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A journey of font exploration by top self-media producers: Which one do you like best?

In the world of programmers, fonts and terminal themes are always in the spotlight. A few days ago, I shared a post about font degeneration and the response was overwhelming, with millions of views. This makes me deeply aware of everyone’s love and pursuit of fonts. So, today I decided to bring you a summary article to explore the most popular and popular fonts now.

First, let’s popularize a little concept: monospaced fonts. In programming, a monospaced font (also called MONOSPACE) is a font in which each character occupies the same horizontal space. This makes code alignment and indentation easier, improving readability. In some cases, we also need to vertically align different lines of code, and monospaced fonts also make this task easier.

Next, I want to introduce to you a very important website-programming fonts. This website has a very comprehensive selection of 138 popular programming fonts. You can browse and switch themes here, which is very convenient. Through this website, I learned about several special designs of programming fonts.

The first special design is zero style. Because zero and O are easily confused, zero is designed in a special form. For example, in some fonts, zero has a slash or dot in the middle to distinguish it from O.

The second special design is bitmap fonts, also known as pixel style. This font was used in the early days of computer graphics interfaces and is now also used in embedded systems, small devices, and low-resolution display environments. It has a retro, gaming or pixel style feel.

The third special design is lecture, also known as ligature. It combines two or more characters into a single character shape, which improves readability and aesthetic appeal. For example, when using the fire code font, three equal signs are automatically converted into symmetrical forms, and greater than or equal to, less than or equal to, and not equal to also have special forms. But please be careful to ensure that team members understand the meaning of these ligatures to avoid misunderstandings.

Also, let’s talk about Nerd fonts. Nerd font is an enhanced version of a series of open source fonts, which provides various icons and symbols for programming to enhance the programming experience. These fonts often include commonly used icons, folders, arrows, and other symbols. You can check here to see if there is a modified version of the font you like. If your terminal or editor supports Nerd font, the display effect will be richer.

Now, we enter the most popular part: sharing netizens’ favorite fonts. According to the statistics of post comments, the following are the top five fonts (note: everyone has different unique preferences for beauty, this is just a suggestion):

1. Jet Brains Mono : A font developed by the well-known Jet Brains company. It comes with a series of icons. It is open source and completely free. Netizen comments: "Jet Brains Mono is really comfortable!"
2. Fire Code : Hyphenated font that supports a lot of hyphens. Completely open source and free. My review: “I was very surprised when I first saw these hyphens, and I still like them even now.”
3. Source Code Pro : A monospaced font open sourced by the well-known design company Adobe (not Dolby), commonly used in programming, with simple graphic symbols and multiple font weight options. Netizens commented: "There is no Source Code Pro? I disagree!" (Although it was not on the list at first, many people later agreed with this view)
4. Inconsolata : An open source font created by independent designers and now owned by Google. The whole thing gives it an elegant retro feel, and the ligature design is very interesting. Netizen comments: “I have always liked Inconsolata!”
5. IOSA (possibly a typo by the author or the name of a niche font): A very niche but slim and eye-catching font, with simple icons and ligature functions, and supports a high degree of customization. Note: The first letter is I, not L. The display effect is very different from other styles.

In addition to the above five fonts, there are many other excellent programming fonts waiting for everyone to discover and try. Finally, while exploring fonts, don’t forget to read some good books to enrich yourself. For example, I recently read a good book "Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Illustrated". It explains AI algorithms with intuitive and vivid illustrations, which is very suitable for getting started with understanding the basic algorithms of AI.

So, which font is your favorite? Welcome to leave a message and share it with everyone!

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