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Best programming font - Source Code Pro

Hi folks

Recently, I reinstalled my Windows and started to reconfigure my environment to use font I am using for last 5 years - Consolas

I decided to search what is the most popular font nowadays and found http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~programming-fonts where Consolas is quite popular - 249 upvotes. But I found another winner Source Code Pro with 362 upvotes.

So I decided to give it a chance.

I installed it via Chocolatey - https://chocolatey.org/packages/SourceCodePro

And started using it. And initially I did not like it - https://twitter.com/mnaoumov/status/673887576097468416?lang=en

Then I used to it in Visual Studio but I still looked ugly in Sublime Text and ConEmu

Then I found how to configure it to look nice in Sublime Text - https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu/issues/74#issuecomment-166576653

But it depends on DirectWrite support which many apps don’t have.

I raised an issue for the font itself - https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/issues/116 and they advised to use TTF font instead of OTF.

I checked and found that Chocolatey installed only OTF version. So I removed it and installed TTF manually from https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/releases/latest

And now it is nice and charming everywhere

Stay tuned


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