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Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack (https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a try. It looks really nice and the price is right. The font in the OP looks great too, but I can’t bring myself to pay for it. Not when there’s so many great alternatives out there at no cost.

>>logbis+(OP)
I was the same until I started using Fira Code and don't think I'll ever go back to anything else. the ligatures are worth it

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

>>airstr+22
I must say it does look awesome.

Although I'm personally not a fan of ligatures, I feel they may increase mental burden at times;

for example having to look closely if it's = vs == or == vs === among other examples.

>>logbis+(OP)
One class of alternatives you could also consider is narrow fonts like PragmataPro[1] (commercial) or Iosevka[2] (gratis, FOSS). Being able to fit more stuff onto the screen side-by-side is what enabled me to get as much into tmux as I have.

[1] https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

[2] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

>>airstr+22
Hack is very underrated and awesome. Fira Code is nice, so is Adobe Source Code Pro [0], and Iosevka [1]. Yet, Berkeley is truly at its own level.

[0]: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro

[1]: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

>>manana+I3
regular fonts seem wide after several years of me using iosevka

>>jdthed+03
+100 I really dislike ligatures. They are one of those things that seem great in theory but I find them to be a real distraction. This is why I never got into the JetBrains fonts — there was no ligature-free option. (Maybe there is now, but I haven’t felt motivated to try it again.)

>>logbis+(OP)
Same. I love experimenting with my coding font and for the past year or so I was using Hack.

I wasn't able to find anything better yet after trying a lot of fonts: Fira, JetBrains Mono, Iosevka, Monaspace, Ubuntu Mono, and others.

Or perhaps I'm too familiar with Hack now and everything else now looks weird..

>>logbis+Hf
> Maybe there is now

You’re right! Check out the NL (no ligature) version: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/tree/master/fonts...

>>logbis+Hf
You don't have to use them, even if they're in the font, just turn them off in your reditor.

Conversely I can turn them on for code I didn't write.

There is no downside to ligatures.

>>bayind+X3
Source Code Pro is damn near perfect for me, I've been using it for some years. Occasionally I get an itch to explore other fonts, but I always come back to this one, all its refined details just feel good to my eyes.

>>manana+I3
PragmataPro is so close to perfection for me! But it loses to MPlus Code because PragmataPro doesn't support font weights below 400 (yet?)

I still bought it, because it's gorgeous, thank you for sharing it. I've emailed the font creator so hopefully they've got plans for thinner versions.

>>ivanje+Bh
Hack's Bitstream Vera ancestry brings me back to installing Debian as a thirteen year old, a strong nostalgic pull.

>>logbis+Hf
I also dislike ligatures, but I have been using JetBrains Mono for over a year now with ligatures disabled. works great!