What Programming Font Should You Use?

I like programming.
Fonts tried in this video
1. Menlo
2. Comic Shanns
3. Fira Code
4. JetBrains Mono
5. MonoLisa
#benawad
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[@dandandev]

wait you still exist?

[@cryptonative]

Legend has it he switched to Vim and never got to exit since

[@null_spacex]

😂😂😂😂 bro didn’t even say hi

[@tmattoneill]

My exact thought! :D

[@Billy_98]

These are the things I achieved since your last video: - Got promoted from Mid to Senior role - Got married - Had a kid - Got fired - Got divorced

[@juliancorredor1128]

sorry for your loss

[@Ste00I]

Impressive speedrun

[@mattlm64]

- Died - Got reincarnated

[@hakizimanafred6482]

Bruh bruh bruh. sorry man

[@nonono9700]

Damn it's only been 2 month or so...

[@0jas.]

I would also like to know what room temperature should I program at???

[@mhzprayer]

It should be cold enough that your chocolate doesn't melt but not so much that's your bare feet get cold and cause you to wiggle them around

[@ridhomaulana2627]

Bro is mogging us with the thumbnail

[@_Lumiere_]

Bro is locked in

[@AlexTheRealDev]

we got font tier list before gta 6

[@SnowTheParrot]

JetBrains Mono guy myself. But i get bored and try out different weird fonts form time to time./ good to see you again

[@Stevie1derson]

Just to note Menlo is only the default for Mac, Consolas for Windows

[@FabuBrik]

Who the hell is using windows?

[@juliancorredor1128]

@@FabuBrik it's literally the most used operating system

[@night23412]

@@FabuBrik people who do stuff other than code, watch videos or browse the web all day

[@FabuBrik]

@@night23412 why would those people be concerned with Consolas then? Hmm

[@PhilipAlexanderHassialis]

@@FabuBrik actually lot of people, even in the programming world. Try to get your head out of the "oh all devs make web apps in Macs" for a second and go out in the real world where most companies will issue you a work computer with Windows and that's that.

[@TheGrinningSkull]

Now to do it in light mode

[@SufianBabri]

I will probably only listen to the audio then 😆

[@Erik_The_Viking]

Wingdings, 3pt font. Bonus for white text on white background in light mode.

[@floodo1]

answering the real questions

[@saparalmas]

Nice cinematography, definitely leveled up

[@MarioDuch]

Finally a video about the important question! Thank you.

[@chrisholland6366]

This is honestly more important that what IDE you use

[@krtirtho]

Ok, I think this is the last day on Earth since Ben uploaded. Everyone brace for impact.

[@shinodinhaa]

That was very helpful, thank you very much!

[@dariusduesentrieb]

Thanks to you, I finally took some time to find my out what my favorite font is, and it's Fragment Mono.

[@amaeshiet7625]

Bro showed up to talk about fonts 😂

[@Kat21]

pick whichever font you want

[@tmattoneill]

Wing Dings

[@Jaryt]

I dished out the cash for MonoLIsa a few months ago bc for some reason a bunch of the other fonts just felt off to me. If I had to describe it, I'd call it "cramped". It has a ton of customization too, which is super nice. Can't say it made me a 10x engineer the same way my gamer rug made me global elite in csgo, but def reduced the cognitive load of programming for long hours, every single day.

[@gidmanone]

You know the channel is over when this is what we get as content now

[@MagmaIfrit04]

Hey Ben! Just letting you know I’m working really hard on a full void pet UST and I’d love your input ❤

[@CosmicBPlug]

You showed off Apple’s Menlo font, but their SF Mono font is superior for programming

[@electrolyteorb]

Tf you mean by superior? Superior for you maybe

[@swiftrealm]

@@electrolyteorb Superior for everything.

[@MrZax-kl5si]

Welcome back dude

[@kmylodarkstar2253]

Hi Ben, what do you think about light themes and eye care? did you ever noticed that is hard to read with dark backgrounds? on the other hand we have so much blue light emission when working with light themes... I mean 8 or more hours by day is something we need to check.

[@masrursakib6528]

This guys asking the right questions

[@re.liable]

Hello welcome back. I've been using Monaspace Krypton. I swear I dislike its "sci fi"-ness but I can seem to read code better with it... In my eyes the edges get rounded when small enough. It kinda looks like my handwriting too

[@TheDakes]

You should play around with your color theme and also highlight some parts in bold. That makes way bigger of a difference. Oh and I use Comic Code and enjoy it very much!

[@TylerJBrown192]

ok good talk thanks Ben

[@Bugslamor]

The king has returned!

[@phee3D]

ben awad jump scare

[@Jomity]

YOU'RE BACK (i've missed you)

[@Kam-no2ku]

the man returns

[@CopingPepe]

I personally use Operator Mono. It's a paid font but I was able to get the ttf files when some repo in Github published it as part of their code.

[@adithyabijoy452]

Return of the king

[@sharoon_rafeek]

The king is back.

[@varunkedia6729]

Most of the times I use Jetbrains mono semibold, but sometimes, just to switch it up and get a retro feel, I use FixedSys excelsior

[@etienneperet1881]

Using Intel One Mono personnally and loving it

[@princeofexcess]

hard to design a good test since brain gets significantly better at what it gets used to. Good idea for a scientific experiment with n > 1. Although not sure how much it actually matters

[@4ortson]

this guy is alive!!!

[@RedstonekPL]

personally i think iosevka is the best you can fit more code on your screen

[@debajyatidey9468]

Yes!

[@WillKlein]

Yo it's Ben! What a nice gift on a Friday night.

