Is it possible to install the SF Mono font, which I understand is standard in Apple's Xcode app, on a Windows machine? (Windows 10 in my case). It is a very pretty font, and it looks to me like it solves more of the programming font problems than any other font that I have used.
In particular, it not only addresses the usual programming font issues -- readable in smaller sizes, horizontally compact, distinguishing capital Os from zeros, 1-I-l, and so forth, it also does a better job of allowing easy discrimination of case. Many programming fonts sacrifice a good bit of ease of case distinction in the course of achieving legibility at smaller size. This is of particular importance to me as I do most of my programming work in R, or less often C++, both of which case sensitive.
All the distributions of the font I have found are in the form of Apple installation files (.pkg), which I do not know how to use on a Windows machine. Is it possible to install the font on a windows machine without overkill solutions like iOS emulation? If so, how does one go about it? Alternatively, is there a good look-alike font, that achieves the same compactness and coding-related improvements over Helvetica Neue, while being available as a .ttf or some other more-accessible format?
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Sure. There's a github repo with all the font files in .otf format. Perfectly compatible with Windows.
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