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Same. It's the best of the ones I've seen, though definitely not without its flaws. I use it in Emacs, though I haven't taken the time to change my terminal emulator (WezTerm) to it from its default Jetbrains Mono (which I've always considered to be basically the same font as Fira Code, just now with an awful CoC attached)
Intel Mono One was a game changer for me, with those BEEFY curly brackets. I don't EVER want to spend more than a milisecond wondering if it's a parentheses or braces. But I'm afan of everything Github is doing these days so I'm going to give it a try
I've been using Recursive Mono Linear/Semicasual lately, after years on Fira Code; it's a fun and consistent font. The Argon variant in this video looks great though-def giving it a whirl!
I was a Jetbrains Mono guy, but then switched[0] to Fira Code, as they always seemed like basically the same thing to me and better than the other the fonts I tried, with the features I actually want (especially ligatures - I really like ligatures for some common combinations of characters). It seems like just, the gold standard - it has no major flaws, it looks overall right and normal without much weirdness, and I can always default to it. Still not perfect though... the clarity is not the best and some of the stylistic parts of individual glyphs I'm personally not the greatest fan of[1], but it seems to be better than pretty much anything else I've seen. The Arch Linux LiveCD had a really nice font in it at some point, but I'm not sure what font it was, nor if it has support for ligatures as I'd need to daily drive it. Don't think I've tried the Recursive family. The website's cool, but sadly doesn't seem to let me view even just normal (e.g. -> and !=) ligatures for some reason, let alone have actual cursive monospaced words (as in the characters linking together as they're supposed to in cursive, not just being stand-alone cursive characters that look weird for it), which I want and think could be nice if done correctly but doesn't really seem to be a thing. [0]: I switched because I went to setup jetbrains mono on a new machine and saw that the repo got an extremely bad code of conduct, which while alone a reason to try to boycott the project, combined with my already wishing to have nothing to do with jetbrains if possible, and there not being any extremely compelling technical reasons to stick with it for the time being (as is the case for the Rust programming language, for example), I switched ASAP [1] I prefer 'b' to have a taller line and shorter and less oval-shaped and more left & right symmetrical circle part. I prefer 'g' to have the hook come out of the right and be more like a line + semicircle. I don't like the curly brackets so much, prefer them more like jetbrain mono's I guess. If I was being picky, I'd say I want the curve of parentheses especially around the center to be more regular. I'd prefer the sideways bar of 'f' to be lower, and it length-wise being more in line with the hook on top. I'd want 'e' to have the line slightly lower. 'm' looks kinda cramped with the skinny lines and I kinda don't like the top so much, though it seems somewhat due to the intrinsic limitation of monospaced fonts. 'P' has too wide of a curve - it sticks out too far to the right. The line of 'q' is somewhat unsatisfactory. 'E', peering closely at it, seems to have the middle line slightly higher than the center, which will now kinda bug me ugh. '9' is kinda low, and I could go on and on about how stuff is slightly less than perfect, but what's the point
I always end up coming back to Source Code Pro. It just has such much character while still being extremely readable for me on both HiDPI and LoDPI monitors.
Totally liked Krypton font. It's brutal and straight, probably gonna use it for work. Would be actually great if they export this font to NerdFont so it can be used in terminal properly.
@@VSurya-vt4nd yeah, I explored the topic, it's actually pretty easy to do with the patcher. However, I saw the PR on NerdFont repo, so they're adding Monaspace officially
I keep hearing "what theme and font do you use" as a supper club question and I, like many of the "smart people" just used the default font and a dark theme i learned about in a tutorial. After watching this video, I spent an hour figuring out how to customize the font in vs code and my theme a bit. Maybe I should just stick to the podcast since there's a world where this video made me a worse developer 😂 Keep up the great work!
@@syntaxfmIt's just the minecraft font but a .ttf. Might not work for anybody, but for me it does. I think the blocky letters look especially nice in vscode file explorer
So why did Github release a font? Is this just something they will (or have) switched to everywhere? Also is everyone going to release a font? Vercel launched too a few days ago, isn't it? Is Syntax launching their own font? :D
Diehard Consolas fan 🙌 CodeNewRoman Nerd Font for terminal and sometimes semi-bold Noto Sans Mono for non-4k displays. This is an interesting collection, will play with it a bit.
