Jonathan Blow Choosing a Font

[@ThePurpleSnork]

I just want Jonathan Blow to follow me around all day so when I’m whining about all the minor annoyances in life he can validate my feelings and complain along with me.

[@thrwwccnt5845]

he'd complain about you complaining

[@ThePurpleSnork]

@@thrwwccnt5845 I'm here for it. I'm oddly fascinated by his gripes. I'd be fine with him telling me all the things I'm doing wrong in my life is well. Might be good for me.

[@kuklama0706]

Your own personal Jesus Someone who knows your fears Someone who's there

[@ChaosPootato]

He might call you a dumbass for complaining about the wrong things, it's a double edged sword

[@MenkoDany]

You know given what a prolific poaster he is, you could download all of his videos, VoDs and blogs. Run the videos through openai whisper, finetune a (preferably local) LLM with the data. Then give it a system prompt that says "you're the distilled consciousness of Jonathan Blow that's following me around all day" and you'll have a pretty good experience.

[@vargonian]

If I ever worry I'm becoming too much of a curmudgeon, I can always count on Jonathan to give me some perspective.

[@softsun2134]

I would’ve expected John to be indifferent to the font he was using.

[@funnyonlineuploads]

like he would ever pass on the opportunity to complain about something

[@Pabloparsil]

Yeah he doesn't give a shit about his emacs setup so why would he care about the font specifically. I guess it speaks more to his artistic side so he cares even if it's pointless?

[@LunaticEdit]

5:04 sad face, Iosevka is MY JAM. It works great when you jack the font size up. Everything's super easy to read but you keep the horizontal space due to its narrowness.

[@mwcz5190]

Iosevka is great.

[@nefrace]

I even use Iosevka Aile for my DE (:

[@fallingintime]

I like compiling the font with slashed 7s

[@howdoiexitvim-sg2xl]

Iosevka makes me feel up for a zozin session ;)

[@subhajitmishra007]

Fira Code should be the one!

[@1gnore_me.]

I love how jonathan blow is a super serious programmer & game developer, but he just randomly spells out thicc under his breath

[@the_original_dude]

I tried choosing a font a couple of times It's impossible When you start comparing the several ones you chose, they all seem wrong somehow I gave up, and just use Consolas

[@SaHaRaSquad]

I always just used one until I stumbled over one I liked more. Comparison is a waste of time imho. A while ago I found Iosevka which ticks all the boxes for me, and so I just stick with that everywhere.

[@peezieforestem5078]

quitter.

[@monad_tcp]

I always keep coming back to Consolas, maybe its familiarity. I also like Fira Code.

[@supernewuser]

he's like a seinfeld character

[@DEVDerr]

You can try them all, but ultimately you will always go back to JetBrains Mono :D

[@gewdvibes]

Yep

[@2bussy]

preach brother

[@AzureFlash]

All roads lead to Iosevka. There's a flavor of Iosevka for you, and if there's certain styles of glyphs you insist on you can customize that too. Iosevka is font endgame.

[@johnpekkala6941]

When Im doing my game dev in say Unity and Unreal I tend to select code fonts that match the theme of the game im working on at the moment like creepy fonts for horror games and a say medieival style for a medieval type of game. All to get right mood and feel while developing. Same with IDE themes and colors. The tricky part is to find a font/theme combo that has the right style but not being impossible to read at same time. :)

[@graydhd8688]

That's a really fun idea actually, like the programmer version of method acting lol

[@ArthurSchoppenweghauer]

Ha. Fun he says. @@graydhd8688

[@4.0.4]

That sounds pretty fun tbh

[@Seacle14]

This comment is bait

[@pokefreak2112]

been using fira for years, I feel validated in a weird way lol

[@MH_VOID]

Been using Fira Code (and before the CoC, mixed with jetbrains mono - which is basically the same thing). Sure it's definitely not perfect, but the other fonts are overall just worse. Every time I look for better, I just come back to it :|

[@noname-sj1hi]

Guy, guy... Stop fighting, you're all wrong. Comic Code is the only right answer.

