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Episode 170: Finding the Right Coding Font for Programming in Python

The Real Python Podcast

Sep 01, 2023 1h 5m

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What should you consider when picking a font for coding in Python? What characters and their respective glyphs should you check before making your decision? This week on the show, we talk with Real Python author and core team member Philipp Acsany about his recent article, Choosing the Best Coding Font for Programming.

Philipp shares some of his background as a font engineer and graphic designer. We talk about how font design tools were his introduction to programming in Python.

We discuss how the frequent use of underscores, at signs, parentheses, and asterisks in Python’s syntax should affect your decision. Philipp’s tutorial provides several resources to help you find a monospace font that fits your coding requirements.

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Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:32 – Previous podcast appearances
00:03:18 – Programming-environment fussiness and monospace fonts
00:07:29 – Researching the tutorial and curating the collection
00:10:51 – Philipp’s background
00:18:07 – Differentiating characters
00:21:37 – Monospace, typewriters, and alignment
00:25:08 – Character sets to study
00:32:38 – The comma and the period
00:37:04 – Video Course Spotlight
00:38:30 – Python’s use in font development
00:42:48 – Different fonts for different languages
00:49:27 – Non-English comments
00:55:40 – Our font choices
00:59:00 – What are you excited about in the world of Python?
01:01:35 – What do you want to learn next?
01:03:41 – Where can people follow your work online?
01:04:38 – Thanks and goodbye

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