My FAVORITE Font for Coding & Terminal Use

Want a nice font to use in your editor or terminal? Then check out this video.

Many of you have asked what font I use for coding and in the terminal, so in this video I answer that question and explain what it is about that font I like so much. Along the way, we'll see plenty of other interesting fonts.

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00:00 - Start
00:34 - JetBrains Mono
00:57 - Vector Fonts
01:46 - Monospace
02:54 - Serifs?
03:32 - Discriminators
04:30 - X-Height
05:27 - Width
06:14 - Weights
07:01 - Ligatures

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[HiAdrian]

As a Linux user, I must say I quite enjoy the current monospace fonts by Microsoft and Apple, namely Cascadia Code and SF Mono. They're nicely square (I dislike condensed glyphs) and very easy to read, even at small sizes. I've been using SF Mono for several months now.

[ikixox]

Come back to youtube!! I love your videos!!

[moublini]

I’m a student and I have started to use IntelliJ and since I saw JetBrains Mono I fell in love with it. Since I really hate the color palette every JetBrains IDE gives you, I always pair JetBrains Monk with Atom One Dark color theme, it’s just fire.

[zestynotions]

Im also a happy FiraCode Nerd font user. But great to see so many concepts around fonts covered in this video, great stuff !

[MichaelAlderete]

Going on 20 years with Consolas, myself. It ticks many of your boxes, but misses on ligatures and weights. I don’t care about the ligatures, myself (for a programming font), but the weights is an interesting consideration.

Consolas also seems to be harder to obtain than it used to be. It used to be a font that Microsoft distributed for free, but the last time I looked, now it only comes as part of Office? That’s what I seem to remember.

I’ll have to give this one a try!

[alnahian]

I've been using Fira Code with ligatures enabled since I started learning to code. That font fits in any IDE/Code Editor and ngl, I never thought of switching my font ever!

Most probably PHPStorm's default font is Jetbrains Mono. That's a cool font too btw 😀

[ines_eve]

Oh hey, what a pleasant surprise it was to get recommended a video praising my own font! FWIW, I don't actually use bitmap fonts for coding either - I use Fira Code and JetBrains Mono interchangeably in editors (can't make up my mind about which one I prefer) - but in terminals, where the information density is often much larger than in source code, I love the aesthetics and compactness of bitmap fonts, and Cozette was designed with that in mind. Unfortunately, compatibility is a nightmare with bitmap fonts - they won't work in most browsers, electron-based editors, some terminal emulators, etc etc. Bitmap font users are a small community but we love our pixels :) Great video; thanks for the shoutout, and I'm glad you like Cozette!

[maurolimaok]

I 've neve seen a so complete study of fonts.
I think now I REALLY know much more about fonts.
Thanks for the video.

[gristlelollygag]

Amazing analysis and comparison, useful for those of us not familiar with fonts, thanks!

[Blockyheadman]

The more I watch, the more I start to realize how hard it could be to make a font really well. Great video by the way!

[martonnagy]

Great video! For someone who spends loads of time in terminal/IDEs using the right font is very internal.I pulled the trigger and bought Berkeley Mono. I never regretted it and I enjoy using everywhere!

[somdobomk]

Used Fira code for about 5 years before switching to Dank Mono with Victor Mono NF for ligatures for about a year now. Really enjoying that font combo.

[avery]

I didnt know font ligatures were a thing, but after leaning about that I am definatelly going to grab this font, having that is going to make me so happy! Thanks for the new info!!!

[khatdubell]

I've gotten so used to using a ligature font that i was genuinely shocked when i saw one without it the other day on a different computer.

[GottZ]

lol. that feel when you read "JetBrains Mono" from the thumbnail and it actually is.. dope font!

[FiZ]

I've been using Comic Code for a while and enjoying it, but I also appreciate changing things up after a minute. I appreciate your attention to detail, and I'll likely be giving JB Mono a test run in the future. Cheers!

[michazaremba]

Victor Mono is my fav. Great looking and ligatures out of the box.

[aguythateatsnoodles]

My favourite coding font is MonoLisa, it's not free but it ticks all of the same boxes JB Mono does and it's just a little more refined design-wise. It's a little easier on the eyes, more friendly in a way.

[DavidEvenson]

Check out Essential Pragamata Pro. It’s expensive, but it’s far and the most thought I’ve seen go into designing a monospace face.

[bassamsaleh]

wow great explanation of concepts of fonts. I'm using Jetbrains mono now, and it's really great.