Coding/terminal fonts: what's your fave?

[Dan Q]

Some people just use the default fonts their software gives them in their terminal or code editor; some people are really picky that they use a particular font (I met somebody once who'd configured his editor to use a variable-width handwriting font for code comments only and while I admired the artistry I couldn't stand to look at it!).

Personally, I configure both my command-line terminal and my text editors with Fantasque Sans Mono:

Here's why I love it:

• It's monospaced, but playful! I have to code in monospaced (all characters the same width) fonts or it throws off my indentation, but Fantasque achieves this while using playful rounded letter shapes
• It crosses the 0 - an absolute must for me; I hate when a coding font's "number zeros" look like it's "letter ohs"
• It's OpenType ligatures are sick - when I type >=, it becomes ≥, but it's designed in such a way that the character width remains "proper" (i.e. it's two-characters wide); this is hard to explain but promise me that it looks great - the same's true for lots of other multi-character symbols too, like ==, ===, =>, ->, != (becomes ≠ !), <!-- and so many more.

So what about you? Do you have a favourite terminal or code font? Do you use different ones for both? Or do you just use what comes as standard?

[nipchip]

Oh my gosh terminal and code editor customisation!!

Inconsolata is my coding font of choice, both on my work and home computers. Been happily coding with it for years. I haven't thought too much why I like it, but it's monospaced and super readable.

On top of that, I'm currently on the Catppuccin (Mocha) colour palette.

As a combo, I think it's quite easy on the eyes for long coding sessions.

[Watanabe_1994]

I really don't touch external IDE's from my website hosting service's internal one unless I REALLY REALLY have to these days. HL1 scripting is pretty minimal and only needs a text editor for client side and is mostly handled through triggers on HAMMER or J.A.C.K like m_iszPlay, m_iszIdle, scripted_sentence ex. ex. you get the point. IF I do need an external ill just use the defaults since I will not be working on it for long.



For system terminal (xterm, konsole) its pritty basic. Black background, green directory pointing (user@computer:~/whatever$) and white text.

[candycanearter07]

Easily Monocraft! It's nostalgic for me (i used to play minecraft a lot) and it also scales really well for being a pixel font. It also supports programming liguratures, which is super super cool!



My second favorite is Fairfax, since it looks really nice and clean, the problem is it either becomes very blurry or goes to the fallback font when in different sizes, but its still good for fixed-size stuff like the terminal

[lakes]

I usually use Cool Retro Term with the default font, same with my code editor, Kate. But for the XFCE Terminal, I actually use Amiga Bold.

[noahie]

Monospace everything. In my terminal, my text editor, my browser—my whole life is in monospace. Funny enough, I only discovered the font in recent years and didn't find out about it as a defacto coding font until way after I installed my friendly neighborhood GNU/Linux distribution and made a website. I've always been a fan of those typewriter-looking fonts like Courier and Source Code Pro or whatever because I like manuscripts and that kind of thing (maybe one day, Disney!). But yeah, once I saw the ubiquity of monospace fonts, that's when I knew it was going to be the only font I want to read anything in anymore. I don't even code like that, so I don't really need to use the ligatures or anything. But it's just such a beautiful font; it makes me feel like I'm in a cyberpunk noir movie that's 1940 and 2077 at the same time.