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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by gclaugus on Friday July 26, 2019 @09:53AM (#20534790)
I'd say yeah, I bought PragmataPro because it's a work of art and has great ligature support. Operator Mono is another popular choice.
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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by quaffapint on Friday July 26, 2019 @10:40AM (#20535125)
In terms of ligature support, as a free alternative there is FiraCode... https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by gclaugus on Friday July 26, 2019 @11:30AM (#20535504)
Yeah, Fira Code is an excellent font, and it is something I have used in the past. PragmataPro looked prettier to my eyes so I bought it, that's all. In fact, it's linked as an alternative on that Github page.

The condensed look and lack of interlinear spacing of PPro are a nice bonus, not that there aren't other condensed fonts. I suppose for intl use PPro might be nice too since it has 9000+ glyphs, and the dev is still adding more.

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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by noir_lord on Friday July 26, 2019 @11:27AM (#20535489)
Iosevka as well, which has custom builds (on of which is aimed at making it as like pragmata pro as possible and it is damn close).

Gorgeous font, bit of a bugger to build but once you get it working hours of tinkering ;)

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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by gnuvince on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:12PM (#20535860)
One big problem with Fira Code is its lack of italics.
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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by exogeny on Friday July 26, 2019 @10:15AM (#20534957)
I bought FF Kievit back in the day because it was the most beautiful thing I had ever saw. Now everything on the web is Proxima Nova and it is a boring, boring place.
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