Picking a monospaced code font
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Surely you can afford to be picky1 with your code fonts these days.
Don’t know where to start? https://www.codingfont.com/ (via John Gruber) is a good start:
[…] fun “tournament” from Typogram that lets you pick your favorite monospaced coding font from 32 choices. One limitation is that the only options are free fonts
I highly recommend you disable showing the font names while you play, to avoid any bias toward fonts you already think you have an opinion about.
anarcat also has some good insights, go read his post. In particular:
Surely there is no shortage of monospaced code font playgrounds to try out! His post prompted me to try out Commit Mono for a bit.
Now it’s your turn, go ahead, pick your poison font, I’ll wait.
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These days I use “IBM Plex Mono” on VSCode. “JetBrains Mono” is also a solid choice. ↩︎
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