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What do you want out of a coding monospace font? (piefed.social)
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Source from HN because they have shadowbans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773594

I'm wondering too what you are looking for in a font. Good looks, features, options to enable or disable, ligatures?

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[-] aivoton@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Not much, disambiguous characters mostly. I've been using M Plus for years because I sometimes need CJK glyphs. Inconsolata, Fira Code, etc. look OK to me. Still haven't found the perfect typeface to fill my developer-typographic font void.

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