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wartywhoa23 • today at 9:50 AM • 6 replies • view on HN

Iosevka, my absolutely most loved font for years!

I've been using a custom version - you can customize the font¹ and build your own ttf (or better yet, ttc) using the build system supplied in the repository².

be5invis, the author of the font, deserves a special mention for creating a whole custom DSL called PatEL (Parametric Type Expression Language) to generate the font programmatically!

Renzhi, if you ever come around to read this, thank you so much for Iosevka, man!

¹https://typeof.net/Iosevka/customizer

²https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/master/doc/custom-b...


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goatking • today at 2:48 PM

I am happy it works for you. I am always surprised how much this font is praised, then I try it, and just completely unreadable for me.

I tried it again, quickly set it up in my terminal the "Iosevka Term" version, switching from Jetbrains Mono, and just don't understand how can people read this.

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mcbuilder • today at 1:36 PM

Same, I went from being die hard Terminus fan to this. Been a long time daily driver.

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nextaccountic • today at 10:12 AM

> ttf (or better yet, ttc)

Why is ttc better?

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brzz • today at 1:00 PM

Would be curious to see your custom version

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JdeBP • today at 10:28 AM

That explains all of the .ptl source files, which I didn't recognize straightaway.

z0ltan • today at 1:36 PM

Testing whether I am shadow-banned. If you see this message, could you just acknowledge the same?

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