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)
Even More Fonts
Interesting Web Fonts
font-family: "roca","Georgia Roca Fallback","Iowan Old Style","Palatino Linotype","URW Palladio L",P052,serif;
- “roca”
- “Georgia Roca Fallback”
- “Iowan Old Style”
- “Palatino Linotype”
- “URW Palladio L”
- P052
- serif
Found more cool fonts (from Alexey Guzey’s site)
- Special Elite is a good looking typewriter font
- Encode Sans is a new favorite
History
- Adobe Courier – Mid-1950s (circa 1955–56), Designed by Howard “Bud” Kettler – Wikipedia
- American Typewriter – 1974, Designed by Joel Kaden & Tony Stan – Wikipedia
- Berkeley Mono – 2022, Designed by Neil Pachal – Official site
- Bitstream Vera Sans Mono – 2003, Designed by Jim Lyles – Wikipedia
- Century Schoolbook – (Creation year not yet retrieved), Designed by Morris Fuller Benton (early 20th century) – Wikipedia
- Code Page 437 / CP437 – (Not a designer-created font; a DOS-era character encoding set with matching glyphs) – Wikipedia
- Consolas – (Creation year ~2005–2006), Designed by Lucas de Groot – Microsoft Docs | Wikipedia
- Courier (same as Adobe Courier above) – Wikipedia
- Cousine – (Details to be looked up; a modern open-design font inspired by Courier) – Google Fonts
- Futura – 1927, Designed by Paul Renner – Wikipedia
- FixederSys 2x – (Created by tom7; year not readily found—further lookup needed) – link TBD
- FixedSys – (Bitmapped font from early Microsoft/Windows origins; designer not well documented) – Wikipedia
- GlassTTY – 2009, Designed by Viacheslav Slavinsky – link TBD
- Inconsolata – 2006, Designed by Raph Levien – Wikipedia
- JetBrains Mono – 2020, Designed by Typetogether for JetBrains – Official site | Wikipedia
- Lucida Grande – circa 1985, Designed by Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes – Wikipedia
- Menlo – 2009, Designed by Jim Lyles (inspired by Bitstream Vera / DejaVu) – Wikipedia
- Monaco – 1983–84, Designed by Susan Kare, Kris Holmes, and Charles Bigelow – Wikipedia
- monoOne – (An embedded monospace font; details scarce—needs lookup) – link TBD
- Nouveau_IBM – (Used in DosBox-X; likely a modern recreation; details to lookup) – link TBD
- Palatino – 1949, Designed by Hermann Zapf – Wikipedia
- ProFontX – (A bitmap/monospaced font; details scarce—needs lookup) – link TBD
- SarasaGothicFixed – (A TrueType fixed-width variant of Sarasa Gothic; details to lookup) – GitHub
- Source Code Pro – 2012, Designed by Paul D. Hunt for Adobe – Official site | Wikipedia
- X11 core fonts – Misc Fixed – (A catch-all for X11 “Misc Fixed” category; not a specific designer font) – X.Org: Core Fonts