I Built a Site for the Best Coding Fonts

I'm always looking for a coding font that looks great with my favorite editor theme and language. Searching for coding fonts has been a pain since there is no way to see how a font will look until you download and install the font, then change your editor to use it.

Enter Dev Fonts

devfonts.gafi.dev is a list of the best coding fonts I could find around, along with an interactive preview where you can change the preview theme, code language, or the code sample for the preview.

My current favorite font is Cascadia Code. What is yours?

The source code for the site is on github

PRs for missing fonts are welcome, check the notes here

Comments

[Jason C. McDonald]

Nice! Thanks for building this.

My favorite coding font is Hack, but I don't see it!

[Mostafa Gaafar]

Added it. Thanks!

[Will Adams]

Hack for me too. Nerd patched.

[Achilles Moraites]

Thanks for sharing!
My favorite font is JetBrains Mono :)

[Amir Hameed]

How about a Vote feature, or a Like feature to bring up figures of most liked or used font(s)?

[Mostafa Gaafar]

It'd be great but it comes with the complexity of managing a backend or a service for authentication & storage. Do you know a simple way to implement it?

[Benjamin Bromberg]

Great tool! Like many others I found my way to JetBrains Mono but alternatives are always good to have.

For simple backend features hooking up firebase or amplify might be simple enough and probably free.

[Amir Hameed]

I understand. I shall look for a way to do that in a simple way. If you need my help, let me know.

[Heiko Kanzler 🇪🇺]

Great one. Glad to see that I am not the only one who loves to have a great looking font in my Editor.
One feature suggestion: support the preview of italics as-well.

My current favorite is JetBrains Mono.
May I recommend to add Input Mono aswell? It's also a very thought coding font.

[Davey Jacobson]

Input Mono was my go-to until JetBrains Mono came along.

[Denis Lapi]

Nice work, I really like it!! :)
I played a bit around with the app. What do you think about having two fonts/column per row maybe?
It will increases the possibility to compare more fonts with less scrolls.
Something like this: prnt.sc/rzxqs3

[Sibusiso Dlamini]

I don't know the name of the font but its sublime text-default. There is just something about the sublime setup that appeals to my taste which is why its my favourite text editor. I can't explain but it makes my code look juicy or saturated unlike most themes which are often dry like VS codes default themes. But that's just my opinion :)

[Gert Van de Ven]

Great job Mostafa! I was actually trying to figure out which font to use on my new laptop. This helps a lot to get a great overview.

Some feedback:

• It took me a few seconds to figure out the compare mode
• When a name is filtered, and compare is on especially, I was wondering why it only showed me one. This might be the preferred behavior, but got me confused.
• When switching between themes, it always flashes to white in between.

Other than that! Awesome work, keep it up!

[Maximilian Burszley]

It took me a while, but when it added ligatures, it became my go-to: Iosevka

[Nicholas Cloud]

This is awesome, and makes me happy.

Just a reminder, if you use Homebrew on OSX there is a font cask from which many of these can be installed: github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-...

And likewise, if you use scoop for Windows: github.com/matthewjberger/scoop-ne...

[Theodoros Orfanidis]

Nice! There's a few fonts missing:
Input Mono: input.fontbureau.com/
Fantasque Sans Mono: github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

A useful addition would be the languages/scripts supported. Most of them cover Latin, but there are fonts that support Cyrillic, Greek, etc.

[Mostafa Gaafar]

I can't keep up with all the font requests, feel free to open a PR if you want github.com/Gaafar/dev-fonts/blob/m...