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Recommended Fonts for Programming | Free Fonts for Better Visibility and Development Efficiency

Introducing ideal programming fonts for coding such as JetBrains Mono, HackGen, Ricty Diminished, Cica, and Migu. Improve editor visibility and boost your development efficiency.

JetBrains Mono

An open-source programming font provided by JetBrains.

Download: https://www.jetbrains.com/ja-jp/lp/mono/

HackGen

HackGen is a programming font that combines the English programming font Hack with Genjyuu Gothic, a derivative of Source Han Sans.

Download: https://github.com/yuru7/HackGen/releases

Ricty Diminished

Ricty Diminished is a sister font to Ricty. Instead of Inconsolata and Migu 1M, it is synthesized using Inconsolata and Circle M+ 1m with the Ricty generation script. Since it does not include IPA Gothic glyphs, the number of available kanji glyphs is limited, but in exchange, it can be distributed under the SIL Open Font License.

Download: https://rictyfonts.github.io/diminished

Cica

It uses Hack + DejaVu Sans Mono for alphanumeric characters and symbols. For other characters, it uses Rounded Mgen+. It is a programming font designed for coding.

Download: https://github.com/miiton/Cica/releases

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Migu

A synthesized font of M+ and IPA.

Download: https://itouhiro.github.io/mixfont-mplus-ipa/migu/

Osaka

A font that allows you to use Osaka, a standard Mac OS font, on Windows.

Download: http://ifs.nog.cc/osakattf.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

PlemolJP

A programming font that combines IBM’s open-source Japanese font IBM Plex Sans JP with IBM Plex Mono, also from IBM’s Plex series.

Download: https://github.com/yuru7/PlemolJP/releases