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For me nothing can dethrone Inconsolata[0], there's just something elegant about it that I haven't found in other fonts I've tried. Been using it for almost ten years now. Also I don't like ligatures...

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata

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> Also I don't like ligatures...

Ligatures are optional, so you don’t have to let the existence of those glyphs stop you from using an otherwise-better(-for-you) typeface. Additionally, in VSCode at least, there are extensions that give you even more contextual control.

For Intellij IDEs, there's the plugin Ligatures Limited.

Was at the same camp but when I moved to retina screens source code pro seemed a bit better to me.

Don’t ask why. It just feels right lol.

I don't like fonts where the zero has a dot (or nothing). I need to have that slash in my zeroes.

This. I was late to trying it out but just started with it last week and love it. Right up there with Menlo for me.

I really like Inconsolata except for one letter. The “g” just looks wrong to me, and it puts me right off!

Funnily enough I think recently I had to do something in Rider (the IDE) and everywhere in the file where I had a "g" it got cut off somewhere on the last 1/3 of the letter. It was a visual bug that disappeared after restart, but it also made me notice the "g" in a bit more detail. I attribute this to the fact that of all the Latin letters lowercase "g" is by far.. should I say "fanciest"? I can see how the loop tail variation might seem out of place.

I really like using Cascadia Code PL Nerd Font.

What do most people use?

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