I'm currently using JetBrains Mono, while my usual choice is Fira Mono (not Fira Code, to be clear). I haven't heard about this family of fonts until now, I might try it.
The texture healing makes it look worse IMO... I'm using Fira Code, after transitioning away from its near-identical sibling, Jetbrains Mono, after they forced an awful code of conduct onto the repo. For the same reason, I won't use the font featured in the video, as it has an absolutely awful code of conduct as well. And making a new font and naming it "monaspace" is both confusing (and likely to lead to e.g. search engines auto-correcting it to "monospace"), and even arrogant
I honestly am surprised how much some developers care about this. And their customized keyboards, lamps, monitor stands, etc. I just don't get it. I learned to code on oldest PCs imaginable, staring at a MS-DOS terminal. I honestly don't even know what font my IDE uses, because then I see the same code in 10 different places, during code reviews, builds, stacktraces in kibana, etc. Like it doesn't really matter what type of font I'll set in my IDE, there's plenty of places that use a different font, so it's not even something I would want to notice. If so happens that I get annoyed by someone else's font, it takes literally less than a minute to get used to it. So why are some people so obsessed with customization? To me it seems like you don't have big enough challenges on your hands if you're worried about a font :D
Seriously? You don't love to setup a nice font / environment? I get it, some people overstate their importance, especially those mac people, who I am not. Still, a good font/ env can go a long way. Distinct font styles have their own character. I learned to code on an Amstrad 464, with its typewriter style terminal yellow fonts on blue background, though at the time, the ZX Spectrum of my friend had the best fonts, best spacing, and look and feel, with its sleek black fonts on tinted white background. The memories...🙂
@@StupidusMaximusTheFirsthonestly I don't. I just forget about the font, the background, rgb's and all the other nonsense. I remember once configuring my intellij with some color scheme. Then I've switched to a newer laptop, then I started working remotely and switched to desktop, then switched to different IDE, then use Intellij again, plus all the other tools and all using system monospace font or their own font of choice. It's like a neverending crusade to have everything configured and aligned, and by the time you have it all something happens and you start from scratch. So since then it always seemed like wasted effort. But I get some people like to customize. I just think they have too much time on their hands. Like 8hrs a day for coding is not nearly enough for what I want to achieve/learn/deliver. Stopped chasing rabbits, focusing on work.
It's just improved ergonomics. Same reason we're using large high-definition screens and a modern editor/ide instead of EDIT on a 14 inch CRT. I first learned on qbasic and have some nostalgia for those days but there's no denying how much of it is archaic by today's standards.
lower case L looks like number 1. I don't think I am ever going to use it.
Very interesting and super innovative. That said, no slashed zero, no dice for me.
I'm using Jetbrains Mono for coding and Victor Mono for terminal work, but Monaspace is looking good, might test it out later.
same with coding font, but I've never been able to find a more suitable font among them for this than Jetbrains Mono.
cascadia code is pretty good too@@paprikar
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I wish they had a condensed version. I like Iosevka because it's nice and condensed and makes long lines in code (like in Java or C#) very digestable.
Iosevka Gang
Looks good but I'm happy with Fira Code NerdFont with ligatures.
Same. It's the best of the ones I've seen, though definitely not without its flaws. I use it in Emacs, though I haven't taken the time to change my terminal emulator (WezTerm) to it from its default Jetbrains Mono (which I've always considered to be basically the same font as Fira Code, just now with an awful CoC attached)
wingdings for life
Intel Mono One was a game changer for me, with those BEEFY curly brackets. I don't EVER want to spend more than a milisecond wondering if it's a parentheses or braces.
But I'm afan of everything Github is doing these days so I'm going to give it a try
I've been using Recursive Mono Linear/Semicasual lately, after years on Fira Code; it's a fun and consistent font. The Argon variant in this video looks great though-def giving it a whirl!
I was a Jetbrains Mono guy, but then switched[0] to Fira Code, as they always seemed like basically the same thing to me and better than the other the fonts I tried, with the features I actually want (especially ligatures - I really like ligatures for some common combinations of characters). It seems like just, the gold standard - it has no major flaws, it looks overall right and normal without much weirdness, and I can always default to it. Still not perfect though... the clarity is not the best and some of the stylistic parts of individual glyphs I'm personally not the greatest fan of[1], but it seems to be better than pretty much anything else I've seen. The Arch Linux LiveCD had a really nice font in it at some point, but I'm not sure what font it was, nor if it has support for ligatures as I'd need to daily drive it. Don't think I've tried the Recursive family. The website's cool, but sadly doesn't seem to let me view even just normal (e.g. -> and !=) ligatures for some reason, let alone have actual cursive monospaced words (as in the characters linking together as they're supposed to in cursive, not just being stand-alone cursive characters that look weird for it), which I want and think could be nice if done correctly but doesn't really seem to be a thing.
