What is your default font for coding and terminal?

JetBrains Mono! Used to use Roboto Mono, because I liked how close it was to a standard sans-serif font, but JB Mono is similarly spaced and has the advantage of built-in ligatures and such.

Iosevka Term Regular

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

I've been using FiraCode for a year or so and like it pretty well https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

I've been using JetBrains Mono recently, switching over from SF Mono on MacOS and Fira Code on Windows. SF Mono looks great and Fira Code has nice ligatures, but JBM has the best of both and a really nice shape.

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

Cascadia Mono/Code, depending if I feel like having ligatures:

https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code

It has the option to enable cursive italics, which is disabled by default. Been using it for over a year. No complaints.

Iosevka: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

Grumpy curmudgeon here still using DejaVu (and it's Vera Sans ancestor before that). I'm sure there's lots of good choices, but DejaVu is great, it's everywhere and it's free. Just don't see a lot of value in shopping around.

I used to spend a lot of time fiddling with visual properties of my desktop in the past.

Nowadays I just install Xubuntu, add i3 and mostly use it as it is. So the terminal happens to be white on black and the Emacs black on white. I don't think about it, but apply the rule they give for healthier sitting: The next position is the healthiest one (meaning switch often).

I don't even know whether my terminal and my Emacs (main tools besides the browser) use the same font or not. Why would that interest me as long as I can read both? Sometimes when something has changed on a new installation (UI people want to do continuous improvement...) it might look ugly at first. After 3 days I don't notice it anymore. Hardly ever that I would spend any time to change it back as it has always been.

If you present online (other than slides) you should know the shortcuts to change the fontsize. And possibly change your cursor and selection color to make them recognizable for remote attendees.

I like using IBM Plex Mono. https://github.com/IBM/plex • https://www.ibm.com/plex/

Julia Mono: https://juliamono.netlify.app/

By far the best monospaced font I have seen, discovered on HN. Before that, I used Ligconsolata (Inconsolata with ligatures).

Hack. Both in Sublime Text and urxvt terminals. And as a i3 system font. And as a fixed font for Firefox and Thunderbird.

I'm forking envypn[0] to make some characters more recognizable or just give them some personality (a and g, for example), and doing a slanted version. Slow process since I'm not using any graphical editor whatsoever but editing it "by hand". Hope to release it soon though.

[0] https://github.com/hicolour/envypn-font

For IDEs and text editors, I use Dank Mono[0] 14pt.

On my personal machine, my terminal font is Cozette[1] 13pt, while on my company machine it's Dank Mono[0] 14pt.

In the past I've also used SF Mono[2], Fira Code[3] and Anonymous Pro[4] among others.

[0]: https://philpl.gumroad.com/l/dank-mono [1]: https://github.com/slavfox/Cozette [2]: https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ [3]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode [4]: https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro

These days, I use Comic Code for coding and JetBrainsMono for the terminal.

https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

PragmataPro.

https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

Modularly spaced and monospaced; true bolds and italics; ligatures. It is more condensed than most system fonts.

The full set is €199, and I've found it worth it. You can buy individual fonts too.

Quinze https://www.programmingfonts.org/#quinze

I was on a quest to find the narrowest font and Quinze was the answer. It's something like 20% narrower than Iosevka, which is already quite narrow. I love Iosevka but to me nothing beats maximizing the area of the characters (readability) while minimizing their width (fitting more characters on a line). That means sacrificing the number of lines on the screen, which I solve by splitting when needed.

In fact this font is so narrow that when I attempted to force its use in all monospace text in the browser, readability took a hit instead of improving. This is because at the same height Quinze is much smaller than "normal" fonts. In my coding setup I use a huge font size so it's no problem.

I've tried a lot of different monospaced fonts, but I've settled on these 3:

IDE:

• Cascadia Mono - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/cascadia-c...

• CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font (as a fallback) - https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...

Terminal:

• Hack Nerd Font - https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...

I used the Terminus bitmap font until a year ago because I found it really clear and sharp even on small sizes. Since bitmap fonts are not that well supported anymore, I switched to JetBrains Mono for both terminal and IDE. I started using JetBrains Mono in my IDEs as soon as it came out.

Fira Code with ligatures

    brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
    brew install --cask font-fira-code

Deja Vu Sans Mono

I've tried many but that one is just unbeatable.

My default font is ”whatever they have selected as default”. I’m not nearly competent enough as an UI designer to pick better fonts than the person working for Apple / Microsoft / Jetbrains. I trust their judgement.

