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title: "Picking a monospaced code font"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2024/12/picking-a-monospaced-code-font/
last_updated: 2025-09-05
---


Surely you can afford to be picky[^1] with your code fonts these days.

Don't know where to start? https://www.codingfont.com/ ([via John
Gruber](https://www.codingfont.com/)) 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](https://anarc.at/blog/2024-05-29-playing-with-fonts-again/) also has
some good insights, go read his post. In particular:

- https://devfonts.gafi.dev/
- https://www.programmingfonts.org/

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.

[^1]: These days I use "IBM Plex Mono" on VSCode. "JetBrains Mono" is also a
    solid choice.