As a long-time Input Mono user, I have to say I've found it to be an extremely well designed typeface for my programming needs. It does not call attention to itself, but does its job of beautifully nonetheless. After a short acclimation period it simply faded into the background. There was never a time that I was disappointed in its rendering on mac, on either retina or regular displays. Would definitely recommend you give Input Mono a try.
This font is beautiful and has really nice options.
But it lets me with a bitter feeling: as a potential user, I won't even consider using it because non-ASCII latin letters are not treated first-class: it's nice that the letter `i` has all these form variants, but they're not applied as soon as a diacritic comes into play (`ï`, `î`, etc.).
The same letter with and without a diacritic (eg. `e` and `é`) don't even look the same, letting the user with the feeling that this potential need has not even been considered.
I'm using Operator Mono as my programming font for over a year now and never looked back. For me it's the most beautiful looking font (at least on Linux/Mac). I've tried it once on Windows but the hinting was somehow broken.
Im also using the italic monospaced version for code comments and never saw anything similar in any other font . Unfortunately it's not very cheap though
I liked the appearance, but it felt "wrong" to write OSS code using a closed source font. I understand that many will disagree and I'm fine with paying for such things. If nothing else, it meant it would be a special snowflake I'd have to install on my system instead of adding it to the list of packages I just install everywhere.
You'll be so amazed when you discover FontConfig fallback. You can tell freetype to use certain fonts as fallbacks if the font you are using doesn't provide a certain glyph.
Awesome indeed. But oh-my-git is shipped with 3 themes only. So I just stick with their themes. Other methods are way too complicate to fix font issues. All I want is just a font that can be imported into font book or fontforge and let my iTerm2/Terminal to use. That's all.
Another nice configurable monospace font is Monoid [0]. It has optional "Programming" ligatures support Like Fira Code. Seems it was Quite overlooked here [1].
Wow, these guys get it. Customize the "il1" just the way you like it, preview with themes (colors), customize up the width, height and weight just the way that looks perfect on your screen.
I use the non-monospace Input Sans for my IDEs and personally absolutely love it. It's not really an issue for me that I'm losing out on vertical alignment, but there really is something to be said for being able to read code more like a sentence with recognizable word shapes.
No matter how many times I tried new fonts, I've always got back to the basics, the old and simple ones that I was using in the first place, till I started using Roboto Mono [1]. This is a free and great font for terminal and editors. I am using it for years now.
Converted. Particularly I chose the round a, the goggly g, the curvier {, the i with serifs on the both sides at the bottom, and the ell with the bottom curve. I really like that the miniscules are higher than the bottom half of the line, makes it more readable with smaller font sizes and from a good distance.
One thing is though, use images on your font demo pages, instead of using styled text with that fonts: some users (e.g. me) disable web pages setting fonts. I had to go and revert that setting temporarily to see what this one was like.
The configuration is very, very, very cool.
The only downside I see is that the weight steps are a bit too spaced... the 2nd position is not bold enought, the 3rd is too much. But I suppose you can't satisfy everyone !
I've been very happy with Source Code Pro semibold anyway :)
Beautiful but appears to lack programming glyphs, These days I can't live without them, my favourites depending on context are Fira Code and Pragmata Pro.
What I'd really love is the Bloomberg font with glyphs, I've even started looking at how to add them!
I had to jump through some hoops to get that though.
The earliest devices I used had a narrower Zero than Oh, so I'm a bit disappointed that this font goes the other way around. I've always thought the slashed zero was ugly, and the dotted zero even uglier. Other than that I really like it.
I find this hard to read personally, but I'm always glad people are producing type. And the choices with l and i etc, that thing is such a fantastic idea. Will implement something similar when I finally get around to making a typeface.
So many of these fonts can't tell if they want to be a web font for use in a site or a locally installed font for personal use. By going all in on the personal use side, this one gets it right. I'm not even concerned about licensing because I'm just using a customized font for coding in my own editor of choice. Nice job.
