FBfbcpck·May 28, 2021
I’ve been using tewi for almost a decade now:
https://github.com/lucy/tewi-font
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Interesting project, but some of these look a bit... wrong to me. For example, ProFont is my favorite bitmap programming font and the renderer used makes it look bad. Just…
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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4 sourcesI've been using Anonymous Pro as my primary code font for at least 5 years now.
I came to Anonymous Pro through the path of previously using tewi [0]. I was big on the whole linux customization / "ricing" scene in my early years of university, and because of how my desk was set up, i was close enough to my computer to be able to read it. I ran Arch, with tewi, at a 9 point font size. I just liked how it looked.
Eventually my desk setup changed and having such a small font was no longer viable. I went with Anonymous Pro because I found it to be similar, but also easier to read at larger sizes. For a while I coded primarily in vim, so maybe there was something about just setting it once in the terminal config and having what I needed. I also picked it because patched versions existed with powerline symbols, which I was into at the time.
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ow primarily use VS Code on Windows, but I still use Anonymous Pro. I think the narrow strokes and the sharp cruves that you dislike are actually easier for me to read. They give characters a kind of crisp shape, and I find that helpful in distinguishing which characters are which. When I look at the colleciton of fonts, ones like Cascadia, Ubuntu Mono, and especially Nova Mono all look awful to me, because of how rounded they are. I'm also in the crowd of people who dislike ligatures in programming fonts
If I were to pick any of the fonts from this list to try, I would probably pick Hack or Noto Mono for something a bit more robust, or Source Code Pro for something similar to the slenderness of Anonymous Pro. But I think the more important thing is knowing what you like and picking one and settling on it. It surprised me when I went back to my dotfiles and I was looking at screenshots, just how long I've been using the same font. But it makes things easy.
[0] https://github.com/lucy/tewi-font
Here's one to add to your list: https://github.com/lucy/tewi-font
In A collection of text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era PCsInteresting project, but some of these look a bit... wrong to me. For example, ProFont is my favorite bitmap programming font and the renderer used makes it look bad. Just loaded it up in my Terminal.app to show how it /should/ look: [0]. Also while I'm at it, some cool fonts not mentioned that I think deserve some attention are tewi[1] and ProggyTiny[2]. Tewi glyphs are particularly nice [3].
[0]: http://i.imgur.com/3A0HEqu.png
[1]: https://github.com/lucy/tewi-font
[2]: http://www.proggyfonts.net/download/
[3]: https://rbt.asia/boards/g/img/0379/00/1383925217833.png
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