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Versatile typeface for code, from code.

69 mentions on Hacker News by 59 people: 10 stories, 59 comments · first 2015-07-26 · latest 2026-10-14

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  1. …Mono font I've used for years on RedHat/Fedora machines. Nowadays I love and only use Iosevka Slab: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka (3rd and 4th panel in the topmost screenshot)
    comment by 1_player · 2019-01-10 · in OpenBSD: New console font Spleen made default
  2. I prefer Iosevka, which was trending a while ago: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
    comment by dna_polymerase · 2017-09-15 · in Hack – A typeface designed for source code
  3. That is exactly the kind of problem this font wants to solve. Just change the x-height to your taste: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/master/parameters.t...
    comment by Jakob · 2017-07-23 · in Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
  4. Iosevka is also parametric, but fixed for a given TTF, as far as I can tell. Very nice for coding. https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
    comment by nimish · 2017-06-21 · in A parametric version of the Spectral font
  5. …("patel") running on top of node, written by the same author as the font. Really impressive! https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/tree/master/glyphs https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/tree/master/support https://github.com/be5invis/patel
    comment by jcl · 2017-04-01 · in Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
  6. Maybe this is related – from https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases : Spacing: How wide some specific characters are. Default: The default variant with ligatures and semantic full-width glyphs. Terminal: Exact monospaced font without…
    comment by matt4077 · 2017-04-01 · in Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
  7. …for an open source alternative to Pragmata Pro, I found Iosevka[1] to be a great replacement. [1] - https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
    comment by makepanic · 2017-01-29 · in Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X – Part 2
  8. …of PragmataPro, it's my go-to font at the moment. Looks especially nice with OS X font hinting. https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka My command-line for building is: $ make STYLE_COMMON='v-tilde-low v-asterisk-low v-underscore-low' This…
    comment by bitserf · 2016-06-19 · in Space Mono
  9. This looks interesting. What are those .patel files? [1] [1]: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/tree/master/glyphs
    comment by scribu · 2015-07-26 · in Show HN: Iosevka Open Source Programming Typeface