Modern Font Requirements

Of course you can. Instead of committing the code to a repository, you just take screenshots of the everything and commit that instead.

You can if you paste it into a write protected pdf

Many editors can read config files from a file in the repository itself. And oftentimes it has the highest priority. Just gotta know the IDE of your target and they have to click "trust this project".

Comic mono

https://www.codingfont.com/ is a fun, tournament style quiz that compares different monospace fonts. It's far from comprehensive, but I found it useful to gauge what font features I find stylish and readable

(For the record, my go-to font is Jetbrains Mono)

I picked up a great little test along the way: type the word ill or illegal followed by 100, using a capital I in illegal and mixing an upper case O and a zero in the number.

Ill10O

Can you clearly tell all these characters apart in your editor font?

I am all about Fira Code, myself

I guess it depends on your preference but I love Fira Code

Try JetBrains Mono.

Fira Code is my go-to.

Verdana.

The I/l and O/o/0, 0/8/ø are all distinct, so are all the different kinds of brackets. Also, this isn't a monospace font, so wide letters such as m and w are wide, instead of being squashed into an unreadable barcode.

Letters aren't meant to be monospace, and sans TUI nothing in computers still needs to be.

If you do need one, ex. for TUI, I second JetBrains Mono!

Also, Verdana is not a libre font, Noto Sans is a libre font that also has these properties, although code does look much better in Verdana to me.

Look up a good article on coding fonts and pick your camp! At the moment I have DejaVu installed but I'm not a purist. As long as it's properly designed for this I'm happy. Ligatures are particularly nifty in some languages but no big deal. I recall one author picking a font so that the italics would be cursive rather than monospace, so that his comments would look like handwritten notes in the margin, but I never got a chance to try it myself. Looked great though!

I'm a big fan of GoHuFont

Big fan of jetbrains mono.

My favorite is "Inconsolata"

I've really enjoyed Monaspace as well as using Inter for my interfaces. Maybe you will too? :)

It's a bit vanilla but I like DejaVu Sans Mono 8pt in my terminal, which is where I edit scripts and things

Curiously, I don't think that looks quite as good at larger sizes, so I've been using Liberation Mono 9pt or 10pt elsewhere.

Both of those have distinct glyphs for the usual easily confused candidates. Can't be having my lowercase L's and 1s looking similar.

i always use the classic 6x13 or 8x16 font

Hermit

I just use IBM Plex, but that's mostly because the keycaps my keyboard came with used it :) I also think it's just fine for readability (i.e. I/l and O/0 are different enough)

In this case it's because part of the joke is the quote tweet. You could also link to the tweet instead of a screenshot but then we need to connect to Musk's servers at some point (even if through a proxy like nitter)

Cause I reposted stole it from some other internet page

I just usually download the image than a screenshot when posting

So IDE with syntax highlights? Those blocks things are also pretty much shown in most IDE, what do you use to code?

I even have prettifying turned on so the keywords like in, lambda, etc are prettified.

Oh hey, someone else who uses Comic Code - greetings!

I remember when I first saw it, I laughed - and then it grew on me. Then it turned into "I can't believe I am buying a derivation of comic sans" but it is actually a really nice monospaced font.

Only thing I didn't like was having to figure out how to use Font Patcher to make a copy of it that supports nerd fonts, but it was a one and done process.

(I also don't really like how it looks in my IDE the few times I find myself on Windows, but I don't really blame the font for that one - looks perfect in the same IDE on Linux...)

shanns

I'm just wondering how this happened