Fonts

Last updated Mar 2, 2025 by Simon Späti

I have a love for nice fonts.

# Reading and Writing Fonts

Atkinson Hyperlegible (mentioned Your favourite fonts choice and why? thread - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum )
- also on HK: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41550211
iA Writer Quattro
Inter - Default of Obsidian and used also at Airbyte website
Fonts - DYSLEXIA which makes reading easier for people with problems (from Tobias Ziegler (Schäuble))
Piazzolla, serif; from How to treat monospace alike fonts in a tech blog? - Pimp my Type
- Piazzolla Type System
Gentium Book Basic, serif: Discovered on Why Write?, beautiful .
Also beautiful: SN Pro ( origin)
UxumGrotesque, sans-serif ( origin)

Atkinson Hyperlegible vs Piazzolla:

Updated fonts in Obsidian:

# Programming Fonts

Here are some tips for programming (from RW 15 Best Programming Fonts for Better Coding):

Clear and easy-to-read characters to reduce eye strain when spending hours looking at hundreds of lines of code.
Makes a clear distinction between commonly-confused characters such as the letter “O” and the number “0” or the lowercase “L” and the number “1”.
Ligatures or extra whitespace for commonly-used symbols in popular programming languages – not for everyone, but others love it.
Fonts with multiple variations on how certain characters are handled are great, so you can pick and choose exactly the version you prefer.

Testing out fonts: Programming Fonts - Test Drive.

# Open Source Favorites

Iosevka - My current one, 14.7k start on GitHub 😳
- The two quasi-proportional families: Iosevka Aile, and Iosevka Etoile, are made for documents and writing. They provide more variety on character widths, including a slightly wider letter w and m, and narrower i and l.
Source Code Pro for Powerline - Adobe open source
Cascadia Code - default font for the Windows Terminal and Visual Studio
Anonymous Pro for Powerline - I like
- Four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic.
- Fixed width design.
- Various computer keyboard symbols.
- DOS box-drawing characters.
- Extended language support for most Latin-based Western and Central European languages, as well as Greek and Cyrillic.
Zed Mono looks nice too: GitHub - zed-industries/zed-fonts: The Zed Mono and Sans typefaces, custom built from Iosevka Origin

Some comparisons while testing:

A nice summary that has similar preferences that are similar to mine:

Some of my favourite monospace / coding fonts Link

Cascadia Code 81 ← What I use in my terminal

JetBrains Mono 63 ← What I use in VS Code and other editors

Iosevka 128 ← Fantastically comprehensive and space efficient

Anonymous Pro 57 ← A classic, but no ligatures