[@ragectl]

Fira Code is a great font, even better when your terminal and editor supports ligature options

[@4.0.4]

What are the ligatures for? Is there some programming language that uses a lot of arrows or something?

[@xynyde0]

This is the only thing me and him have in common lol. Also if someone wants to try out a new font, check out input mono. You can customise it to some extent, and re-produce most major monospace font styles, with more legibility.

[@loganarichey4003]

"Okay, is there a way that I can turn off the angry fruit salad" 😆

[@RuukuLada]

Cascadia Code

[@gustavo4passos]

My choice too

[@xhivo97]

I've been loving Comic Mono. I don't know why, it has a certain charm and I enjoy the feel of it.

[@advertslaxxor]

I use Comic Code myself. It's great.

[@TobySug]

Have you tried fantasque sans mono? It's similar, but I like it more.

[@xhivo97]

@@TobySug Nope. I'll keep it in mind if I ever want to try something else, thanks.

[@alexandrecoma221]

Comic Code is even better.

[@untimateds]

He just replacing the javascript placeholder without thinking

[@wedge_one]

the best font I found IMHO is the jet-brain mono family. it is just *chef kiss*.

[@poo81]

I'm still looking for that perfect font

[@anon_y_mousse]

Back like 20-ish years ago when I developed on Windows I used Lucida as my font for everything. Now I use the one labelled "monospace" in Konsole, and Deja Vu Sans Mono for everything else. I think it looks fairly good. I used to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono for a while, but the dash was too small and it kept annoying me.

[@captainnoyaux]

one should make a plugin that switch fonts every day until one matches your taste :D

[@LatinosErastis25]

IIRC Casey also uses Liberation Mono

[@spell105]

Good to know that bad taste is objective.

[@LatinosErastis25]

@@spell105 To each his own Jesse

[@SaHaRaSquad]

Why do people keep complaining about ligatures? You can just turn them off in the editor/terminal for all fonts and that's it.

[@qvindicator]

I'm very picky with my fonts. I love Fira Mono because of the way it does the zeros and the lowercase g's

[@ghos7bear]

I'd use Fixedsys if it wasn't pain in the ass to make it look perfect in HiDPI Windows environment.

[@vesk4000]

JetBrains Mono is my jam. Once I saw it, it was a no-brainer for me.

[@johanrg70]

Yup, same here.

[@deificGashsaucer]

3rd here. Love at first sight

[@pkop4]

Yes, the best

[@s4uss]

but merging into arrows => and ->, not super intuitive

[@vesk4000]

@@s4uss I really like ligatures actually. However, if you don't, you can always turn them off.

[@Sulhouse]

Is this what my life has become

[@enis7x]

I went through this loop for a month where I was just searching and changing fonts. Now I just keep the default Jetbrains Mono in my IDE and refuse to even think about changing it.

[@amin29a39]

I use Consolas ,always

[@jesusmgw]

I maintain Comic Shanns Mono, I was hoping for he to choose it. Best programming font ever.

[@distant6606]

Wasn't the problem for the bad syntax highlighting the unclosed comment slash that he has in the last line? 😂

[@thepatzer]

JetBrains Mono. The nerdfont variant if you need the extra glyphs; stock if you don’t. Done.

[@kahahabahaha]

I just use proggyclean at sz 24 with antialiasing turned off. Looks nice if you like those old school pixel fonts

[@denisblack9897]

Totally agreed on the final pick! I’d just take one that’s in Xcode, that’s my jam

[@stefanplusplus917]

jetbrain mono exists

[@smile4cs]

really like bront-dejavusans

[@Muskar2]

I think fonts are underappreciated

[@00jknight]

That is a hideous chrome theme

[@thrwwccnt5845]

the right answer is always comic sans

[@wtwingate]

MonoLisa is my favorite, but you gotta pay for it.

