I felt in love with VIM after tried Emacs, GEdit, NetBean, Eclipse … but the next step to choose a good font that takes too much time than I expected.
I’m using VIM as my default code editor, thankfully, I don’t take too much time to pick it. What’s best text editor (IDE)? What’s best programming font? What’s best code color scheme? I got them like you and I spent more than 1 years to choose and using Monaco as programing font but I’m still looking for better programing font than Monaco It was updated in in October 2016 to add Hack.Are you a programmer? If yes, you had 3 questions with coding tools. This post was originally published in October 2015.
You can install the font files directly from the Hack github. Hack is not in the official Fedora repos yet, but is being worked on. Hack works best in the 8px to 12px range on regular DPI monitors, and as low as 6px on higher DPI monitors. Hack is hand groomed and optically balanced to be a workhorse face for code.” Hack builds on the monospaced versions in the Bitstream Vera and DejaVu font families, modifying and enhancing glyph coverage, shapes and spacing. $ sudo dnf install dejavu-sans-mono-fonts Hack
To install DejaVu Sans Mono, search for it in the Software application in Fedora Workstation, or install the dejavu-sans-mono-fonts package using DNF or yum on the command line. $ sudo dnf install google-droid-sans-mono-fonts DejaVu Sans Mono To install Droid Sans Mono, search for it in the Software application in Fedora Workstation, or install the google-droid-sans-mono-fonts package using DNF or yum on the command line. There is also versions of Droid Sans Mono available on a 3rd party website that add a dotted or slashed zero to this font, but these arent available in the Fedora repos, so you will need to download and install the font manually. One downside to this font is the lack of a dotted or slashed zero, making the zero glyph hard to distinguish from the uppercase O. $ sudo dnf install mozilla-fira-mono-fonts Droid Sans Monoĭroid Sans Mono is part of the Droid Family of fonts commisioned by Google for earlier versions of Android. To install Fira Mono, search for it in the Software application in Fedora Workstation, or install the mozilla-fira-mono-fonts package using DNF or yum on the command line. It also features a dotted zero, and different glyphs for the lowercase L and the numeral 1. It has a little more weight than some of the other fonts in our list. $ sudo dnf install adobe-source-code-pro-fonts Fira Monoįira Mono is the monospaced variant of the Firefox brand font Fira Sans. To install Source Code Pro, search for it in the Software application in Fedora Workstation, or install the adobe-source-code-pro-fonts package using DNF or yum on the command line. It features a dotted zero to distinguish that glyph from the uppercase O, and also has different glyphs for the lowercase L and the numeral 1.
Source Code Pro is a monospaced typeface released under the SIL Open Font License by Adobe. $ sudo dnf install levien-inconsolata-fonts Source Code Pro To install Inconsolata, search for it in the Software application in Fedora Workstation, or install the levien-inconsolata-fonts package using DNF or yum on the command line. It features a slashed zero to distinguish that glyph from the uppercase O, and also has easily distinguishable different glyphs for the lowercase L and the numeral 1. InconsolataĪ favourite of many programmers, Inconsolata is a clear and highly readable humanist monospaced font designed by Raph Levien.
Here are six great monospace fonts that can be easily installed from the official Fedora repositories to make your text editor or terminal emulator look and function just that little bit nicer. This article has been checked and updated in January 2020 for correctness.īecause they spend most of their days looking at them, most sysadmins and developers are pretty choosy when it comes to picking a monospaced font for use in terminal emulators or text editors.