Terminal: Courier

Xcode (Code editor): Victor Mono Regular (Heard about it here): https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/

Hack (https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/) in editor, and Monospace Regular in terminal.

Source code pro: https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/

Iosevka with Nerd Fonts patched.

InconsolotaGo NF for Terminals and Consolas for IDE

I use HackGen35 Console it's a composite of Hack and GenJyuu-Gothic. It has a brew cask.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-fonts/blob/master/...

My eyesight isn't so hot because of chronic shingles in my left eye. On a 13" 2015 MBP: SF Mono Medium 18pt, antialias disabled, Use bold fonts enabled. Light beige text on a chalkboard green background. Character spacing .911, line spacing 1. Took a bit of experimenting to settle on this but has been great.

I use Input sans condensed for all programming languages because I prefer non squeezed display for wide characters, except for Go lang, which I used Input mono condensed instead since the auto formatter use space as comments offsets

https://input.djr.com/

B 612 because it was designed for the cockpit of Airbus planes. Would feel even better if it wasn't a google font.

Nouveau IBM

https://www.dafont.com/nouveau-ibm.font

Before that, I used Cousine. I probably still do in some places.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cousine

Verily Serif Mono (plus a few modifications). I find serif fonts much easier to read, and this one is the most non-monospace-like font I've ever found. (I've modified it to have a visually heavier semicolon and a visually lighter underscore, so my code is easier to read.)

SF Mono

Go Mono and also Iosevka (a fairly narrow font). I also historically used Bitstream Vera Sans, (and occasionally still do).

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/go-mono

I currently use jetbrains font on vscode. It's quite good. The bold font-weight and font-size of 15 are the settings I use.

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

For VS Code: FiraCode with ligatures enabled (yes I'm one of those weirdos)

For the terminal: Inconsolata.

The only IDE I've every changed the default font in is Teradata SQL Assistant because the comma was one pixel different from the period and it would confuse me constantly. I'm always a little surprised people are so into coding fonts.

Victor Mono. I went through a bunch of fonts recently looking for that right fit and Victor ended that search nicely.

https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/

Super boring answer, but …

On Mac: the Apple one.

On PC: the VS Code one.

They are pleasant to look at. I never have l1I problems and I don’t think ligatures are appropriate in monospace scenarios as I find it quite important for me as a reader of code to know what each individual character is.

Dina Font, always Dina Font https://www.dcmembers.com/jibsen/download/61/

I'm just posting this for all of us who don't care one bit or are content with the defaults. :)

I know an ugly font when I see one, but whatever JetBrains IDEs, macOS' Terminal and Xcode use is fine by me.

Offtopic.

Something seems wrong with HN.

My newest comments don't show up under "threads".

And curiously when I click on "threads" my karma counter is a few points lower than when I click on a random comment thread.

Berekely Mono

https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono

Consolas looks good and is the default for VS code on Windows

DM Mono! https://fonts.google.com/specimen/DM+Mono

macOS, iTerm, Menlo

Menlo isn't the perfect font, but it's good enough and I wasted way too much time trying to find the perfect font. So to force myself from fiddling with fonts, I just stick with Menlo (This is also the same reason why I prefer macOS over Linux for my OS: forces me to fiddle less with customization because it has less).

JetBrains Mono is quite nice as well. I don't always switch it off when using JetBrains products.

Huge fan of Ubuntu Mono (UbuntuMono Nerd Font Mono)

D2Coding by Naver, it's a narrow font but not looking crazy like other narrow fonts

Terminal: Alacritty Font: Envy Code R

A nice combination in Vim on my minimal Arch setup.

How does PragmataPro vs Iosevka compare?

I use Iosevka, but am curious about PragmataPro

ProFontIIx for terminal, Source Code Pro for text editor.

Menlo or something that looks like it. I’m pretty boring.

I've been pretty happy with Fantasque Sans Mono.

Whatever the default Windows Terminal font is.

Monaco. I’m old.

Menlo on MacOS, Ubuntu Mono on Linux.

Hack font https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

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I settled on SF Mono long ago.

I usually switch between these:

- Consolas

- IBM Plex Mono

- Monaco

- Monofur

- Ubuntu Mono

- -*-clean-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2

my terminal font is OCR-A gotta have that retro-tech style.

Courier 10 pitch

Source Code Pro

Fantasque Sans

Pragmata Pro

Pragmata Pro

Comic Sans

Iosevka