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Just pay the man for PragmataPro[1] and turn off anti-aliasing in Emacs and iTerm. The font is legible and beautiful at every size on any screen.

[1]: https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/




I'm a big fan of this font, I use it every day and have never regretted the purchase. Unfortunately the OP noted they didn't like Iosevka, which I think is pretty visually similar.


Pragmata Pro is a huge influence on Iosevka, the author has admitted it. What makes Pragmata Pro work, afaict (since I've yet to actually buy the damned thing), is it is insanely well hinted... this is the one thing Iosevka will never have (it depends on ttfautohint, which although acceptable, will never be good as a talented font hinter producing his art).

Having tried, and evaluated, basically every mono font in existence worth using here, I may end up just buying Pragmata Pro.

My current daily driver is Input, and not set as a compressed or condensed style. Input is only hinted for the weights Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold, for normal width; the other three more narrow widths are not hinted at any weight. At the sizes I prefer text, Input requires the hinting supplied by the author.


I love PragmataPro. It's not just the look, but also the character support and many of its design features. I work with linguists in academia and get to work on a lot of plain text data - transcriptions and what not. PragmataPro's IPA support is something I make use of every, single day, not just for coding. If I had to pick a single font to use for anything and everything for the rest of my life, this would be it - including reading.


I finally bought it a month ago after years of "trial". It's an expense that student me would never had approved, but now I'm glad to give back because the font makes me so happy.




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