Fonts comparison
You MUST have these fonts installed on YOUR machine to see what they look like
Click on a font name to get more info.
As a developper, take care to fonts using ligatures
- Yes, fancy (the first days ...)
- The ligatures are not the same in all fonts supporting ligatures
- You might be surprised by some pieces of code, regular expression, ascii art in comments...
- Do the coder, peer-rewiever and readers see the same thing?
References
- List of
monospaced
fonts on Wikipedia
- List of monospaced fonts maintained by Google:
front-end
back-end (Classement par licences: "apache" "ofl" "ufl")
- List of all fonts shipped with
Windows
since Windows 7
How to install a font (windows)
- Unzip all the .ttf files in one temporary directory.
- Select all these .ttf files (Ctrl-A)
- Right click and select option "Install" -- This will install the font only for the current user.
OR
Right click, select 'Show more options' and select "Install for all users" -- In this case Administrator privileges are required.
- After installation you can delete the temporary directory
Notes
- Fonts, like softwares, have versions and receive updates.
- The 'IBM Plex mono' is a subset of the 'IBM Plex Sans' font familly. You can find all the fonts
here
- 'JuliaMono' provides some ligatures
- 'Cascadia Code' provides 114 ligatures
- 'JetBrains Mono' include 142 ligatures (This is far too much)
- 'JetBrains Mono NL' NL means No Ligature.
- Usually, the 0 is with a dot, not a slash, to avoid confusion with ø and Ø used in Scandinavian languages.