JOjoch·Mar 31, 2026
I go for the Iosevka Nerd Font Mono these days to get the nice icons everywhere.
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
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Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more
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There are a lot of code fonts on HN today. Rather than make a new post I will talk about some of my favorite that are a little less common. None of these are free I don't…
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32 sourcesSure, I'll add it in. I'll post the links here as well just in case:
https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible-next-mo...
I'd recommend getting it from there rather than the Braille Institute's website since they require an email and EULA, but here's the other download link anyway.
https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
Also, Nerd Fonts added Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono in their v3.4.0 release.
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.4.0
With Nerd Fonts, I'd recommend downloading both and setting up a fallback system through fontconfig though. Unfortunately, some versions (Nerd Fonts, official download) are still missing the backtick/grave glyph.
https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible-next-mo...
In Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira CodeNerd Fonts – Iconic font aggregator, collection, and patcher
2 points · Open discussionBerkeley Mono is also my favourite font. I use it in the terminal, editor and for my IDE.
It's a bit expensive, and I can understand if someone can't or doesn't want to spend money on it. I would recommend to check out the free fonts 'JetBrains Mono' & 'Hack' to these people.
Some people have already mentioned here that Berkeley Mono is not available as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher).
In Berkeley Mono TypefaceThere are a lot of code fonts on HN today. Rather than make a new post I will talk about some of my favorite that are a little less common. None of these are free I don't think.
Cartograph CF - The one I've been using for code for years. Very readable, almost "comic mono"-like choices of some of the lower case glyphs but in a good way. All the character is in the italic which you will either love or hate.
Quadraat sans mono - The entire quadraat family is a collection of masterpieces imo, but are generally too distinctive to be appropriate for most public-facing work. But it's your computer so who cares. I use the mono sans one for my terminal. The lowercase f seems so out of place there but you learn to love it.
Alegreya sans - Not a mono font, but it almost is so if you've ever flirted with proportional fonts for code this is a fun one
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to try. There is a lot of careful line width variation that gives a lot of the appearance and readability advantages of serifs but keeps most of the visual coherence of sans.
I like all of these because they feel more like normal fonts rather than code fonts. They have careful variation that adds character and improves readability for me. I've switched to an almost-no-color code theme that uses font weight instead, and the details like this become more important that way.
And then only kind of related but if you want to use unusual fonts in your terminal but you have a complex prompt setup, install font forge and learn to use something like https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/font-pat... to patch in the extra characters. This can also solve your "I love this font but want a dotted zero" type problems as well. Small skill investment for a small return over a long period of time. You'll always be using fonts.
I’ve been using fonts with ligatures for esoteric languages like CSS and HTML for years. ;-)
Seriously, fonts that coders tend to use have included ligatures for quite a few years. For me, it’s less visual noise and a cleaner look.
I use Vim/Neovim and WezTerm but there are many combinations of editors and terminal emulators that support ligatures.
And many programmers fonts:
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
In Show HN: ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable softwareYou can patch them in yourself, it's pretty easy with just a CLI command: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher
In The Oldschool PC Font Pack (v2.2)My favourite font.
I love the crossed 7, and the dashed 0.
I usually patch in a few things for terminal use via the python scripts for NerdFonts[0].
Would be nice to see a few of the progress bars[1] and advanced Fira Code characters possibly down the road.
I’ve gotten used to not using ligatures since switching to Berkeley Mono, not sure if I’ll choose to go back. Bit of a contentious topic I suppose.
[0]: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#option-8-patch-your-...
[1]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/extras/progre...
In Berkeley Mono v1.008 ReleasedI've tried a lot of different monospaced fonts, but I've settled on these 3:
IDE:
• Cascadia Mono - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/cascadia-c...
• CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font (as a fallback) - https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
Terminal:
• Hack Nerd Font - https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
In Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?I use the "Sauce Code Pro" variant which includes a bunch of glyphs: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
In Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?Also available as a Nerd Font!
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
In IBM Plex Typeface (2018)At some point in grad school a few years ago, I was procrastinating furiously and did a deep dive into the font I would prefer for coding, terminal, etc. I ultimately landed on Meslo LGS with Nerd Font after also looking at different shells. I'm not a fan of ligature so don't care about those fonts
Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing out on something better or if just the Meslo people came out with something great and haven't felt the need to promote it on the web in a few years since they are all gainfully employed.
https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
In JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developersSame. I added nerd fonts and ligatures to the version I use.
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer
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