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JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers

Google Fonts Monoid
  1. A suite of tools for working with font files.
    SF Mono (https://developer.apple.com/fonts/) is also an amazing font, but generally left out of most online comparison tools due to licensing issues. But, it's freely available for personal use, and is certainly worth a look, and has been my preferred fixed width font for quite some time. SF Mono works great in any system (not just Fruit) but you'll need to use a few tools to dig down to get the OTF's out of the DMG.

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  2. Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography
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    Fonts for Code
    Also you can think out of the box and realize that you may not need a monospaced font for development, but a font that has the advantages of monospaced font. I've been using Input Sans for years now. See at: https://input.djr.com/info/.

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    Monoid is a customizable, minimal + legible font optimized for coding. It's customisable with ligatures, alternates and class based positioning.
    If we are throwing font recommendations here, I favour [Monoid](https://larsenwork.com/monoid/), I love its glyphs and look. But some years ago I installed [Victor Mono](https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/) as a kind of practical joke on myself (it has _italics_, usually enabled for comments in the language you use in your editor, but of course that's up to where you want them) and I found it's actually extremely nice because of that. I now also use it on Obsidian (the other monospaced editor I use aside from VS Code/emacs).

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  5. This open source font family is derived from the Bitstream Vera family, itself close to the Microsoft core Web fonts (see Andale Mono).
    I'm surprised that no one mentioned DejaVu Sans Mono: https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/.

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