Comment by creichenbach

I was using proportional fonts for a couple weeks. A problem I ran into was that in coding styles that I typically work with, you need to align stuff with spaces to match some artifact on a previous line (e.g. an opening paren of a function call). At that point you pretty much need the space to be as wide as any non-whitespace character that might appear there, otherwise things end up looking wrong. This is what basically killed it for me. a) I don't like how it looks. And b), I don't want to have patches bounced over formatting trivia that I don't notice.

(Edit: typos.)

It's not just proportional. I've used Input Mono as my goto text editor font for many years now.

I've been using proportional for a few years now and can never go back to typewriter fonts (code just looks wrong). This looks really nice, I was looking for a proportional coding font. I'll have to give it a shot!

Too bad it doesn't include programmer ligatures, I've been looking for a proportional font that included those (I tried hacking them in myself but couldn't figure out the font hacking tool chain).

> For those feeling adventurous: Input[1] is a proportional font made for coding

I consider myself fairly adventurous, but this is clearly beyond my comfort zone :)

Thank you for this!

I'm not adventurous enough for proportional fonts, but the monospaced Input looks quite nice. And I'd not heard of it before. I'll definitely give it a spin.

Proportional coding font? For the non discerning coder?

I've been using it since about a year -- I love it. The Serif/Sans Serif versions are also quite good.