Coding with Character – Monospaced fonts can be playful and fun

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  • fantasque-sans

    A font family with a great monospaced variant for programmers.

  • After trying a lot of fonts for hours and hours, I ended up with Fantasque Sans Mono: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

    It's somewhat similar to Comic Sans, like the Comic Code from the article, but less playful. It's the most readable programming font I have ever had, with many other typefaces I often see text a little blurry.

  • 3270font

    A 3270 font in a modern format

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  • comic-shanns

    a classy font

  • Oh wow, they really cleaned that one up since I last tried it ages ago! (some of the characters used to be so wonky I just couldn't get over it) Looks really nice now

    Looks like "comic sans-inspired" is a genre. We also have Comic Shans, for example:

    https://github.com/shannpersand/comic-shanns

  • Hack

    A typeface designed for source code

  • No mention of the open source font Hack (maybe because it doesn’t fall into the category of great personalty, but there are many options to customise it…), so here it is:

    https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

  • diamond-types

    The world's fastest CRDT. WIP.

  • I find that a much more readable style. Instead of stuff on the left - assigned to stuff on the right, its now a story made up of steps: First we're figuring getting some variables for text labels, and distances. Then logging that out. Then after that we're updating the label on the overlay. Each step in the story has a little breath (the newline). And if needed, a comment.

    Here's a random work-in-progress example from some real code I'm working on this week. Its not beautiful or overly fancy. Just steady, confident and readable (assuming you know the context):

    https://github.com/josephg/diamond-types/blob/2e807298a70382...

  • Iosevka

    Versatile typeface for code, from code.

  • And as if to prove my point: two days after you did that version 9.x.x was released

    https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases

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