Monospace Programming Fonts

Users recommend and compare their favorite monospaced fonts for coding and terminals, such as JetBrains Mono, IBM Plex Mono, Inconsolata, and Iosevka, emphasizing readability, distinct characters, and aesthetics.

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voidUpdate Aug 12, 2024 View on HN

Personally, for a monospaced font, I prefer Jetbrains Mono. It's free and looks nice to me

ayoisaiah Jan 21, 2019 View on HN

I've been using IBM Plex Mono¹ for the last couple of weeks. Switched from Source Code Pro, and I love it![1]: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Mono

Xavdidtheshadow Nov 20, 2020 View on HN

I've been a happy Inconsolata user for years. It looks great, characters are unique, and it stays out of the way.https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

I like Consolas. It's monospaced and designed for programming.

mikewhy Jan 12, 2019 View on HN

I love this font for programming. Topped only by SF Mono, IMO.

dfranke Oct 31, 2007 View on HN

I prefer Terminus or DejaVu Sans Mono.

approxim8ion Nov 3, 2020 View on HN

JetBrains Mono as my system and terminal font. It's very easy on the eyes.

alexeiz Oct 21, 2019 View on HN

Iosevka rocks. Regular, narrow width, nice looking both on low dpi and high dpi screens. It's the best for writing code IMO.

skemper911 Jan 12, 2019 View on HN

Inconsolata ticks all the boxes for mehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata

paxys Jul 28, 2021 View on HN

No love for Droid Sans Mono? It is the perfect programming font for me (well, the slashed zero variant).