Jan 9, 2018
Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography
Simply the best monospaced font family for programmers, geeks, and tech savvy people.
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Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography
Simply the best monospaced font family for programmers, geeks, and tech savvy people.
PragmataPro ligatures = coding better
Since v_0.820 every weight includes ligatures. The goal is to improve the readability of the coding texts. Programming languages like Haskell, Scala, Swift and many others are based on ligatures. The complete list of ligatures available are visible clicking here and here
A Coders Font IS Important!
So you can write hundreds of lines of great code, but does is it good to look at? You might spend hours looking at code, and if its your job that will probably be a lot! When I finally realised that there were such things as font for programmers I went about trying to understand what the best style to use are.
It turns out fixed-width/monospace fonts are the ones to look out for, you have probably seen Courier being used a lot because it fits this requirement. However that's about the only thing it does well, I was looking for something that looked a little better...
Now, understandably choosing a font is always down to the individual and my favourite font doesn't even feature on this excellent post of the 'The Top 10 Programming Fonts' http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/.
My favourite is called Bitstream Vera Sans Mono and comes from the Gnome Project, it can be downloaded from here http://www-old.gnome.org/fonts/. I've used it for several years in many different programming languages, and find it visually easy to read and very clear at many different sizes of font. Here is a screenshot of this font being used within Eclipse, language being Java.
Would you not agree its pretty sweet!