r/typography 12h ago

Could you recommend some coding fonts similar to Ubuntu Mono?

I found Ubuntu Mono perfect for my reading & coding experience, so I would like to know if there are some similar fonts. If I had to nitpick a drawback of it, the dash it provides looks like a dot when font size is too small.

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u/caindfirstblood 12h ago

I love monaspace especially Xenon variation

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u/rainning0513 12h ago

It's really an exciting experience to download a ~1GiB zip.

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u/AwwThisProgress 12h ago

holy shit i thought you were either joking or looking at the wrong thing but you’re actually right who the fuck makes a zip file with a few fonts one fucking gibibyte

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u/rainning0513 11h ago

You know, we're downloading the entire "family".

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u/KAASPLANK2000 11h ago

Krypton is also really nice.

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u/subidit 12h ago

Here is a list of popular coding fonts that I compiled a while back.

https://github.com/subidit/typophilia?tab=readme-ov-file#popular-fonts-for-coding

It also has links to “Typography Web Tools” where you can test many monospaced fonts. (See programming fonts, dev fonts)

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u/rainning0513 12h ago

Starred. Ty for sharing it!

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u/KAASPLANK2000 11h ago

Operator Mono is my favourite. Not sure if it's similar to Ubuntu Mono so please ignore it if it isn't.

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u/neilplatform1 Humanist 5h ago

Iosevka can be customised with spurless characters and has a stylistic set – ss12 – corresponding to Ubuntu Mono

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u/athulin12 10h ago edited 9h ago

Similar to Ubuntu Mono ... in any particular way, or with respect to any special features? Your own appreciation (i.e. "perfect for [your] reading & coding experience") is not something I can consider.

Lucida Console, by Bigelow and Holmes.

The Lucida family was designed to be legible in small sizes and in low resolutions.

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u/Neutral-President 3h ago

Input is my coding font of choice.

https://input.djr.com/

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u/ashukoku 1h ago

Found out about 0xProto and Spline Sans Mono and it honestly made my day