1. Introduction

Some students may have been at home for the holiday, I am also soon. I don’t want to talk about specific technology recently, but talk about something easy after the New Year. But I don’t want to stray too far from programming, so TODAY I’m going to talk about some of the programming fonts that we use. Reading code requires the eyes to move in unusual ways (vertically and horizontally), which is very different from book reading, which usually slides along text in the same direction. So fonts are part of productivity. Here are some of my favorite fonts.

2. Consolas

I had Consolas for a long time, when I was using Eclipse. This is a set of monospaced, sans serif fonts designed by Danish designer Lucas de Groot using Microsoft’s ClearType font smoothing technology. Using Microsoft Windows as the development OS environment feels even more obvious. I don’t use it much anymore.

3. Source Code Pro

After a long time and getting tired, I switched to another font Source Code Pro. It goes like this:

It is an open source and completely free monospaced programming font released by the well-known Adobe company, and you know what it does from the name. Read well on Both MacOS and Windows.

4. Inconsolata

The Inconsolata were copied from colleagues:

I don’t know how it relates to the Consolas, but it’s much more nuanced than the Consolas. The width is exactly half an Angle, with Chinese characters will not be squashed.

5. Fira Code

During the development of MacBook Pro, I fell in love with the following font:

Fira Code is a font provided by Mozilla. It is based on an extension of Fira Mono fonts. The main feature is the inclusion of programming hyphens. If it’s not obvious, here are a few we use:

Isn’t that interesting? You can try it.

6. Droid Sans Mono

This is a font designed for Android, very beautiful, but 0 and O are not distinguishable, this is the biggest defect, I believe that many students will give up it because of this, I hope to create a magic revision in the future.

7. JetBrains Mono

Starting with version 2019.3 of Intellij Idea JetBrains began offering their new Mono fonts designed specifically for developers. I was really impressed, so I’m still using it:

Does JetBrains’ design prowess need another boost?

8. Losevka

This is a font that I’ve just seen that a lot of people admire — Losevka. It is said to be very good with Chinese, don’t worry about alignment problems.

9. To summarize

A thousand Hamlets for a thousand people.

So this may or may not be to the taste of some students, so I also have a black tech website programming font here. You can pick another font that works for you. You can also share your favorite fonts with the public account: Felordcn.

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