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My current favorite font for programming is . I use it for VS Code and iTerm.

I use for Sublime Text. And I love the default San Francisco Apple font for use in everything else.

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- Example tools for the Allsorts font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter.

- Online @font-face generator.

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- Fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.

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