<story><title>Show HN: Luculent, a new code/terminal font</title><url>http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nollidge</author><text>Still haven&amp;#x27;t found anything that beats Consolas (at least on Windows machines). Inconsolata comes close, but the strokes are a bit thin and spacing is too crowded.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: OK actually I just tried the hinted TTF version of Inconsolata from Google Fonts [0] and the stroke width is way better. Still crowded - like each glyph takes up juuuuuust a little too much of its bounding rectangle (whatever you would call that).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Inconsolata&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;fonts#UsePlace:use&amp;#x2F;Collection:Inconsol...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chavesn</author><text>I use Mac, not Windows, so I&amp;#x27;m sure I see them rendered quite differently than you, but I prefer Source Code Pro.[1][2]  They are extremely similar and I agree nothing else comes very close.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the lower-case &amp;#x27;i&amp;#x27; that does it for me.[3]&lt;p&gt;Fewer serifs in general allow me to read more quickly, I feel.  &amp;#x27;i&amp;#x27; has 1 to Consolas&amp;#x27; 3, while lower case &amp;#x27;l&amp;#x27; (L) has 2 to Consolas&amp;#x27; 3.&lt;p&gt;One negative is that I much prefer Consolas&amp;#x27; 0-with-slant to Source Code Pro&amp;#x27;s 0-with-dot.&lt;p&gt;By the way, the first link below is from a very cool resource I just found with votes and comparisons of many of the most popular choices: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming-fonts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.slant.co&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;67&amp;#x2F;~what-are-the-best-programming...&lt;/a&gt; (It seems the web has become more informative on this topic than the last time I surveyed all the font options.)&lt;p&gt;Finally, this is what the designer of Source Code Pro, Paul D. Hunt, had to say about the two[2]:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Consolas is narrower than most monospaced fonts at 55% of the Em square, where I stuck with 60% for Source Code. If the narrowness is a top selling point for you, then Consolas is definitely king.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slant.co/topics/67/viewpoints/5/~what-are-the-best-programming-fonts~source-code-pro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.slant.co&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;67&amp;#x2F;viewpoints&amp;#x2F;5&amp;#x2F;~what-are-the-bes...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.adobe.com&amp;#x2F;typblography&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;source-code-pro....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/files/2012/09/Confusable_Chars.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.adobe.com&amp;#x2F;typblography&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;Confusable...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Luculent, a new code/terminal font</title><url>http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nollidge</author><text>Still haven&amp;#x27;t found anything that beats Consolas (at least on Windows machines). Inconsolata comes close, but the strokes are a bit thin and spacing is too crowded.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: OK actually I just tried the hinted TTF version of Inconsolata from Google Fonts [0] and the stroke width is way better. Still crowded - like each glyph takes up juuuuuust a little too much of its bounding rectangle (whatever you would call that).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Inconsolata&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;fonts#UsePlace:use&amp;#x2F;Collection:Inconsol...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RussianCow</author><text>I like Source Code Pro as well, but I agree that nothing beats Consolas. It&amp;#x27;s just such a well-designed font, and works so well on Windows.</text></comment>