There's a subtle benefit as well: it's completely removed the temptation for me to look for column alignment when there's no need for it.
#Akkurat mono ttf code
I find the same benefit you do: I have an easier time reading my code (and other people's code too). I think I would probably like monospaced numbers, but I do like Georgia enough that the proportional numbers don't bother me. Georgia is a bit of a radically-proportional font: even the numbers are proportionally spaced! Most proportional fonts have monospaced numbers. On a high-enough resolution display (125DPI or better) with ClearType, I find it easier to read than Verdana or other sans-serif fonts. I have tried just about every plausible monospaced and and proportional font, and the one I keep coming back to is Georgia. I'm another proportional font programming fanatic. Liberation Mono 13pt (no font smoothing): Just for reference and because pictures give a better idea than my own preferences, here's a comparison:
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The real downside to Liberation Mono is the 0 has just a dot in the center of it instead of a full slash unlike Menlo (doesn't bother me as I can see it, but I would prefer a slash). It's still a great font, just the tools I use end up being more important than the font itself.Ĭompared to Deja Vu, Liberation has less distortion glyphs without smoothing enabled and much more readable. I would have stuck with Dina (similar to it) since bitmap fonts do not get smoothed out by the OS or IDE, but many editors do not support bitmap fonts and the lack of UTF-8 support with Dina is a letdown as well. Liberation though looks great with little to no distortion even without anti-aliasing enabled. Since I dislike it in Intellij and I use their IDE quite a bit for Android/Java, Python, JavaScript or PHP, I disable the Java anti-alias setting and most fonts tend to look bad that way as they're designed for smoothing. I don't mind it elsewhere, but Java just sucks at rendering fonts with its generic anti-aliasing scheme. I generally dislike anti-aliasing/smoothing on fonts when writing code in certain editors/ides (looking at you Intellij Idea). Deja Vu just takes up way more space than it needs to and (my opinion) does not make it anymore readable than Liberation or Dina. I can fit around 7 more lines on my 1920x1200 monitor with 13pt Liberation versus 12pt Deja Vu. Liberation Mono is a more vertically compact font, but I consider it just as readable as Deja Vu. Some of my reasons are preference (what looks better) and some are factual (like spacing).
#Akkurat mono ttf windows
It's hard for me to give you an exact comparison (because I'm not an OSX user and have never used Menlo), but I can give you an idea based on a comparison to Deja Vu (on both Linux and Windows 7).
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