Comment by jdthedisciple
1 year ago
I recently discovered Monaspace [0] and was fairly impressed by its texture healing feature, besides generally looking nice. And it's free.
1 year ago
I recently discovered Monaspace [0] and was fairly impressed by its texture healing feature, besides generally looking nice. And it's free.
Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack (https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a try. It looks really nice and the price is right. The font in the OP looks great too, but I can’t bring myself to pay for it. Not when there’s so many great alternatives out there at no cost.
One class of alternatives you could also consider is narrow fonts like PragmataPro[1] (commercial) or Iosevka[2] (gratis, FOSS). Being able to fit more stuff onto the screen side-by-side is what enabled me to get as much into tmux as I have.
[1] https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/
[2] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
PragmataPro is so close to perfection for me! But it loses to MPlus Code because PragmataPro doesn't support font weights below 400 (yet?)
I still bought it, because it's gorgeous, thank you for sharing it. I've emailed the font creator so hopefully they've got plans for thinner versions.
regular fonts seem wide after several years of me using iosevka
Same. I love experimenting with my coding font and for the past year or so I was using Hack.
I wasn't able to find anything better yet after trying a lot of fonts: Fira, JetBrains Mono, Iosevka, Monaspace, Ubuntu Mono, and others.
Or perhaps I'm too familiar with Hack now and everything else now looks weird..
Hack's Bitstream Vera ancestry brings me back to installing Debian as a thirteen year old, a strong nostalgic pull.
I was the same until I started using Fira Code and don't think I'll ever go back to anything else. the ligatures are worth it
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Hack is very underrated and awesome. Fira Code is nice, so is Adobe Source Code Pro [0], and Iosevka [1]. Yet, Berkeley is truly at its own level.
[0]: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro
[1]: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
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I must say it does look awesome.
Although I'm personally not a fan of ligatures, I feel they may increase mental burden at times;
for example having to look closely if it's = vs == or == vs === among other examples.
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Monaspace has been on the HN frontpage a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38210574
As for free, monospaced fonts, there is also FiraCode.
Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligatures
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
EDIT: @airstrike beat me to it. Anyway, that's my favorite.
This is actually very legible and pleasing to eye. I was mostly using JetBrains Mono until I found Monaspace randomly and it is currently now default.
Can highly recommend, also it is free and has several styles(x5).
This is awesome, I'll try it out when I get back to the office. Very nice find