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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You'll have to pry Comic Code from my cold dead hands!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I might non ironically start using this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My poor eyes 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Somehow beautiful and terrible at the same time...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ve been using this for two days now on high contrast mode in Jetbrains IDEs I love it!!

Edit: wait I lied, I’m using Comic Mono, same idea though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have Comic Mono too, it's great. I'm using Comic Code for ligature support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ooo might have to check that out

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

damn my eyes are feasting rn

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yup, that's what I use simply out of not changing too many settings when I install an IDE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It looks gorgeous

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I still find Fira Code and Meslo to be better. Nothing beats these 2 fonts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried it at work for a few weeks but in the end I went back to Iosevka. Not sure if it’s something with the Intel font, being used to Iosevka, some combination of those, or something completely unrelated, but it’s the only font I can use comfortably on daily basis, after migrating from Operator

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on my own experience and years of spectating flamewars I figure somewhere between 40-80% of any programmer's aesthetic preference is familiarity. I use Liberation Mono (probably because it was the default on some ancient version of CentOS or something) and I doubt it'd be anyone's first choice, but every now and then I'll come across something with its own defaults and it just bugs me.

On topic, the most obvious difference between Intel One and Iosevka is the radically different aspect ratio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think the aspect ratio is one of the main problems for me, which is funny because I’ve heard people being surprised when they saw my terminal window that my font is so narrow :p

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like the curly braces (much easier to spot the difference from some other fonts that lack a well defined point).

But I'm still a fan of fira code for generally well done ligatures.

Edit: fira code, not sans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For my taste it looked a little too wide. Not as good as JetBrains Mono.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

+1 for JetBrains mono. Been using it for years now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Source Code Pro by Adobe for a few years now, which is confusingly named because it's not a paid font.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same! Although I suspect the Pro bit came at the time when it still mean professional and not full version.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No dotted 0. Boo! Iosevka Term Slab for life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Something about just looks a little off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks alright. I might give it a try. I tested out a bunch of different mono fonts recently and landed on Fira Code. I'm still getting used to ligatures but so far I'm liking it more than I expected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Love Fira Code with ligatures

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For me Dejavu sans mono is a really good mono font, and it's Foss 🙂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't like fonts where the glyphs look wider than they are tall? In my head I call them 'fat fonts'. IIRC Source Code Pro is like that? I used FiraCode for the longest time but recently migrated to Victor Mono. The Italics haven't warmed on me but the rest of the faces including the Obliques look great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The second time I heard about Victor Mono today. I might download it today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have a feeling you'll enjoy Iosevka then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Looks pretty good. I don't think anything will end up shaking me loose from hasklig, but more choice is pretty much never a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Adobe's Source Code Pro for years (which they don't even mention as an open source monospace font). This looks pretty good, but I am not a fan of the parenthesis () and braces {} they look almost hand-drawn (or perhaps the arc is to harsh or something, IDK).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The braces are a bit weird but they should be easier to distinguish at first glance because of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Cool font, I'll have to give it a try.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’d like to see a font like this eventually replace the Ubuntu system typeface. There’s a lot of nostalgia and charm in that font, but it’s godawful ugly T_T

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't like the braces :( Meslo LG M shall remain my daily driver

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a Fira Code (patched w/ Nerd Font) user, but love to try out a new font every once in a while. This one does look nice. Will have to see about patching it w/ the nerd font glyphs, as my tmux/nvim output is going to look like garbage w/o those.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using Inconsolata

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Personally, I still prefer PragmataPro (tho I do admit it is a very expensive font), but this does look pretty good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks too squished for me, I currently use roboto mono

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve been using Hack for the past few years. But no doubt gonna give this a go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using Hack as my font of choice since probably around 2016 I think. I did a close comparison between the 2 after downloading it, and wow! I think this Intel font might finally replace Hack as my programming font of choice. The font does a great job of making all the common character look distinct from each other. I especially notice the parens and braces having some nice detail. I'll have to try it out on actual files, but it looks good so far!

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