[@2bussy]

paying for a font is peak tism

[@cbbbbbbbbbbbb]

Just went through the same process. Narrowed it down to the ones below. I really love Average Mono, but the zeros need a line or something in the middle. That, and having the brackets be more different would make it perfect for me. I may just modify it myself. Average Mono Code New Roman Courier Prime Code DM Mono Hasklig Office Code Pro Red Hat Mono Sono Ubuntu Mono

[@delibellus]

ubuntu fonts are nice. i went with commit mono nerd font though.

[@HelloThere-xs8ss]

He's very fussy 😂 he's awesome

[@s4uss]

Why some fonts merge like => into one arrow that makes it less intuitive and doesn't look better for code, same with ->. Makes many otherwise good fonts unappealing.

[@Decimation001]

That feature is called font ligatures. You can usually disable it

[@Muskar2]

I'm probably the only one here who still likes Cascadia Code even though I abandoned Microsoft's editors

[@9hoot789]

Ligatures always look really bad for some reason, and on top of not being intuitive, I don't think I could stand ever using them for a long period of time

[@GIANTS2014]

he is literally me

[@aron8999]

Comic Sans Mono gang, where yall at

[@catsolstice]

Narrower for me, please: - Nanum Gothic Coding - Iosevka - M PLUS Code - D2Coding

[@johnwoods978]

Mononoki, fight me.

[@jacobbb-t7i]

correct. no point in using anything else

[@johnwoods978]

that's right

[@AlexAegisOfficial]

Fira is a good font, but it pains me a little that he skipped Iosevka

[@s4uss]

it has collapsing => into an arrow, not very intuitive

[@AlexAegisOfficial]

@@s4uss That's a font ligature and you can turn them off.

[@olbluelips]

@@s4ussligatures ARE intuitive. I use them when I write so I’ll use them when I code!!!

[@romanferguson4032]

i prefer liberation mostly the asterik being up lol. wish the { } were a little more defined compared to ( ) but thats fine

[@rebus_x5313]

lol, sometimes we can all sooooo relate

[@Decimation001]

Consolas Roboto Mono Terminus Proggy

[@ar_xiv]

CMU typewriter all day all day.

[@robolist2277]

Its incredible how I disagreed with every single opinion

[@AtomicPixels]

Bro just download the Vesper theme.

[@Eek_The_Cat]

Consolas anyone?

[@monad_tcp]

Fira Mono wins ! Either Fira or Courier.

[@jasondads9509]

TIL jon blow hates syntax highlighting

[@emmanuelmantilla1465]

Pragmata Pro is the answer

[@_hao1047]

Inconsolata is the only true answer and I don't care what anybody else says!

[@jonathanalonso6492]

May I interest you in "FiraCode Nerd Font", my good sir? We have pretty ligatures!

[@Stabby666]

I swrar to god, Jonathon spends more time fighting with his IDE than he does writing code these days :)

[@animanaut]

what theme are you using? ... angry fruit salad 😂

[@epatelx]

I went for the Comic Sans. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6vZiIuKapijq7M with ligatures.

[@SimGunther]

Mono version of this that works reasonably well or just go straight up comic sans with ligatures?

[@MenkoDany]

Did he really skip Hasklig the GOAT?

[@iamdozerq]

Nah... Good looking fonts and readable fonts are different for me. Colors that i think stylish and good is bad for my brain - "agressive salad" is only option that can drive my mind engaged... So sad actually

[@atom6_]

jetbrains mono ftw.

[@Trezker]

Some of the issues was just spacing, you really should have a tool to adjust that easily. Then only the style of the characters would really matter.

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

Iosevka best font

[@pkop4]

JetBrains Mono is the best

[@eliasrojas5326]

Monaco for me

[@thrwwccnt5845]

it's monaco for me

[@CjqNslXUcM]

They all look the same to me. Are there people out there who genuinely care?

[@2bussy]

yeah people who do this for a living and have to stare at it all day long typically care about what they're going to be staring at what kind of midwit take is this?

[@gmodrules123456789]

Why does this guy waste so much time on stuff like this?

[@2bussy]

not a whole 9 minutes down the drain! the horror!