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There are a number of very nice monospace typefaces that have lots of character variants so you can essentially pick and choose different letter styles (dotted, crossed or regular zeros, etc).

I personally love Fira Code with its ligatures.



I love Fira Code. I suspect Iosevka is the winner when it comes to customization though:

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

You can basically mimic features of almost any other big name among monospace fonts.

The only downside I can think of is that it updates really often and the website doesn't have a way to save your customizations, so upgrading is a drag.

Given that it's a free font I'm not complaining though.


Yes, that's another great one!


I recently discovered Fira code through https://www.codingfont.com/. I played with font names off, and Fira code won two times in a row :) I'm still amazed at how pleasant it looks on my screen.


Oh, I didn't know of https://www.codingfont.com/, the tournament style competition is pretty cool. I also like that you can turn off the labels.

I've used Fira Code for years and tried to find an alternative on https://www.programmingfonts.org/ but it's very difficult comparing so many different options at once.




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