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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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[-] Maddier1993@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I am picky and get bored all the time. These fonts below have had my attention for significant period of time.

  1. Used Hack for sometime and got bored of the weird diamond on the zero. Hence, downloaded HackSlash, A patched variant with slashed zero.
  2. Fira Code
  3. Source Code Pro
  4. Customized version of Iosevka mixed with monaco.
  5. Input mono but I changed the variants to get curved i, l, J
  6. Ubuntu mono
  7. Maple Mono (Latest I am trying)
  8. Menlo
  9. Consolas
  10. PT Mono
  11. Red Hat Mono
  12. CodeNewRoman Nerd Font

Someone mentioned codingfont.com.. but I spoil it for myself by immediately recognizing the fonts I already got weary of and get varying results just like if I let my picky self choose.

Edit: Probably forgot to mention that I have tried the Nerd font variants and exclusively the NF variants of above fonts like CodeNewRoman NF, BlexMono, CommitMono NF

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