CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font (www.codingfont.com)
from who@feddit.org to programming@programming.dev on 30 Mar 20:51
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Zikeji@programming.dev on 30 Mar 20:59 next collapse

I got Fira Code, the font I currently use. Guess that makes sense then. Huh.

Mad_Punda@feddit.org on 30 Mar 22:10 next collapse

Same. At some point I barely saw any differences anymore. I was so surprised to see the font I thought I liked actually being the winner.

who@feddit.org on 30 Mar 23:09 next collapse

With or without ligatures? Without them, I think it’s essentially Fira Mono.

Zikeji@programming.dev on 30 Mar 23:30 collapse

With. The site narrowed me down to the ligatures.

PoY@lemmygrad.ml on 31 Mar 08:15 collapse

same

eager_eagle@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 21:34 next collapse

Share Tech Mono

www.codingfont.com/ShareTechMono

whelk@retrolemmy.com on 31 Mar 02:00 collapse

I got this one too, high five

marlowe221@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 22:14 next collapse

Ubuntu Mono for me

bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 30 Mar 23:24 next collapse

Noto Sans Mono for me

tal@lemmy.today on 31 Mar 00:03 next collapse

I use “mono-9” in all my terminals, including for emacs. On my Debian trixie system, that maps to DejaVu Sans Mono in the fonts-dejavu-mono package.

$ cat ~/.config/foot/foot.ini
[main]
font=mono-9
$ fc-match mono-9
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
$ fc-list|grep DejaVuSansMono.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
$ dpkg -S /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
fonts-dejavu-mono: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
$

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts

The DejaVu fonts are a superfamily of fonts designed for broad coverage of the Unicode Universal Character Set. The fonts are derived from Bitstream Vera (sans-serif) and Bitstream Charter (serif), two fonts released by Bitstream under a free license that allowed derivative works based upon them; the Vera and Charter families were limited mainly to the characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement portions of Unicode, roughly equivalent to ISO/IEC 8859-15, and Bitstream’s licensing terms allowed the fonts to be expanded upon without explicit authorization.

The full project incorporates the Bitstream Vera license, an extended MIT License, which restricts naming of modified distributions and prohibits individual sale of the typefaces, although they may be embedded within a larger commercial software package (terms also found in the later Open Font License); to the extent that the DejaVu fonts’ changes can be separated from the original Bitstream Vera and Charter fonts, these changes have been deeded to the public domain.[1]

howmuchlonger@lemmy.org on 31 Mar 00:17 next collapse

Courier Prime… bleh

muzzle@lemmy.zip on 31 Mar 07:42 next collapse

most of them just look the same to me. Also I can’t be arsed to do so many comparisons. I

need a designer to make a proper decision tree where at each first you chose between wildly different families and at every step someone who knows font design highlights what the main differences are.

hobata@lemmy.ml on 31 Mar 10:01 collapse

Sure you enabled font loading in your uBlock origin? 😁

x00z@lemmy.world on 31 Mar 10:26 next collapse

Source Code Pro, which I have been using for ages. I guess most people end up wanting what they are used to.

Hexarei@beehaw.org on 31 Mar 12:18 collapse

I’ve used Iosevka for years, unsurprising that I got Ubuntu mono