would be bothered by a single-story g trying to pass as a double-story g with a bow in its hair

>>105993341
Those comments look LLM-generated but I put backticks in my comments organically

>>105993420
Consolas is a good font too and you shouldn’t be defensive about using it even though you didn’t actively choose it

>>105977875 (OP)
Go-mono, never looked back.

>>105993942
Daring!
(I hated it)

>>105993950
It's an acquired taste that grows on you.

>>105978262
Slash thread

>>105977875 (OP)
unforgivable sins:
>bar of f and t don't line up with each other
>bar of f and t don't line up with tops of regular-height letters like n
>double storey g
>ligatures
>just fuck my lowercase r up (we had to stand out somehow)
>random cursive forms in italic
>pointlessly complex geometry, e.g. shit that should be straight lines being curves, things that should be simple curves being elaborate for no reason
>>105993942
>Go-mono
the fact that the bottom of loop of the g doesn't line up with literally anything else would be on this list if anyone else had been insane enough to design a font like that

>>105985584
I think there must be some kind of disorder like tone-deafness or colour-blindness but for fonts, and I think you have it. kill yourself and then donate your brain to science

>>105980413
>IBM Plex Mono
I'm gonna post this here so that people who are too lazy to look it up can have a full appreciation of how embarrassed you should be to have posted this

>>105994473
Works on my machine

>>105994446
I don’t use the italics anywhere
I don’t like that kind of thing

>>105994434
>the fact that the bottom of loop of the g doesn't line up with literally anything else would be on this list if anyone else had been insane enough to design a font like that.

Never noticed, but now my programming OCD's kicking in and I'm already questioning life choices.

>>105994446
That or he's a jeet longing for streetshitter scribble.

>>105977875 (OP)
MonteCarlo

>>105994762
very nice

>>105977875 (OP)
Differentiate:
> - –
> 0 o O °
> 1 7 i I l L |
> A R
> 8 B
> 8 E
> vv w VV W

Line through zero character.

Vertical, horizontal, & both options for monospace.

What else?

>>105994831
Terminus (TTF) for Windows has trouble with the dash / em_dash, though I swear when I type them out myself I can almost perceive a difference.
em_dash dash
— -
>What else?
>q p g
>C G Q
;3 :^) XD

>>105994860
That is almost perfect, anon. Got something like it or better on Linux?

>>105977875 (OP)
Also for OP:
1. which fonts should be removed?
2. Which fonts are good for other tasks like spreadsheet, word processing, web pages, UI, etc?

>>105994946
xfont-terminus is what I install

Do I seriously share the board with people too poor to pay €199 for PragmataPro?

>>105995297
I would rather not have the money to be able to afford the $199 price tag, than be lacking in the taste department and thinking $199 is acceptable for fonts that look like shit.

>>105978200
Godamn i miss mIRC

Default Iosevka is too narrow

>>105980814
ligature... niggature... aint nobody got time.

>>105977875 (OP)
Caskaydia Cove

>>105995370
When it first came out, there were tards on HN trying to flex that they were using it, and touting all of their purported productivity gains.

>>105995874
I don't see it, but it might be a non-English language thing I won't be able to experience.

>>105977875 (OP)
For me, a white man, it's Comic Sans.