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Dear LazyWeb: Setting up a new Mac, what's are some groovy new monospace fonts for terminals and IDEs?
OK, so 
was like throwing raw meat in the piranha pool. Probably should have mentioned that I’m already using Inconsolata whose author BTW is here: @raph
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I'll look at them but the bar is high.
I have installed 16 monospace fonts (all the free ones mentioned in this thread). Have taken a screenshot of the ls(1) man page in each. Thanks again. Wow!
If I don't squeeze a blog out I'll at least post an image gallery or something.
Winner so far is … um er. Some are just astonishingly neutral and I respect that, but I picked FF Tisa for my blog which shows I like a *bit* of personality.
Hmmmm…
@timbray Have been enjoying Berkeley Mono
@timbray starship pitches Fira Code Nerd Font from nerdfonts [ https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads ] and it's worked well for me.
bitterseeds @woodwardjd @timbray This. There are 2.2GB of fonts available there including those with icons for VIM. It's comprehensive. :)
@timbray uh oh, its rabbit hole time Tim!
I currently use Dank Mono - https://philpl.gumroad.com/l/dank-mono
I also really love MonoLisa - https://www.monolisa.dev/
Definitely find a font that includes symbols/powerline support. I also love the script variants. Makes editing in vim a joy :)
@timbray My current favorite: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
@timbray Fira Code and Jetbrains Mono are both good.
@timbray I've enjoyed the thoughtfulness of adobe source code pro https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro
@timbray been using MesloLGS NF Regular for like ever.
@timbray I’m a personal fan of SF Mono on the Mac. Outside that, I’m a big fan of Input Mono Narrow, from the Input family of fonts. Free (as in beer, sadly not as in freedom), and can be customized to taste. You can choose your preferred letterforms for commonly confused characters (1, i, l, etc.), line spacing, and so on.
@timbray i have used sudo for several years, and I think it’s great https://www.kutilek.de/sudo-font/
@timbray I went with Fira Code with ligatures turned on in my most recent setup and I’m pretty happy with it. I think JetBrains Mono is very similar as well.
@timbray Inconsolata is my fave
@timbray Anonymous Pro. Every time I try something else I come back to it.
@timbray I switched to Iosevka Term a couple of years ago. https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
@timbray you made me go track this down again https://computecuter.com/ I found this kind of thing (and eg Victor Mono, Monolisa) hard to get to a readable size on a small screen, but I've got a bigger monitor now so maybe I'll try again? They do look great in code samples in presentations tho.
@timbray why not choose your fav. https://www.codingfont.com/
I’m sorry I couldn’t find the post that turned me on to the site.
@timbray I like the mono font from https://b612-font.com/ and the prosaic Deja Vu Sans Mono https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/
@timbray actually I don’t know if it’s monospaced, but it is very nice.
@timbray I believe the Jetbrains UI refresh uses Inter by default. It's very pleasing from my current experience with it.
@timbray I still use Inconsolata.
@timbray I installed Jetbrains mono a couple of weeks ago and then completely forgot I was using it, so it must be pretty good!
@timbray @raph I like https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode , because I used FIra with #FirefoxOS (who even knows what it was?).
Humberto 
@timbray Fira Code for my IDE and terminal, SF Mono for anything else.
@timbray It’s not cheap (or new), but I really like Operator Mono from Hoefler & Co. https://typography.com/fonts/operator/overview
@timbray love Source Code Pro but also Menlo is the default on Mac and it's just super nice anyway.
@brandonscript @timbray I switched to SF Mono, but a modified version that has a bunch of ligatures in it, like where “->” is an actual arrow and “|>|” is a right-facing triangle.
@timbray my fav isn't free, but PragmataPro. https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/
@timbray Another vote for Fira Code. I’m using it with terminal vim. Ligatures are super nice.
There’s a nerd font version too.
@timbray Hasklig is really interesting for the ligatures, but I couldn’t live with the regular glyphs. I think I’m using Monaco or something equally uninspired.
@timbray ymmv but Menlo pre-installed on the Mac has always been my goto monospace font.
@timbray A monospace blog?