Favorite Bitmap Fonts and themes

3 years ago by sujeewa to c/programming

Howdy guys! Just like most of you, I have been in a never ending quest to find the perfect font and the color theme. Did you guys ever find what you were looking for?

I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with what I have right now, But I am very happy with the current font I am using. You can see it in the picture. It's called 'Grey beard'. The color theme is 'Sonokai'.

If you guys used bitmap fonts as well, what are your favorite color themes? Even if you don't use bitmap fonts do you have any good suggestions?

Thank you! And have a wonderful day!

david 5 points 3 years ago

Can't say I'm too fancy these days. If we are including all fonts: Fira-Mono or Consolas for me. I like ligatures visually but can't stand them while coding or in my terminal.

Theme-wise I used to use Monokai or Dracula but these days I am content with the default vscode dark theme. Of course, I've got to have Numix and dark gtk/adawaita for my xfce4 desktop.

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sujeewa 1 point 3 years ago

I tried Fira code and Fira Mono a few months ago, did not like them much. I should give a chance to consolas, I might like it. Oh I see... thanks! Oh you are on XFCE that's cool! I have it installed as well. With XFCE I used a theme called Chicago95, very retro like. I love it. These days I just use DWM, very minimal.

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david 1 point 3 years ago

Chicago95, awesome! I love the retro style. I've never checked out DWM but I used to use i3wm. Loved the power. However, I always keep going back to xfce. It's just the most comfortable for me.

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sujeewa 1 point 3 years ago

Understandable. I too love XFCE I love it more with Chacago95! LOL I used i3 as well! Loved it.

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hallettj 5 points 3 years ago

I'd say I prefer the flexibility of vector fonts. It costs money, but my favorite font is Cartograph CF. I chose it because of the combination of a cursive-style italic variant, and programming ligatures.

Another font that has both of those features rendered with a different style is Victor Mono. The cursive text in Victor is semi-connected which I enjoy. This one is free, but the author accepts donations to support the work.

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sujeewa 2 points 3 years ago

I have heard good things about Cartograph. For a good font I would say spending some money is a good investment. Victor Mono was not my cup of tea though. Thank you for the suggestions!

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Panda 4 points 3 years ago

I really like the Jetbrains Mono font!

Aa for a theme, I set up my Windows theme so it uses a dark theme at X time and a light theme at X time using the task scheduler. I now have Rider set up so it automatically uses the system theme (dark/light) and I am currently using the Solarized themes (I think both for light and dark themes though I've been switching my dark theme around a lot to try and find the perfect one so I'm not 100% sure XD). It automatically switches between the two depending on the time of day.

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sujeewa 1 point 3 years ago

Huh that's really cool! I tried installing solarized on my neovim. With typescript and rust it did not look very appealing to me. I suspect it was a little different from the solarized theme I had on VSCode, which looked very nice. I should try to find some better alternatives.

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Panda 1 point 3 years ago

I must say I don't like Solarized in all IDEs. It's been around for a while and I never really got myself to like it until now.

There are some themes I really like in Visual Studio Code but really don't like in Rider.

I must say I spent way too much time last week trying to find a good theme to switch to. I like to change things up every once in a while just to make things look fresh and new again. For some reason, if I'm stuck, I find that it really helps (is that silly? Haha).

By the way, if you want to know to automatically set up the light/dark mode in Windows, I used this link to set it up. I then made sure any applications I automatically wanted to switch themes were set to 'System theme' or 'OS theme' or something like that.

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sujeewa 2 points 3 years ago

Very interesting! Thank yo so much. Right now I am on Linux, but sounds cool.

Haha I have the same habit. Every once in a while I get the urge to change themes to make things look fresh. These couple of days it took a weird turn, now I'm changing themes + fonts lol!

Good luck with finding a good theme. I haven't used Rider but Sonokai, tokyonight, rose pine, falcon, gruvbox-material, oxocarbon are some good themes I found.

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Panda 1 point 3 years ago

You're welcome! And you good luck as well! Thank you for the suggestions! I tried gruvbox for a bit and it looks really nice. Haven't heard of the Rose Pine or Falcon ones so I'll be sure to check those out as well!

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beejjorgensen 3 points 3 years ago

A few retro bitmap fonts (converted to TTF or OTF):

PC: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ (tons of fonts)
Commodore 64: http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/c64/ (and others in the family)
Osborne I: https://beej.us/fonts/Osborne1.ttf

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sujeewa 1 point 3 years ago

Holy moly! Thank you so much! I am extremely grateful!

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