programmingfonts

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I'd like to request that you add some more characters to the "similar" string. For example, although I mostly like B612 Mono, I will not use it because of the similarity of different brackets: square brackets and parentheses are much too alike. Proposed additions, broken across several lines <([{}])>

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-_= 8%&

`"' # Might need to be in a comment not a string literal

There are additional suggestions at https://realpython.com/coding-font/#differentiation

Gotcha, some good suggestions in there!

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There are some fonts at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monospaced_typefaces that you don't have, such as Wumpus Mono.

Thanks! Somehow there seem to be a few in there I didn’t know about yet! 😆

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A fairly pretty courier mono font has shown up on Hacker News. Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts. it has a dedicated code variant. It be worth a look?

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll add it ASAP!

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The good folks at the Braille Institute have released a new monospace version of their previously only-sans-serif font Atkinson Hyperlegible. Maybe every single monospace font isn't a programming font, but I thought I'd mention it.

That’s really cool, thanks for letting me know!

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UnifontEX now has Unicode 15.1 support, so maybe you should update the copy in your repo?

Done ✅ Thanks for the update!

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Would you consider curating a list of sans fonts that follow "A Guide to Understanding What Makes a Typeface Accessible"? I find that I spend as much time in technical writing as I do in programming, and I need as many sans fonts for that as I do mono fonts. Thanks for the great work you do!

That would be a massive undertaking. This article explains it well enough. I can’t though, in a practical sense, test all ~100+ mono fonts on the website against their checklist, and that still ignores several other aspects of accessibility. The reader needs to be included in this: what’s accessible to a novice reader impairs advanced readers. And to be sure about anything you need to test with real people. This is a complex and fascinating field, but entirely out of scope of the website. But the site should help you review fonts for accessibility, and hopefully we can make you find the perfect font for your use cases that way.

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I did an anonymous ask, but since it seems a bit out of the blue I'm using my account. Could you add UnifontEX (my heavy improvement of GNU Unifont) to the list?

Hey, nice work! It has been added 👍🏻

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Is it possible to add more filters to the website's list of fonts? I think it'd be handy to be able to filter (or sort) by year, for example.

Hey, that's a great idea! Different kinds of sorting would definitely be handy. 👍🏻

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Can you add commitmono?

YES WE CAN!

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Iosevka's been updated! It looks far better than before and has stylistic sets imitating many other popular programming fonts. There's also a slab serif version.

Thanks! Updated ✅

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Can you add also this font please (heterodox mono), I would paste the link but this form wont allow it, so it is on github: at hckiang/font-new-heterodox-mono

Already done!

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Hi, just wondering why gintronic font at is part of your 'programming fonts' list whilst say pragmata font at is not listed ... I had initially thought that the fonts listed are 'free' (at least as in beer) but gintronic does not appear to be free in any sense of the word? and if so, obviously other fonts would also then fall into the candidacy of being displayed on your site? (sorry I would have included links to the above fonts but this form does not allow for them to be present)

Fonts featured on the site don’t need to be free. However the license must support embedding on the site, or an agreement has to be made with the author of the font. Sometimes I reach out to an author, or they contact me. So lots more sites could be added, but I don’t typically go out of my way to try to work something out for commercial fonts.

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Any chance of adding Spleen into the mix? It's the default font on OpenBSD these days, and I'd like to see how it compares.

Oh that’s a good one, bitmap fonts are cool. I’ll see what I can do!

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Several new fonts to take a look at on Google Fonts: DM Mono, Red Hat Mono, Azeret, Xanh. Other new fonts include Drafting* Mono, lotion, MonoLisa. Thanks for all the hard work you've put into this site.

This is fantastic! Thanks for the heads up on all these new (to me!) fonts :) 

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Hi! Thanks for this awesome resource. May I ask you to add SF Mono and Menlo to the collection? Nate

I can’t sadly, their licenses won’t allow it.

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Hi! Thanks for this awesome resource. May I ask you to add Monoflow to the collection?

Thanks for the heads up! I’ll be adding it as soon as I can!

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I could not figure out from the website which version of Hermit you have. I downloaded it from your GitHub page, and opening it in Font Manager, I see that it is version 1.21. Version 2.0 is available, so you might want to update. It would also be nice if the font list displayed the version of the fonts.

I don’t really track versions of fonts, most fonts aren’t updated regularly (if at all) in significant ways you might see on this site. Thanks for the heads-up for Hermit! I’ll update it ASAP 🏎