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The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (8 children)

People actually change fonts in their IDE? I've always used whatever the default is and never even thought about it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm a big fan of Fira Code! I haven't found any others I like more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Love Fira Code but recently switched to https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ and it’s equally great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You just made my day. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I actually have. I didn't install it in an IDE, though. This font comes with popOS

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always do. I'm a fan of JetBrains Mono.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It is the default font. At least in all the JetBrains IDE

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

What makes this unique is that they're saying this allows for different fonts in the same piece of code. So you could have comments in one font, your code in another, AI written code in another, etc. Looks like all the fonts are the same size, so everything still aligns nicely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm an Envy Code R fan myself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

some people even change default system fonts used in the deskop environment (menu's, filemanager etc) 😎😁

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, I need to get out more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Actually you have to stay in more to get into this sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've always preferred IBM's Plex Mono, specifically the Nerd Fonts version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can't stand Jetbrains default font. The height of the letters is too large

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh man fonts for coding are such a huge thing. There are people making their own forks of so they have certain glyphs, or a line through the zero (or vice versa) or little changes to other specific chars.