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Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

545 points • by otobrglez • today at 8:27 AM • 224 comments • view on HN

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__mharrison__ • today at 2:20 PM

Have been using this in my terminal, editors, and books for a few years.

Lovely font.

beeforpork • today at 11:33 AM

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.

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allumik • today at 10:12 AM

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.

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amelius • today at 1:18 PM

Great font! Requires some getting-used-to but saves a lot of screen space!

gadrev • today at 9:56 AM

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.

octoberfranklin • today at 4:20 PM

You can pry my PragmataPro license from my cold, dead hands.

matltc • today at 2:39 PM

InconsolataGo is all that is needed

InfiniteQwert • today at 12:42 PM

I know it’s not all that common, but I still really like Gintronic

jbverschoor • today at 1:25 PM

Victor Mono still the best for dense terminals

chiefwilsion • today at 2:30 PM

the font never worked right for me. the variants were not recognized in vscode

7e • today at 2:36 PM

Buy the original PragmataPro and support original creators. The rest are ripoffs, plain and simpls, copied by leeches.

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voidUpdate • today at 11:13 AM

> "glyphs are exactly 1/2em wide"

The M is 1/2 of an M wide?

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Frone125 • today at 2:51 PM

Really awesome. Glad it is being open sourced

sho_hn • today at 10:09 AM

Iosevka Fixed Curly is also my favorite font to code and terminal in.

expelwide • today at 2:16 PM

I prefer Pragmasevka

exwireXI • today at 10:21 AM

I've been using Iosevka(custom) and loved it since then.

phplovesong • today at 3:02 PM

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.

kbesplv • today at 4:00 PM

looks amazing

sgarrity • today at 10:49 AM

What does “quasi-proportional” mean?

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einpoklum • today at 11:14 AM

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.

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neutronenkind • today at 2:33 PM

oh thats a good one!

bowsamic • today at 9:38 AM

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

orphereus • today at 9:24 AM

Does tsoding use this font?

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IceDane • today at 9:23 AM

I occasionally try to find a nicer font than Iosevka, but none of them stick and I always go back.

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HackerThemAll • today at 11:38 AM

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.

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dizhn • today at 10:30 AM

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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