You might not give a lot thought to the font you at present use for coding. You’re most likely pleased with the default monospaced font that comes together with your favourite IDE, and over time, you’ve turn out to be accustomed to it.
These fonts could also be one of the best fonts for you, however are they really good for common coding? I’d by no means inform you which font is nice (at present, I’m utilizing Ubuntu Mono Common) or dangerous, as there isn’t a strategy to categorically measure it. It does come down to every coder’s desire. However there are particular fonts freely out there designed purely with programmers and coders in thoughts, which you’ll like to contemplate.
With this put up, I simply needed to focus on a few of the finest free monospaced fonts which have been optimized for programming and likewise provide some primary pointers for choosing a specific font.
So what must you be in search of in an excellent monospaced programming font? For starters, it must be clear and extremely readable, proportionally spaced, and for apparent causes, wants to return packaged with an prolonged character set with distinguishable glyphs. And maybe extra importantly than legibility, the ‘1’, ‘i’ & ‘l’ and ‘o’, ‘0’ & ‘O’ should be clearly identifiable as completely different characters.
Nameless Professional by Mark Simonson (Common, Italic, Daring, and Daring Italic)
Alma Mono by Envato Components
Hermit by Pablo Caro (Mild, Medium & Daring)
Edlo by Eric Hamiter
Meslo by André Berg (LG Small, LG Medium & LG Massive)
Vera Sans Mono by Bitstream (Roman, Indirect, Daring & Daring Indirect)
Fira Mono by Mozilla (Common & Daring)
PT Mono by Alexandra Korolkova (Common & Daring)
Envy Code by Damien Guard (Common, Italic & Daring)
Fantasque Sans Mono by Jany Belluz (Common, Italic & Daring)
BPmono by Backpacker (Common, Italic & Daring)
DejaVu (Common, Indirect, Daring & Daring Indirect)
Monaco by Susan Kare and Kris Holmes for OS X
