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Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code (monaspace.githubnext.com)

submitted 10 months ago by GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 67 points 10 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] zettajon@lemdro.id 41 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Try Fira Code font

[–] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] drudoo@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

You just made my day. Thank you.

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] regbin_@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months 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.

[–] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I need to get out more.

[–] crank@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I'm an Envy Code R fan myself.

[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] red@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] crank@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months 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.