Best Unicode Fonts for Programmer

So today I went looking for a font to replace ‘Inconsolata 14’ in my NetBeans IDE because it wasn’t supporting Unicode and I found Best Unicode Fonts for Programmer which lead me to DejaVu Sans Mono.

While I was at it I changed my Konversation font from Ubuntu Mono 12 to DejaVu Sans Mono too.

My friends on #lobsters also recommended:

  • Monaco (Apple font)
  • JetBrains Mono
  • Fira Mono (13pt)
  • Hack
  • IBM Plex Mono