alt Hacker NewsIosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font
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11 years old. Congratulations!
This is the best font I have ever found, and I have tried a lot of them over the years. The ability to specify your own variations and generate your own fonts is really useful. I am a big fan of the dotted zero, for example.
The readability is excellent, and this font replaced everything else that I tried before. Highly recommended!
Although this may not apply to many, Iosevka is one of the few monospace fonts with excellent support for polytonic Greek.
I ve been using iosevka for 5+ years. Iosevka Extended is my go-t mono font. It's just clean and cool.
One thing I definitely love is it's easy to access. It has been packed for many package managers. I can just brew install or yay -S to get it.
Nice that it's specifically designed to be narrow columns, so you can fit more on screen. Will try this for coding.
Used Iosevka for a while, now fully on Aporetic for everything monospace. Something about the thin and tall serif just clicks with me, and Aporetic seemed to work better size wise for my terminals and GUIs.
Beautiful font! Only problem is people are not writing code by hand anymore.
Is there a PDF specimen? I disable font substitution in my browser, but I do want to have a peek. But not a peek that requires reconfiguring my browser.
This is such a good font. I like how the process used to make it takes inspiration from Donald Knuth's Metafont.
As a reminder, my manifesto: https://github.com/Diablo-D3/dotfiles/blob/master/fontsizes....
The part you'd all be interested is the table at the bottom: ideal font size to get the most out of your favorite code font, but also ordered by font size (for maximum code density on screen while still being readable).
Even though vector fonts are, well, vectors and not bitmaps, they often are fuzzy or misshapen at some sizes. The only way to objectively judge a font is to view it at it's best. Some fonts are objectively bad.
Iosevka is my daily driver, but not the most dense font on the list.
How did I not know this until today? it's so beautiful, thanks so much!
On iOS, Firefox the text on the page overlaps in places.
Nice one. I used it for some years, mostly in urxvt.
Some time ago I switched to wayland/sway/foot, and I'm on 0xProtoNerdFont, quite pleasant as well.
Have been using this in my terminal, editors, and books for a few years.
Lovely font.
Great font! Requires some getting-used-to but saves a lot of screen space!
Truly the GOAT font. Nothing else compares.
Kids, gather 'round, story time: my first computer when I was a kid was a communist hacky clone of a ZX Spectrum; and at one point I managed to install CP/M on it (I had no idea at the time what an OS was, I just intuit that it was a 'big deal'); and for whatever reason, this OS used a very tall and narrow font and I loved it sooo much that ever since then, I associate the tall narrow fonts with the halcyon time of excitement and exploration of those innocent days.
I put Iosevka everywhere, not only in text editors but browsers and other desktop apps. It's one of the first things to do on a fresh machine. Thank you very much, @be5invis!
I know it’s not all that common, but I still really like Gintronic
> "glyphs are exactly 1/2em wide"
The M is 1/2 of an M wide?
Victor Mono still the best for dense terminals
It's a very good font for me because I care very much about density. Iosevka is by far the highest horizontal density I've ever used. However I have usually fallen back to Consolas, which IMHO the greatest monospace font ever made. The density is very high and it is very readable. There is no doubt that Iosevka is more attractive, but for some reason Consolas "feels" better at similar density.
Iosevka Fixed Curly is also my favorite font to code and terminal in.
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InconsolataGo is all that is needed
I've been using Iosevka(custom) and loved it since then.
the font never worked right for me. the variants were not recognized in vscode
Buy the original PragmataPro and support original creators. The rest are ripoffs, plain and simpls, copied by leeches.
This set of fonts takes up 2.4 GB (yes, that's Giga, not Mega) bytes when you download the release. Each one is over 50 MB in size.
Iosevka has supplanted Envy Code R as my favorite monospace editor font.
I prefer Pragmasevka
Really awesome. Glad it is being open sourced
What does it mean for a font (or typeface) to be "quasi‑proportional"?
Also, whoever said that fonts intended for a terminal need to be narrower? Some terminals have narrower chars, some wider. And terminal emulators often allow for multiple char aspect ratios - e.g. via bitmap fonts of different aspect ratio.
Anyway, the typeface looks interesting, but I would have liked for the creators to compare and contrast it with existing (and popular) monospace / terminal-oriented typefaces.
You can pry my PragmataPro license from my cold, dead hands.
I felt like my eyes hurt when I tried this font. It's hard for me to switch away from the standard width monospace fonts. At the moment I use Commit Mono. Extra horizontal space might be nice but it's not worth risking any discomfort
I occasionally try to find a nicer font than Iosevka, but none of them stick and I always go back.
Was a user, its a really nice font. Then i found Berkeley Mono, that has been the daily deiver for the past 5-6 years.
oh thats a good one!
Half a gig for a single variant of this font? No, thank you. That just doesn't make any sense. Perform some minification and/or publish just TTF or OTF.
looks amazing
It's a google score thing right. That the first font that loads is not their font on a font page?
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I remember falling in love with PragmataPro many years ago, I really like narrow fonts, but I couldn’t afford it (I don’t remember how much it was at the time but it was something insane, at least for my wallet). Then Iosevka entered the scene, and I never looked back. Really awesome project, especially the customization part.