[@0xPanda1]

Where have you been?? 😭

[@abiodun6897]

welcome back

[@vaishnavejp9247]

missed you king

[@vincenttse3167]

Welcome back my boi😸

[@cubondemais]

basically, use whatever font you like, as long as you can read it (even wingdings if you're an expert on it)

[@33v4.]

dude comes back to talk about fonts made my day ngl

[@nan5715]

Thank you, I had insomnia and I slept like a baby

[@kitanuma]

I have a personal list for this lol. - CommitMono (for just getting things done) - Liga SFMono Nerd (for terminal stuff) - Iosevka Comfy (Normal/Wide Duo) - Jetbrains Mono - Monaspace Neon (I like this for vscode terminal) Rotate between these. All are good.

[@rumble1925]

+1 for CommitMono. Like Menlo but slightly more legible imo. Pair with Ra Eyeful theme and you're good to go

[@Killow]

yeaaaaaaaaa Ben uploaded!

[@flyte9844]

Hi from the retirement home !! Remember watching you when I was a kid

[@adamlahchimi-zb9rc]

Guess who’s back 🎉🎉

[@flufster777]

MonoLisa is really good, (there's a free trial variant you can download if you dig into the site a bit more.) You missed Operator Mono (also paid). And the Monaspace family (which has some cool ideas).

[@eleah2665]

He's back! Remember the good old days of useState?

[@WillDelish]

Make sure to also use a retina spec display or your code will look like your minecraft fort, as if a 5y old built it

[@Bricefriha]

He is alive

[@SoreBrain]

Finally someone dares to tackles real controversial DX topics

[@aveshlutchman8573]

SpaceMono is solid for everything from your terminal to coding.

[@wishdere]

i used pragmata pro (stolen for free) and then when i realised i couldn't use ligatures on the old stolen font i switched to iosevka (ss08 pragmata pro style)

[@WilliamWelsh]

hes alive

[@ivan.jeremic]

Wait, I noticed that you looked younger before you took a break from KZbin. Then, you appeared to age significantly in some appearances on other channels, but now you look young again. How did that happen?

[@bronzekoala9141]

Call me satan but I actually use a proportional (non mono) font for coding (the ubuntu font). I found that I can read code much faster in it which outweighs the occasional misalignment of stuff. Also it saves some horizontal screen space. Misalignments don't even happen that often because it's rare that lines are horizontally aligned by the number of characters. Mostly it's just tabs or repeating sequences at the start of the lne which occupy the same length anyway.

[@flipperiflop]

Comic Code is such a good coding font!

[@lysendertrades]

I use Monolisa for around 9+months already. No complaints so far.

[@bilbobeutlin3405]

I use fira because the triple equals thing just makes me feel superior! The >= is super ugly tho

[@owaisahmed7820]

Try victor mono

[@yahyaahmad9432]

So Ben is alive 😮.

[@ohwow2074]

The last one looked the best. The default one for VS Code is good enough but annoys my eyes lol.

[@JoelJosephReji]

aren't all the photos from DHH's Twitter profile?

[@henryvaneyk3769]

Inconsolata is my favourite. Been coding for 34 years, so my eyesight is not so great anymore. Fonts matter a lot to me. The most important part is that a coding font must show a very visible difference between 0 (zero) and O (uppercase o). And I absolutely hate ligatures.

[@TimaGixe]

Lol, I thought you died in a coding accident! I am happy you survived xD

[@tbntdima]

operator mono team?

[@MRtorki55]

Absent for a decade and showed up to put an egg

[@VinayKumar-vu3en]

0:09 dhh can't just take a break lmao

[@AjinkyaBhushan]

Honestly, if your IDE is not in light mode and font is not set to Comic Sans, you are not a developer.

[@onee]

Obviously Comic Sans. 😂

[@khilseith]

No Cascadia Code?

[@chenkaihong]

sir you forget Iosevka Nerd Font Ser, it's for NEET developer

[@diamanteduul8084]

Feeding the channel little crumbs so it doesn't starve? You're not a good owner!!

[@wlockuz4467]

JetBrains Mono is has always been my default

[@xyzmovies6430]

No DHH was harmed in filming of this video 😅

[@n_165]

My favorite coding font is Times New Roman...

[@TheKennyWorld]

Ben ❤

[@mihirphadnis2]

you forgot Victor Mono ben...

[@cariyaputta]

Obviously Iosevka. Glad the GOAT is back.

[@dritterregenschirm2324]

Comic code ftw! (comic shanns but paid (🏴‍☠🏴‍☠🏴‍☠) and with more characters and nicer looking)

[@wokeuplikethis7730]

welcome back lol

[@ithahu4988]

times new roman user here

[@dpgwalter]

Commit Mono is where it's at.

[@leularia]

Dank Mono 🦄

[@godhandinfamous]

you have been away from YT for too long, I have forgotten all you have taught before

[@31redorange08]

0:05 WTF is wrong with that room? Is that open thing a door or a window?

[@ra2enjoyer708]

It depends on your mood and/or sobriety state.

[@ethan82714]

I've never been very font of any of these

[@OGShawnLee]

Poppins.

[@swiftrealm]

SF Mono. No looking back.

[@ganumba11]

HES BACC

[@chunkspiggle3916]

Bro's channel was a ZIRP💀

[@lopatoj]

yay

[@Excalibaard]

The only correct answer is SeriousSans -> comic shanns doubly forked

[@TheTmLev]

Iosevka will look different for sure

[@crides0]

Seriously, try (some variant of) Iosevka