Favourite monospaced font for coding, do people have such a thing?

31 December 2024

Code is code, what difference does the font you choose in whatever app you use for coding possibly make? As long as the code works as intended, what does appearance have to do with it?

But the conversation I found on the topic — which in fact started months ago — actually relates to a writer’s favourite font for writing — as in copy, not code — which is kind of intriguing.

Intriguing, because I’ve never given the matter the slightest thought. Obviously on my website I have chosen a particular display font, but when it comes to drafting my posts, no, I pretty much use one of the fonts the app offers.

These fonts are certainly not monospaced fonts (for all their virtues), which is where the discussion seemed to later turn. I write all my posts, together with the necessary HTML tags, on a word processing app, and when ready, copy and paste the text into WordPress.

I know I’m missing something using this process, because I read about the way other people use (what sounds like) a number of apps, before their blog post drafts are fed into their blog publishing software. But when it comes to a favourite font for drafting, whatever that might be, there isn’t one.