Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I really can't stand any of the fonts I've found and tried. Every single one of them has an offensive appearance.

The only font I can find that is both consistently readable at small sizes and doesn't drive me stark raving mad with Lovecraftian shapes is Inconsolata-g. And I hate Inconsolata-g.

Consolas is simply offensive, and Proggy has got to be the ugliest thing I have seen in my life.

Clean is moderately tolerable (and marginally better than Inconsolata-g on most entities) despite being Lovecraftian, but it has so many broken characters and interferes so badly with my graphics driver (terminals on Linux under some versions of the `nvidia` driver behave very badly when using a bitmap font), that I can't use it.

I'm still looking for a font that doesn't make me want to raze several small towns.



Consider applying for YC's Winter 2027 batch! Applications are open till November 2.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: