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Of his existing incumbent choice, Inconsolata, the author says:

> Unfortunately I am failing to find the words to explain why this pleases my eyes so much; a screenful of it makes me happy.

One theory about why would be that he has been looking at it day in and day out for years, and we tend to think that things we are more familiar with are more beautiful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect

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This describes me. Every couple of years I read an article like this, download a handful of monospaced fonts, and try to use each one for at least an hour. Inevitably, every one of them has some little problem that rubs me the wrong way, and I go back to my old standby: Consolas, the dad jeans of programming fonts. I've been using it for 15 years, and I think I'm doomed to use it for the rest of my career.

Then there are people like me that will use the default font provided by the software they use. I have absolutely no idea what coding font I use (and it varies between IDE anyway).

Similar for me. Sometimes articles like this motivate me to find a new font. I spend some hours deciding on one and then use it. Until I wrote my device (I use windows, so once a year), lose the font, and don't even realize it. This repeats with the next article.

Have you tried Menlo? It's pretty great. It manages to make you look stylish without sacrificing comfort.

Yup, I think the best one https://imgur.com/a/5zPQ09F

However, I had the same reaction to Inconsolata the first time I saw it: "I have to have this".

Inconsolata is also my choice. It's like a monospace font with light serifs, and looks great on high res displays. Very pleasing. In my case, I knew that I liked it shortly after discovering it.

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