No, it's not recommended for coding; it's a display font, to be used for headlines, titles, and the like, things where you want a little bit of stylistic flair. Here's the description from the link:
About
Space Mono is an original fixed-width type family designed by Colophon
Foundry for Google Design. It supports a Latin Extended glyph set,
enabling typesetting for English and other Western European languages.
Developed for editorial use in headline and display typography, the
letterforms infuse a geometric foundation and grotesque details with
qualities often found in headline typefaces of the 1960s (See:
Microgramma[1], Eurostile[2]), many of which have since been co-opted by
science fiction films, television, and literature.
Typographic features include old-style figures, superscript and subscript
numerals, fractions, center-height and cap-height currency symbols,
directional arrows, and multiple stylistic alternates.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgramma_(typeface)
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostileit's not recommended for coding
You're not kidding! Code displayed in this font looks downright bizarre[0]!
I think that looks lovely...
I've been using Monaco for years. Something about it is very pleasing to me. However, I'm sort of bored with it and haven't been able to find a suitable replacement.
Try Fantastique Sans Mono:
https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
At the very least, it will make you really appreciate Monaco.
I really like (and currently use) Input Mono.
Chiming in to agree. I like how you can customize certain characters (like `*' being at the top or in the middle of text, `g' being one or two stories, `0' having a slash or dot).
I find "Roboto Mono Sans" very pleasing and easy to read on dark background. Looks great in Terminal also.
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono?query=roboto+m... click on the paint button top right to switch to dark bg
I was in same same boat, but took a liking to Inconsolata-dz https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Inconsolata
FiraCode https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/ ;) ... I actually like it.
I am pretty happy with Monaco