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What do you want out of a coding monospace font? (piefed.social)

submitted 10 hours ago by one_old_coder@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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Source from HN because they have shadowbans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773594

I'm wondering too what you are looking for in a font. Good looks, features, options to enable or disable, ligatures?

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[–] fulg@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

I am a big fan of MonoLisa, but it is a paid font.

I wasn’t convinced initially (never paid for a font before!) and found some version of it online, found that I liked it very much, then willingly parted with my money for a license.

I really like the difference between normal and italics, I set up my code editor to use italics for comments.

[–] bradboimler@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Distinct lower case connections

I stopped reading right there 🙂

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

When you said 'paid' I was thinking £5, not £50 (for the basic version!)

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

On PragmataPro, I know it's a bit pricey (60 euros) but I've been using 12 hours a day for years, it has a lot of characters available, supposedly hand-made, and the guy updates it regularly.

I have bought software that was more expensive but had way less usefulness.

[–] fulg@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah that’s why I found an “evaluation” version before. Once I saw it was genuinely great I was happy to pay for a license.

I look at this font 12+ hours a day everyday for work, if this was just for ricing a terminal window I agree it is a bit steep.