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Am I the only one who finds fonts with thin lines unreadable for longer periods of time?

My eyesight is perfect, yet every time I run across one of these I switch fonts or at least zoom in until the line width seemingly doubles.

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This is an unpopular choice, but I have recently switched all my terminals to the Go Fonts[1], and I couldn't be happier. Those who say that only sans-serif fonts belong in a terminal have been lying to me this whole time.

[1] https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts

Hey, I'm another fan of serifs in monospaced fonts! Go Fonts reminds me of the Luxi Mono font I've used for years on RedHat/Fedora machines.

Nowadays I love and only use Iosevka Slab: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka (3rd and 4th panel in the topmost screenshot)

Not sure if it's my browser, but the dashes in the example are rendered with anti-aliasing below them. That is going to suck after a while, a dash should only have on-off pixels, nothing inbetween.

Nothing wrong with serifs, except that typical monitors are too low resolution to do a good job with them. The sample you linked for example doesn't look good to me.

My Chromebook is about 150 DPI and it makes a world of difference compared to the typical 100 DPI desktop monitor.

I dislike monospace because by definition it has kerning problems. However, alignment problems are usually worse so I still use them in my terminals.

Monospace-serifs are interesting. They seem to ease the kerning problems. I just switch my terminal font from Inconsolata to Gofont Mono. Let's see in a few days how happy I am with it.

Thanks for the hint.

I have spent countless hours searching for the perfect programming font, and once I found Go Mono, I never went back.

It’s because of astigmatism which all people have, to a degree, meaning you have a different focal point for horizontal and vertical lines.

I also much prefer large text, even though my vision is pretty good.

Same here. I need a bit of thickness. Not necessarily bold, but meat on the pixel bones.

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