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Hah, good one! I personally use Ubuntu Mono as my programming font, I've yet to find any font I prefer to spend hours a day staring at.

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Yeah that one mono font quiz[0] always ends up recommending it to me

[0] https://www.codingfont.com/

Very handy utility! My foray steers me to Source Code Pro.

Cool tool, didn't know about this. Thank you!

I recommend to hide the font names to prevent any bias.

It's missing Iosevka which I use daily since its first release. Maybe it's because it has so many variations.

I used Ubuntu Mono for awhile, but I'm now a fan of both Cascadia Code/Mono (depending on if you want ligatures) and SF Mono, although the latter is a pain to install on non-macOS systems because you have to unpack the .dmg file and the underlying .pkg files.

+1 for Cascadia Code, and especially for the ligatures.

May I recommend Berkeley Mono (https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/). It's a paid font but well worth it, given you're spending hours every day looking at it. I have found it to be excellent for the shell and editors.

I really like that font, but that price ($75) is really untenable for me. Is there any alternative?

Input Mono [1] is beautiful, and kinda looks like Berkeley Mono. It too is paid for commercial use, but it's free for personal.

I used Input for a very long time until I made my own blend of Iosevka [2] that looks very similar—just with more exotic symbols.

[1]: https://input.djr.com/ [2]: https://sr.ht/~ashton314/iosevka-output/

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