What is your favorite programming font?

#programming #discuss #javascript #webdev

There are tons of options! I used Source Code Pro for a long time, but some time ago I decided to try Iosevka, what font are you using right now for programming?

Top comments (39)

Jenuel Oras Ganawed • May 15 '22

Im using Fira Code in my VS Code,, its really awesome.
check their work here: github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Arun Kumar • May 16 '22

wow I'm switching right now... i was using cascadia code

Jenuel Oras Ganawed • May 16 '22

yeah try it, its really awesome.. :)

Christian Engel • May 15 '22

Just some monospace font, I don't really care about the tiny details.

The only thing I really cant stand at all are fancy fonts which introduce ligatures for code artifacts. So things like === or => get replaced with ONE character. This defeats the purpose of monospace imho because now you have to use extra brain power when reading your code. You always need to remember that these special characters are in fact two or three characters - it makes reading the code harder.

Well, at least for me.

JoelBonetR 🥇 • May 15 '22

Agree, I don't like those ligatures, it's like mental overload when I expect two/three symbols and find one weird one instead that isn't even in my keyboard 😂😂

Felix Macaspac • May 15 '22

MonoLisa ftw!

Calvin Jackson • May 15 '22

Jetbrains Mono for Jetbrains products and Fira Code for vscode and the terminal.

Patrick Wendo • May 15 '22

Fira Code. Most cause it converts stuff like -> to an actual arrow symbol. It's also monospacex and easy on the eyes.

Fira Code is a free monospaced font containing ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster. For some frequent sequences like .. or //, ligatures allow us to correct spacing.

github.com/tonsky/FiraCode you can find more about it here.

Ivan Jeremic • May 15 '22

Nothing better for eyes than Fira Code

Marcelo Haruo Kochiyama • May 15 '22

Mine is being Microsoft's Cascadia Code, mannually patched with Nerd Fonts. Looks incredible on terminal and is very readable and beautiful on vscode.