[0]: I switched because I went to setup jetbrains mono on a new machine and saw that the repo got an extremely bad code of conduct, which while alone a reason to try to boycott the project, combined with my already wishing to have nothing to do with jetbrains if possible, and there not being any extremely compelling technical reasons to stick with it for the time being (as is the case for the Rust programming language, for example), I switched ASAP
[1] I prefer 'b' to have a taller line and shorter and less oval-shaped and more left & right symmetrical circle part. I prefer 'g' to have the hook come out of the right and be more like a line + semicircle. I don't like the curly brackets so much, prefer them more like jetbrain mono's I guess. If I was being picky, I'd say I want the curve of parentheses especially around the center to be more regular. I'd prefer the sideways bar of 'f' to be lower, and it length-wise being more in line with the hook on top. I'd want 'e' to have the line slightly lower. 'm' looks kinda cramped with the skinny lines and I kinda don't like the top so much, though it seems somewhat due to the intrinsic limitation of monospaced fonts. 'P' has too wide of a curve - it sticks out too far to the right. The line of 'q' is somewhat unsatisfactory. 'E', peering closely at it, seems to have the middle line slightly higher than the center, which will now kinda bug me ugh. '9' is kinda low, and I could go on and on about how stuff is slightly less than perfect, but what's the point
I always end up coming back to Source Code Pro. It just has such much character while still being extremely readable for me on both HiDPI and LoDPI monitors.
"Now you can choose a font based on its characteristics!"
"...I could already do that."
Super cool. Always looking for new fonts!
Totally liked Krypton font. It's brutal and straight, probably gonna use it for work. Would be actually great if they export this font to NerdFont so it can be used in terminal properly.
Patching a nerd font is pretty easy though and you can do it yourself.
@@VSurya-vt4nd yeah, I explored the topic, it's actually pretty easy to do with the patcher. However, I saw the PR on NerdFont repo, so they're adding Monaspace officially
I think Krypton might be my favorite as well.
Nice 👍🏼 looking forward to more Syntax videos ❤
Glad to hear it, can't wait to share more.
A beautiful font family.... if only it had a slashed zero :(
JetBrains Mono 4ever
Texture healing increase the demand for terminal emulators to support ligatures, interesting.
I keep hearing "what theme and font do you use" as a supper club question and I, like many of the "smart people" just used the default font and a dark theme i learned about in a tutorial. After watching this video, I spent an hour figuring out how to customize the font in vs code and my theme a bit.
Maybe I should just stick to the podcast since there's a world where this video made me a worse developer 😂
Keep up the great work!
😂 yeah working all day on the tools and not the craft.
am i stupid or can i genuinely not feel any difference with source code pro, fire code, jetbrains mono, monolisa, monaspace etc etc
I use Monocraft for both code and terminal. The best one out there imo
I haven't seen Monocraft yet. Will check it out.
@@syntaxfmIt's just the minecraft font but a .ttf. Might not work for anybody, but for me it does. I think the blocky letters look especially nice in vscode file explorer
I was using Iosevka, but y'know what? I'm now trying out Monaspace Neon, with Radon for comments (in its non-italic form; I didn't like its slant).
Call me crazy but I've never been able to change the font of *just* the comments. How do you do that?
So why did Github release a font? Is this just something they will (or have) switched to everywhere?
Also is everyone going to release a font? Vercel launched too a few days ago, isn't it?
Is Syntax launching their own font? :D
Does seem odd that both Vercel and GitHub did these back to back although the GH one is more interesting given its variety
Is it monospace cursive like Victor Mono? I prefer coding fonts that mix mono and cursive
rec mono casual is where its at
To me personally Operator Mono is ❤
It has it's short comings but nothing a patch couldn't fix (literally)
Using Droid Sans Mono, because it just works.
