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gocard on Sept 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

It's a serif font, which makes it noisier in my opinion. It's also a relatively thin font, making it more difficult to read.

gocard on Sept 9, 2013 | [–]

Compare the fonts on this page. Courier gets muddied when it's bolded, and feels a tad thin when not, in my opinion:

http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts

The last 3 fonts listed on the page are really strong for programming.

leokun on Sept 9, 2013 | [–]

The l has a serif, but other characters do not.

gocard on Sept 9, 2013 | [–]

On Courier New? Mmmm, a lot of the characters have serifs.

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