What is your absolute favorite monospaced font?

[howtophil@mastodon.social]

@afreytes You can also convert ebooks/epubs using Calibre and have it as the font for the books (embedded in the epub). Lets me read faster without losing any comprehension. Also helps me speed-read faster... losing about the same level of comprehension because I need to practice speed-reading more

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@wilson This is my current favorite. But I admit I have not used it on any of my Linux machines.

I will correct that soon.

Thank you!

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@howtophil Yes, I feel like this is precisely how I first encountered the whole OpenDyslexic fonttype.

[howtophil@mastodon.social]

@afreytes Also, here's me playing Zork in frotz in an OpenDyslexic Mono in green in the terminal

[isaackuo@spacey.space]

@afreytes Amiga Topaz 11 (NOT Topaz 8, that's ugly). Use with square pixel aspect ratio.

Second favorite is C64 ROM font, with NTSC pixel aspect ratio (7:9 tall pixels).

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@isaackuo I still sometimes configure whatever terminal to have the C64 font and the blue on blue colorway.

I will have to try the Amiga font, which I'm almost sure I have never actually used.

[ralfmaximus@mastodon.social]

@wilson

Ooooh. Is there a version of Hack with slashed zero? That's a deal breaker for me.

@afreytes

[wilson@nfld.me]

@ralfmaximus It looks like there is: https://github.com/ashjoubert/HackSlash

[ralfmaximus@mastodon.social]

@wilson

Oh that is lovely! Thank you.

[aegir@toot.wales]

@afreytes Monaspace! It’s very clever, its monospaced but uses OpenType to set glyph widths so that the overall tone of type looks even. I use it as the text face on my blog.

https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace

[ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@afreytes Code Page 437

[cordelya@toots.cordelya.net]

@afreytes
Julia!

Julia Mono https://juliamono.netlify.app/

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cordelya oh, looks neat, and I've never used it before.

Will definitely try it. Thanks!

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

Thanks everyone for the recommendations!

Except for the Amiga.Topaz.11, I have all of these in my download folder as we speak, and I will be trying them out in the following weeks.

Thanks again, much obliged.

[lepidotos@bitbang.social]

@afreytes Comic Mono. I actually like Comic Sans due in part to fond childhood associations with The Sims, on top of that one Vsauce video, though Comic Mono is definitely noticeably removed from Sans.

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lepidotos I don't hate Comic Sans... or Papyrus!

I feel like both have been bullied, and are perhaps victims of their own success, so to speak.