Nathan Lamont

Notes to Self

Fonts

Font for aircraft via Hacker News re Routed Gothic Font

fonts from BIOSs

Fonts for Code/Terminal

Your current preferred dev font is InputMono or IBM Plex Mono
Dev font browser

JetBrains Mono is an interesting font. Its default has ligatures which are hard to get used to, hated by many, loved by others (= vs == vs === is hard for you to quickly see, e.g.). It has a non-ligature variant JetBrains Mono NL.

For dev, there are three considerations:

  1. Density of information - how many rows fit on screen? How wide is 80 columns?
  2. Clarity of information - how easy is it to parse? Density can affect this.
  3. Personality - how do you feel looking at it?

One of the difficulties in comparing different fonts is that they can have different ideal sizes, it seems. One might be too small at 13 point, where another is perfect at that size.

The following table shows the size, in pixels, of 40 rows of 80 column texts of each of the fonts.

Font NameSizeWidthHeightArea
IBM Plex Mono15720840604,800
InputMono15800760608,000
JetBrains Mono NL15720798574,560

For information density, JetBrains wins. InputMono is 11% wider, 5% shorter, but greater in area by 6% over-all. Maybe worth trying JetBrains even though you greatly prefer the personality of InputMono? Or perhaps it's the lower density of InputMono that makes it "friendlier" to you?

(You seemed to prefer JetBrains Mono NL and Input Mono; maybe try Cousine Regular?) See codingfont.com!

Fonts for Games

Microgamma? (Michroma is a google font that is similar)

Also Jura, Play