I currently use Dank Mono, but I will probably give a try to Monaspace soon
Diehard Consolas fan 🙌 CodeNewRoman Nerd Font for terminal and sometimes semi-bold Noto Sans Mono for non-4k displays. This is an interesting collection, will play with it a bit.
I feel like because there is so many options here, you might need to tweak it to get it right.
I'm using a monospace version of comic sans for my coding needs.
I don't think I'll ever leave Fira Code.
Respectfully I'm using JetBrains Mono and not changing but it's very pretty.
makie it moanspace and i'll consider
Moanspace with ligatures might be dangerous.
Wes Bos Fans always uses Operator Mono ✨
FiraCode bast!
Love Fira
i mean, github has now 2 coding fonts
cascadia code & monaspace
Monolisa is always best 💥
Yo I loved this font as displayed on the website but my vsc displays it differently. Much wider and faint. I couldn't make it work
which dialect is that where you call a font a "faaaant" ? ;)
should have had one font wich inspired by Terminus
I'm currently using JetBrains Mono, while my usual choice is Fira Mono (not Fira Code, to be clear).
I haven't heard about this family of fonts until now, I might try it.
Looks like they just ripped off Commit Mono
Sorry I'm gonna keep using Comic Mono
🤔
Although there're 5 variants I just don't find any of them good-looking.
Ye nah, I’m a SF Mono kind of guy. And I hate zero that uses dot inside.
I'm learning a lot about who likes zeros with slashes, dots or nothing. Def something a lot of people care about.
The texture healing makes it look worse IMO...
I'm using Fira Code, after transitioning away from its near-identical sibling, Jetbrains Mono, after they forced an awful code of conduct onto the repo. For the same reason, I won't use the font featured in the video, as it has an absolutely awful code of conduct as well. And making a new font and naming it "monaspace" is both confusing (and likely to lead to e.g. search engines auto-correcting it to "monospace"), and even arrogant
I dont like the dollar sign
Nit nearly as nice to read as MonoLisa
Dotted zero is insta fail for me. Sorry.
Looking at the wrong camera king
It’s the “podcast” angle. All the cool kids are doing it these days. For real tho I should have used my front cam.
I honestly am surprised how much some developers care about this. And their customized keyboards, lamps, monitor stands, etc.
I just don't get it. I learned to code on oldest PCs imaginable, staring at a MS-DOS terminal. I honestly don't even know what font my IDE uses, because then I see the same code in 10 different places, during code reviews, builds, stacktraces in kibana, etc. Like it doesn't really matter what type of font I'll set in my IDE, there's plenty of places that use a different font, so it's not even something I would want to notice. If so happens that I get annoyed by someone else's font, it takes literally less than a minute to get used to it. So why are some people so obsessed with customization? To me it seems like you don't have big enough challenges on your hands if you're worried about a font :D
Seriously? You don't love to setup a nice font / environment? I get it, some people overstate their importance, especially those mac people, who I am not. Still, a good font/ env can go a long way. Distinct font styles have their own character. I learned to code on an Amstrad 464, with its typewriter style terminal yellow fonts on blue background, though at the time, the ZX Spectrum of my friend had the best fonts, best spacing, and look and feel, with its sleek black fonts on tinted white background. The memories...🙂
@@StupidusMaximusTheFirsthonestly I don't. I just forget about the font, the background, rgb's and all the other nonsense. I remember once configuring my intellij with some color scheme. Then I've switched to a newer laptop, then I started working remotely and switched to desktop, then switched to different IDE, then use Intellij again, plus all the other tools and all using system monospace font or their own font of choice. It's like a neverending crusade to have everything configured and aligned, and by the time you have it all something happens and you start from scratch.
So since then it always seemed like wasted effort.
But I get some people like to customize. I just think they have too much time on their hands. Like 8hrs a day for coding is not nearly enough for what I want to achieve/learn/deliver. Stopped chasing rabbits, focusing on work.
i like changing a font or a theme every now and then, like maybe once in half a year, just to make things feel a little bit fresh.
It's just improved ergonomics. Same reason we're using large high-definition screens and a modern editor/ide instead of EDIT on a 14 inch CRT. I first learned on qbasic and have some nostalgia for those days but there's no denying how much of it is archaic by today's standards.
Updating my font is easier than updating my code 😉
CodeNewRoman Nerd Font Mono
how a i do add to my vs??