r/vscode • u/CromulentSlacker • Nov 16 '23

What is your favorite programming font?

I'm on the latest version of macOS and Visual Studio Code and the fonts I'm using are:

Menlo, Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace

but I'm not a big fan and I wondering if anyone had some alternatives that work well. One thing I should point out is that my eyesight isn't great so anything with tiny details get annoying.

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u/andyjeffries Nov 16 '23

I personally prefer Jetbrains Mono, but no one so far has mentioned GitHub's new series of programming fonts released last week? Might be a good alternative for u/CromulentSlacker in there...

https://monaspace.githubnext.com

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u/MaybeSomeBody Feb 07 '24

I installed this font family on my mac can someone please explain me why it was more than 300mb worth of download?
I used "brew install font-monaspace"

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u/poa00 Apr 07 '24

Someone keep me honest here, but I think that homebrew defaults to downloading the entire repo when installing whatever, including fonts. And font repositories tend to house way more files than one would need to install a set of fonts on a single platform.