I like looking at programmers’ fonts. Every time I see one announced or mentioned that I didn’t know about, I have to take a look. It’s rather odd, then, that I’ve been using the Inconsolata font since before I became an Emacs user: probably for about 20 years. I originally switched to it because it was an antialiased font and looked much better than the default font on the xterm I was using at the time.
If you also enjoy a bit of programmer font porn, there are a couple of sites you can check out. The first, Coding Fonts, has a collection of 32 fonts for you to browse and enjoy. It has several ways of displaying the fonts:
- The set of character
- In some HTML
- In some CSS
- In some JavaScript
The second site, Dev Fonts, lists 30 fonts that can displayed in a number of languages and themes. There’s only a little overlap with the Coding Fonts site so it’s worth taking a look at both sites.
If you’re on the lookout for a new coding font or just enjoy looking at and comparing them, these two sites are definitely worth spending some time on. Both sites have links to the font themselves so if you like one, it’s easy to get it.