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by timeinput 76 days ago
IBM Plex Mono -- I guess no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?
3 comments

I'm on board.

But in general, I think obsessing over the monospace font you use for coding is, ultimately, bike shedding. I've used a lot of different fonts over the year, not because I was trying to find the best one, but because I used the default font of whatever tool I was using at the time, and - guess what - I was fine with it every time.

IBM Plex Mono Ultralight is a joy to look at on a high DPI display.
Do you mean Extralight, I can't seem to find the Ultralight. It's probably just my eyes getting older, but I start to prefer chunkier fonts and 18pt.

Plex is a beautiful font, and one of the few corporate fonts that I actually think works, while being recognizable as being IBM.

I prefer the original, from the 3270 terminals.