The 10 best fonts for programming: A guide

The 10 best fonts for programming: A guide I ♡ gadgets, games and grammar. One-time American, full-time technologist.


Here, we'll look at ten fonts favoured by programmers, including some of the latest typefaces and some retro classics. Let's get right into it. Fira Code Fira Code is one of the most popular fonts for developers, having been developed with special programming ligatures from Mozilla's Fira Mono typeface. You can see these used in the Sublime Text 3.1 screenshot above, with the != and <= operators being represented via a single glyph to aid readability. It also appears a little softer than...

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