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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] vodnik 4 points 2 years ago

I might non ironically start using this

[–] roseh 4 points 2 years ago

Somehow beautiful and terrible at the same time...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

My poor eyes 😂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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

[–] GaussianInteger 6 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] the_observer95 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dranadia 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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] 4 points 2 years ago

Something about just looks a little off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] scorchingheat 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a feeling you'll enjoy Iosevka then.

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

Every time I've seen Iosevka it's looked super narrow, which I appreciated it more because it's different than I actually wanted to use it. I've never seen this site before though and I think it may have sold me on installing it tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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] 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] roseh 3 points 2 years ago

I've been using Inconsolata

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Looks too squished for me, I currently use roboto mono

[–] vodnik 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

I do like Intel's font, but I like things a little more condensed. I'm still on Hack after trying them both.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

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