Coming from Alacritty, Tmux and Hack, I’m now in WezTerm and trying to find a new Font because Hack isn't working well there.

Hack

I've used hack for the last 4–5 years, and it served me well. :) Sadly, with wezterm I have “glitches”, where for example, a minus - is not rendered correctly. Sometimes it appears, sometimes not, and all in the same file.

https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack

FiraCode

FiraCode is also an old buddy, which I used before hack.

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Monaspace

Monaspace is a good contender for the 1st place but, there are too many options to try. 😅 For all, there was always something that did not fit or felt right. 🤷

https://monaspace.githubnext.com/

Mononoki

Currently, I can't grasp what is wrong with this font because it looks good, but something is off. Maybe because the letters itself are too small?

https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/

JetBrains Mono

My current favorite so far.

Conclusion

JetBrains Mono, Mononoki and Monaspace are in the same position, JetBrains Mono is slightly ahead but as a tiny but. I wish the 3 would merge into 1.

Because I can't decide, I've created a small script which picks a random font out of these 3 every time I start WezTerm or change the config file.

In addition, to see which font is currently on, I've added it to my right status.

local NEW_FONTS = {
	"MonaspiceAg Nerd Font",
	"Mononoki Nerd Font",
	"JetBrainsMono Nerd Font",
}

local font = NEW_FONTS[math.random(#NEW_FONTS)]

wezterm.on("update-status", function(window, pane)
       ...
	window:set_right_status(wezterm.format({
		{ Foreground = { Color = "#949598" } },
		{ Text = font .. " | " },
               ...
	}))
       ...
end)

config.font = wezterm.font(font)

I will test this setup for some weeks and will then decide which one will stick with me for the next, hopefully, years. 😎

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