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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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[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Not that big on ligatures in monospace, really. I think I just go with what seems to look kinda nice and has a big enough amount of symbols to not look weird once a few of them are needed.

Also generally prefer dotted zero, or an inverse Ø. Fonts that make 0 and Ø look the same might as well just drop the slash altogether.

In spite of that I've been using Fantasque Sans Mono for years. At least the slash in its 0 doesn't extend beyond the circle like in an Ø.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

This is my choice too. I love it.