Fonts

Tell me something - are you happy with how ClearType, the default font renderer in Windows does its job? If you are like me and have to look at your computer screen for the most part of your day, you might prefer something better. Let me show you something really quick. This is how the fonts are rendered on my Windows machine: MacType Font Rendering Example If you would like to achieve similar results, there are only a couple of steps you have to do, and they don’t require any tweaking.

Let’s face it - as developers we look at code 90% of our time we spend in front of the monitor. While there tons of fonts available for our favorite text editors, both free and paid, I have found one font in particular to be extremely enjoyable (and believe me - I’ve tried a few). That is - JetBrains Mono, a free and open source font from the very same company that brought us tools like WebStorm and PyCharm.