Pretty sure OP isn't a bot, they've never even posted a link, and bots don't make threads like this.
Anyways, my favorite font is probably Nunito or something similar. Just a normal, easy to read font. Fancy stuff is lost on me.
"bots don't make threads like this" That's exactly what it wants you to think. Also, many bots wait weeks or even months before editing in links.
OP registered 9 months ago. Let's take a look at his history on the site:
Runs: No runs whatsoever.
Posts:
- 1st post asks what payment system people used.
- 2nd post replies to a "Credit problems" thread, thanking for the site suggested.
- 3rd post talks about a server optimization tool (which is surprisingly on topic for that thread, but it's in a thread where OP was deleted, so possibly also a bot)
- 4th post talks about a casino, doing an advertisement of sorts with the name of the thread.
- 5th post talks about favorite fonts.
And that's all of it. None of his posts are even remotely related to speedrunning, with 3/5 of them having a common denominator in money. Now, you could either think this is a very confused person that comes to a speedrunning site only for financial advice or, my preferred explanation, that this is a bot.
OP is certainly welcome to prove me wrong though.
Getting back on topic, I think the reason people usually don't dabble on other alternative fonts can usually just be traced back to using the path of least resistance: people are more inclined to use a font that already comes installed with their OS of choice rather than go out of their way to install a new one. Bonus points if the font's actually the one selected by default when they're writing. If suddenly we were to get Windows 11 and it came with a different set of fonts, you'll probably get a few angry posts throughout the internet here and there, but I think a lot of people just wouldn't care much about it and use whatever's there.
In the case of coding in particular though, I think the reason devs don't use different styles is just to do with maintaining a standard I guess. If you want to show some line of code on your screen to a co-worker, it'll probably be easier to read if you use the same font as him rather than if you use a different custom font. I'm not saying the custom font will be inherently harder to read, but rather that if you use the same font he'll find it easy due to being accustomed to it. With quarantine this is probably less common due to home office and whatnot, but once you've begun using a font there's not much incentive to change either.
[quote=MrMonsh]OP is certainly welcome to prove me wrong though.[/quote] It's a little late for that...
Anyway, I still have to find more preferred fonts for myself but I've found Segoe UI to be good in a large set of circumstances, it's a pretty classy sans-serif font. (Microsoft uses it in its products and branding, if it's recognizable.) Hard to go wrong with Times New Roman or Helvetica, unless you tire of popular things.