[explainplease]

I wish I understood why you like Source Code Pro so much. For example, in Emacs, I just switched to Source Code Pro (on "normal" or "medium" weight). With the frame maximized vertically, I could see 60 lines of text, and the letters were small and hard to read, with lots of space between lines. https://i.imgur.com/M1BFDty.png

I then switched back to Hack, at the same size. With the same frame size, I could then see 64 lines, and the letters were all larger and much, much easier to read. https://i.imgur.com/99Hi6kh.png

If I were to set Source Code Pro to a size at which the letters were the same vertical height as Hack, I'd see something like 50-55 lines of text, instead of the 64 I see with Hack.

What am I missing? Am I doing something wrong that makes Source Code Pro look bad?

[yetanotherjosh]

You're not doing anything wrong. That's just how SCP looks. I agree it is not the best programming font and find it a bit odd to hear people saying it's the best, but that's subjectivity for you. Hack is a good one, though I still find it too vertically compressed in terms of line spacing. Input Mono Narrow is what I prefer personally. I get fewer lines per screen as a result, but hey, that's what scrolling is for. And if a chunk of code is too big, that's a cheap signal that it might benefit from refactoring.