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Re:Programming Fonts by miffe on Saturday July 09, 2022 @03:41AM (#32032831)
These types of sites seems to always be missing my favorite programming font. Pragmata Pro.

https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

Re:Programming Fonts by baruchel on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:10AM (#32033000)
Pragmata Pro is not a publicly-licensed font and can't be embbeded in such a site. Are you aware of Iosevka however?

It is a similarily ambitious project. The glyphs have several variants and you can get some variant sharing many features with Pragmata Pro.

I asked once for a very specific Unicode character, which was added in the following weeks.

Re:Programming Fonts by wakeupcall on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:08AM (#32034279)
I bought the full set of Pragmata Pro on sale, but I also really like Iosevka. If you like the style (slender/condensed), both are very appealing.

Pragmata Pro is several notches above in overall quality IMHO. Hand-hinting at smaller sizes makes a world of difference if this is important to you. This means you can use the same font from low-res console to a 4k monitor and will consistently look wonderful.

At higher DPI settings, Pragmata has a more cohesive sense of style. This is hard to quantify as it's quite subjective, but as pixel-perfect issues go away, the overall artistic direction start to become very important IMHO. The fact that this is done by a single individual shows in both little details and overall direction.

I'm not trying to push Pragmata, I just want to say that I think the price is fully justified and absolutely worth it. The work that went into the fontset is absolutely huge.

And as I said before, I also like Iosevka. Wonderful effort as well. It's slightly less packed, which I'm not super-fond of, and I find it only really shines if you have a high-DPI monitor. I use the different stylistic sets in my editor to subtly highlight different keywords.

Re:Programming Fonts by innocenat on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:16AM (#32033036)
The downside of Isaevka is that next time you know it, it's already version 553.12.3 or something.
Re:Programming Fonts by prmoustache on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:55AM (#32033813)
And your computer suddently burst into flame if you aren't using the latest version?
Re:Programming Fonts by carlhjerpe on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:58AM (#32034657)
If you use a package manager to install them it's inconvenient with upgrades all the time.
Re:Programming Fonts by pinsl on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:51AM (#32033184)
how is that a downside?
Re:Programming Fonts by kibwen on Saturday July 09, 2022 @10:23AM (#32035363)
I bought this on sale years ago, and I really do adore it. The narrow-but-tall design means it optimizes for number of characters per line at the expense of fewer lines displayed at once, which IMO is a fine tradeoff since our tools tend to handle vertical overflow (via scrolling) better than horizontal overflow (via wrapping). That said, I'm sure you can find a free font with similar metrics.

I will also say that I've had a great experience with the developer of the font. I once noticed a bug in one of the glyphs, and within a week of reporting it he had acknowledged it, fixed it, and pushed a new release.

Re:Programming Fonts by sph on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:51AM (#32034153)
It's been in my wishlist for years. I still find it hard to pull the plug (and then get bored of it), but PragmataPro is truly a work of art.
Re:Programming Fonts by rbanffy on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:51AM (#32033785)
I love this because my favorite font is there. And it’s very liberally licensed.