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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by dvcrn on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:41PM (#12906095)
Interesting recommendation. I asked around here and turns out one of our designers actually owns the font! I'm going to give it a try for the next hour or so and see if it actually feels different enough for me to consider dropping the $200 on it. As first impression, the font feels "rounder" and I find it a bit harder to read.

Are there any other "non-usual" recommendations for writing code? I remember trying Nitti [0] for a while for, that's the font iA Writer uses.

/edit: After very short usage I already found one thing the author said to be true:

> While using Operator Mono, I found that I scan entire words as I read code more easily; while in other typefaces, my parsing style is often more letter-by-letter.

Not sure why this happens either. Maybe because the font feels more condensed? Single characters almost "merge" into blocks (words). Though it also feels a little bit harder on the eyes to read single characters.

[0]: https://www.boldmonday.com/typeface/nitti/

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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by arm on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @02:16AM (#12907021)
On your question for other ‘non-usual’ recommendations for writing code, I’ve found myself predominantly using Everson Mono¹ simply because of the wide range of characters it supports in Unicode’s BMP (and unbelievably, SMP as well!). I’m pretty sure it contains glyphs for more Unicode codepoints than any other monospaced font mentioned here. Not to mention that it was created by Michael Everson², who has made a sizeable number of contributions to the Unicode Standard himself.

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¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everson_Mono

² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Everson

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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by Darkenetor on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @03:35AM (#12907877)
> Are there any other "non-usual" recommendations for writing code?

Pretty unusual, but after years I finally managed to find an alternative to Consolas I liked enough in Oxygen Mono—albeit I turned down a lot of really good fonts just because they had too much interline spacing and I couldn't tweak in Sublime.

Pretty much no Unicode support outside of common accents (good for every European language at least) and common programming symbols, though. Still I edited in em and en dashes and never found it lacking since.

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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by dingaling on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:46AM (#12909800)
The are some fonts specifically designed for uniqueness of characters for people who suffer dyslexia but which also makes them exellent terminal fonts. I use Mono Dyslexic.
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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by anotheryou on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:53AM (#12909484)
I use Fira Code, it has ligatures https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
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