Over the years I’ve experimented with many fonts for writing and coding. My current favorite font is Berkeley Mono – I generally love the design philosophy of the team behind this typeface – focus on reading and writing reminiscent of the golden era of computing - the early days of UNIX. Other fonts I use or have used:
- 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)
I must say – Russ and Rob inspire me to a degree to try ACME (launch it with
-f /mnt/font/LucidaGrande/13a/font -F /mnt/font/SourceCodePro-Regular/13a/font
) and go savage-mode like this.