Buy a 4K+ resolution monitor to overcome your programming font addiction, and get the fucking job done!

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Fira Code Aurulent Source Code Pro

Best fonts for programming

1. Aurulent: It looks like it was written by an calligraphy pen, add the missing glyphs from Fira Code, my favorite.
2. Source Code Pro: Simple and crisp, optimized the 0 1 4 r i l glyphs, make it applies to both prose and coding.
3. FangSongCode: Source Code Pro with 聚珍新仿，see more on DIY 中文编程字体。
4. Fira Code: Most popular coding font, patched with nerd fonts and redesigned the r glyph.
5. 字语青梅硬笔：手写中文字体，适用于 excalidraw 手画风格的架构图。
6. Monaspace Argon: programming font from GitHub Next, the goat!

Tips:

1. you can rename the family name by fontname.py:

python  fontname.py  "SF Mono"  FiraCode-Regular.ttf 

2. for non-4K monitor, you need hint the truetype font:

sudo apt install ttfautohint
for f in ./*.ttf; do ttfautohint ${f} out/${f} --stem-width-mode qqq --composites ;done

3. patch powerline for your font:

docker run --rm -v ./:/in:Z -v ./patched:/out:Z nerdfonts/patcher --use-single-width-glyphs --boxdrawing --powerline --powerlineextra

4. 中英文合并的字体中文间距很大的问题解决方案

from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont
font = TTFont('C:\\Documents\\YaHei.ttf')

# xAvgCharWidth 只能脚本设置，fontforge 计算的不对
# 设置成中文字符宽度的 1/2，否则部分 windows 软件（字体预览、notepad）中文间距很大
font['OS/2'].xAvgCharWidth = 500
# 下面两个在 fontforge 也可以设置，设置后 terminal 可以识别成等宽字体
font['OS/2'].panose.bProportion = 9  # 9 表示 monospaced,0 表示 any
font['OS/2'].panose.bFamilyType = 2  # 2 表示 Latin: Text and Display 
font.save('C:\\Documents\\YaHei-R.ttf')
# 注意，大部分 terminal 展示非 ascii 字符的宽度是 ascii 字符*2，
# 由于 FangSongCode 的 ASCII 字符是 600，所以会用 1200 宽度展示中文字符，导致看着间距很大并且不是居中
# 目前无解，只能选用中英 2:1 的字体中文才能正常展示，Yahei:Consolas=1000:550，间距看着会正常一点