Modern Font Requirements

Code of Sauron

This is great if you don't want the united states politicians to read it.

Better start now, the US might need a new one soon. /s
A smart contract as the declaration of independence would be awesome though.

Is there some language or "syntax formatter" that turns source code into something more off a visual programming language? Like a WYSIWYG markdown editor.
Like python doesn't have curly braces, but you could add some kind of "block illustration".
Or you could have illuminated initials for variable names to make them more unique.
- So IDE with syntax highlights? Those blocks things are also pretty much shown in most IDE, what do you use to code?
  I even have prettifying turned on so the keywords like in, lambda, etc are prettified.

See the problem with this is that even if I write code with this font, I can't force people to read it in this font.
- Of course you can. Instead of committing the code to a repository, you just take screenshots of the everything and commit that instead.
  
  Settle down Satan.
  
  Are you my coworkers?
  
  all code is written down in physical loose leaf notebooks
- You can if you paste it into a write protected pdf
  
  The only real way to write protect it is by printing the pdf into pdf (making it a pdf of an image).
- Yes. The "problem".
- Pretty sure you can use the 𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓸𝓭𝓮 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼
  
  And then maybe you could use something like #define in C to map them back to valid characters? Not sure if there’s a good way to do that in other higher level languages.
- Many editors can read config files from a file in the repository itself. And oftentimes it has the highest priority. Just gotta know the IDE of your target and they have to click "trust this project".
  
  Just add it for VSCode and Jetbrains and you cover like 75-95% of devs

I use Comic Code. It's not free, but it's so whimsical.
For the curious, here is a similar but free font. https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
- Oh hey, someone else who uses Comic Code - greetings!
  I remember when I first saw it, I laughed - and then it grew on me. Then it turned into "I can't believe I am buying a derivation of comic sans" but it is actually a really nice monospaced font.
  Only thing I didn't like was having to figure out how to use Font Patcher to make a copy of it that supports nerd fonts, but it was a one and done process.
  (I also don't really like how it looks in my IDE the few times I find myself on Windows, but I don't really blame the font for that one - looks perfect in the same IDE on Linux...)
  
  How'd you do it?

JetBrains Mono to the top!

Iosevka, a variant with slashed zero.
https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

IBM Mono Plex >>> all other, especially this horrible mess

I... Somehow just realized that I can of course change my editor font. After three years in professional software dev.
Any recommendations for maximizing readability?
- I picked up a great little test along the way: type the word ill or illegal followed by 100, using a capital I in illegal and mixing an upper case O and a zero in the number.
  Ill10O
  Can you clearly tell all these characters apart in your editor font?
  I am all about Fira Code, myself
- https://www.codingfont.com/ is a fun, tournament style quiz that compares different monospace fonts. It's far from comprehensive, but I found it useful to gauge what font features I find stylish and readable
  (For the record, my go-to font is Jetbrains Mono)
  
  I got Fira Code, which tracks, I've used it before. I use Comic Code though. (A monospace comic sans type font.)
  
  Lol I got Fira Code which is what I actually use. Awesome tool
  
  That was fun. Apparently I'm a JetBrains Mono user. Of course it might be simply what I'm used to, because I'm a long time IntelliJ user. It wouldn't surprise me if this is already my font.
  
  My go-to has been Fira Code for some time. Just did the test, and Fira Code was the winner. Jetbrains Mono was a close second for me though.
  
  Thanks, I got inconsolata. I'm not a coder but I'm going to use it for other things.
- Comic mono
  
  I unironically love comic sans derivatives, they're just super readable to me
- Look up a good article on coding fonts and pick your camp! At the moment I have DejaVu installed but I'm not a purist. As long as it's properly designed for this I'm happy. Ligatures are particularly nifty in some languages but no big deal. I recall one author picking a font so that the italics would be cursive rather than monospace, so that his comments would look like handwritten notes in the margin, but I never got a chance to try it myself. Looked great though!
- Fira Code is my go-to.
- I guess it depends on your preference but I love Fira Code
  
  I use it as well
  Is there any other font that has that variety of ligatures?
- Try JetBrains Mono.
- I'm a big fan of GoHuFont
- Verdana.
  The I/l and O/o/0, 0/8/ø are all distinct, so are all the different kinds of brackets. Also, this isn't a monospace font, so wide letters such as m and w are wide, instead of being squashed into an unreadable barcode.
  Letters aren't meant to be monospace, and sans TUI nothing in computers still needs to be.
  If you do need one, ex. for TUI, I second JetBrains Mono!
  Also, Verdana is not a libre font, Noto Sans is a libre font that also has these properties, although code does look much better in Verdana to me.
  
  Also, this isn't a monospace font
  Oh no.
  
  You wouldn’t want mono space in languages where indentation matters?
- It's a bit vanilla but I like DejaVu Sans Mono 8pt in my terminal, which is where I edit scripts and things
  Curiously, I don't think that looks quite as good at larger sizes, so I've been using Liberation Mono 9pt or 10pt elsewhere.
  Both of those have distinct glyphs for the usual easily confused candidates. Can't be having my lowercase L's and 1s looking similar.
- Big fan of jetbrains mono.
- My favorite is "Inconsolata"
  
  Me too! I don't code but I really like it.
- I've really enjoyed Monaspace as well as using Inter for my interfaces. Maybe you will too? :)
- i always use the classic 6x13 or 8x16 font
- Iosevka, IBM Plex, Fira Code, Space Mono, JetBrains Mono
- Hermit
- I just use IBM Plex, but that's mostly because the keycaps my keyboard came with used it :) I also think it's just fine for readability (i.e. I/l and O/0 are different enough)

I really em want to makenit a reality, do anyone here know a 17th century antique monosace font?

std::string independence;

SideShowBobUUUUGH.wav

Putting the “no” in zapfino

reduce the flourishes and/or add more spacing between lines and it would be a lot more readable.

- In this case it's because part of the joke is the quote tweet. You could also link to the tweet instead of a screenshot but then we need to connect to Musk's servers at some point (even if through a proxy like nitter)
  
  Yes, but he could've copy pasted the title.
  You could've changed the main title to something like "programming the declaration of independence" or "programming like it's 1750"
  He mocks op. The gag is not the font anymore.
- Cause I ~~reposted~~ stole it from some other internet page
  I just usually download the image than a screenshot when posting