Input: Fonts for Code

Nice but nothing will replace Iosevka for me now, the fact they have alternative glyphs for common programming usage and that you can rebuild the font to whichever set you want combined with extremely legibility at small sizes and a default condensed design (more characters per line for same width screen/window) makes it close to the perfect programming/terminal font imo.

FWIW, the Input Mono family are the best coding and writing fonts I&#x27;ve found over the years, &quot;Inconsolata&quot; being a runner-up.<p>These days I use Input fonts in Emacs, all terminals, and writing apps like Ulysses, also on iOS. Nothing else comes close in terms of readability.

Looks nice. Good thing they included stylistic alternatives for their default curly brackets, because that default would really bother me.<p>I don&#x27;t like the weird proprietary licence though. There are plenty of excellent free software fonts out there (e.g., <i>Hack</i> or its ancestor <i>Deja Vu Sans Mono</i> and sibling <i>Ubuntu Mono</i> — all three exist today because of the permissive licensing of their common ancestor <i>Bitstream Vera</i>).

I&#x27;ve wanted a proportional font for coding for a long time! I sympathize with Rob Pike:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rob_pike&#x2F;status&#x2F;567476552187641856" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rob_pike&#x2F;status&#x2F;567476552187641856</a><p>I much prefer reading proportional fonts. This new font solves a problem I&#x27;ve had: punctuation is hard to discern in proportional fonts. But I&#x27;ll still have trouble with deeply-nested functions not lining up.

Maybe it&#x27;s familiarity but having just tried this (and Iosevka recommended elsewhere in the thread), I much prefer Consolas. Find it a lot easier on my eyes (this is with the Monokai-Cobalt theme on VSCode).

I tried switching all my UI fonts to Input recently, under Linux. Input Mono is pretty cool, but for whatever reason Input Sans and Input Serif have their kerning all messed up, making them very tiring to read.<p>At least Linux seems to handle the multitude of visual weights decently these days; when Input first came out it seemed like Linux would pick one weight as Regular and one as Bold and every other weight was mapped to one of those two.

Happy user of Input Mono ever since it came out back in 2014. Never looked back once!

Don&#x27;t agree with there arguments about proportional fonts for coding though

I tried many programming fonts, and nothing so far was able to surpass the ergonomics of DejaVu Sans Mono.

Beautiful writing, ugly font.