Over the years we have experimented with many fonts for writing and coding. Our current favorite font is Berkeley Mono. We generally approve of and love the design philosophy of the team behind this typeface – focused on reading and writing reminiscent of the golden era of computing, the early days of UNIX.
Other fonts we like and use:
- Consolas (from Microsoft) – the default monospaced font in Windows.
- Menlo (Apple) – From Wikipedia: Menlo is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Jim Lyles and Charles Bigelow in 1997. The typeface was first shipped with Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
- Monaco (Apple) – the default monospace font currently shipping with macOS
- Inconsolata – designed by Raph Levien in 2006.
- GlassTTY – a TrueType VT220 font reminiscent of a CRT terminal.
- JetBrains mono is great
- SourceCode Pro
- Liberation Mono (Monospaced on my favorite distro)
- and last but not least - Lucide Grande (used by Rob Pike and Russ Cox in the ACME editor)
- (ok how about Code Page 437 / CP37? See More Perfect DOS VGA)
Russ Cox and Rob Pike have inspired us to try ACME
- launch
acmewith options:-f /mnt/font/LucidaGrande/13a/font -F /mnt/font/SourceCodePro-Regular/13a/font - here is Russ Cox using it
Even More Fonts We Love
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American Typewriter (
-light-normal-condensed-*-18-*-*-*-p-0-iso10646-1)
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Programming Typefaces
These are fonts we have at some point used in Emacs:
- Adobe Courier
- American Typewriter
- Berkeley Mono
- Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
- Cousine
- FixedSys
- FixederSys 2x
- Menlo
- X11 core fonts - Misc Fixed
- Monaco
- monoOne
- ProFontX
- Source Code Pro
- Nouveau_IBM (a TTF used in DosBox-X)
- SarasaGothicFixed (a TTF used in DosBox-X)