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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 69 points 1 year ago

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

[-] zettajon@lemdro.id 44 points 1 year ago
[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] drudoo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

You just made my day. Thank you.

[-] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] regbin_@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 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.

[-] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm an Envy Code R fan myself.

[-] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 1 year ago

Damn, I need to get out more.

[-] crank@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I was also like that until I discovered ligatures were thing.

[-] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] red@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] crank@beehaw.org 1 points 11 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.

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