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  oefrha
  IMO a font specimen site may be the worst place to use font-display: swap. Was wondering why I was looking at what seemed indistinguishable from Courier, turns out what I saw was exactly Courier.
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  wartywhoa23
  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/customizer²https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/master/doc/custom-b...
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  jve
  Is it only me but I really dislike "Code Ligations"? I have to mark some chars to count how many consecutive "=" simbols there are... or \/ looking like V without having other chars near it to distinguish. Having to copy paste diamond shape to find out it is <>. arrows with squiggly tails, /> being ugly, <. having dot in the middle...That could be the maximum I'd like out of font to have "proper" greater/less-equal sign.
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  Daneel_
  I know it's a ridiculous thing to say, but the fact that I can customise the font so well on the website only to then not be able to download it like that is a crime. I don't want to muck about with npm just to build a font - do it on the site! /rant
• GCUMstlyHarmls
  First time I used Iosevka I felt really nauseated, kind of like getting motion sickness, it was a really bizarre experience for a font to give me. I was on a smaller screen though and getting some more characters in without getting tiny was actually a selling point, so I gave it another go and eventually got over the feeling.Now (after ... gosh, 6, 7, 8? years probably) I love it, use it everywhere and other monospace font feels super w i d e and weird.
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  joarv0249nw
  Why is it called sans-serif when there is serif on i j etc?
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  TwoFerMaggie
  Have been using it for a couple years. Before that I was using Fira Code/Mono which was also fantastic. However, once I got used to the condensed Iosevka, all the other fonts just felt loose and not space efficient enough in my IDE and terminal.
• miqkt
  My go-to monospace font in everything I use nowadays. Way back, it used to be JetBrains Mono. When I decided to give Iosevka a try, I actually started with the expanded variant, because I wasn't accustomed to the narrow jump. Took a while, but at some point I took that jump back to the default and it's stuck. Thanks for your efforts on this font Renzhi!
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  Schlagbohrer
  Their examples of their font made me fall in love with an alternative, IBM Plex, that they showed. IBM Plex shows more of their example assembly code than any of the other three, and quite clearly.
• jbverschoor
  Victor Mono still the best for dense terminals
• amelius
  Great font! Requires some getting-used-to but saves a lot of screen space!
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  needfish
  I have a custom build of this font, use it everywhere now. One thing is that the width by default is too compact and the extended is too wide for my taste. Upon searching I found somebody's build that has width 576. I don't know why that number, but I used it in my current builds and it turns out pretty much perfect for terminal use for me, just wide enough.The hookiest tail for lowercase l man, love it.Even for my own website, with some tighter tracking and it can work okay as a text font.Another great customizable font is Maple Mono [0][0] https://font.subf.dev/en/
• durdn
  A friend pointed me to a derivative of Iosevka that tries to mimic the historical (and commercially licensed) Pragmata Pro and the result is an insanely great font I've migrated to recently: https://github.com/shytikov/pragmasevka
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  cik
  I have been using this font for 3 years now. I can't, and won't get off it. I use it wherever I can - heck there's an Arch package! I'm pleasantly surprised by how much something this simple makes me happy. Legitimately a font has added to my life.
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  climech
  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.
• starquake
  The default font since GNOME 48 is Adwaita Sans (a modified Inter with different l's and I's) and for monospace it is Adwaita Mono (a modified Iosevka.)I like it a lot!
• exceptione
  Wish code editors would support different fonts per semantic region. Jetbrains, if you are reading this, implement this: <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-29552/Allow-differ...>.The heading of Iosevka doesn't do the font right, my first thought was that this would be yet another soulless sans-serif. But it has tons of interesting variants. Hats of to Iosevka Etoile. See also <https://monaspace.githubnext.com> if you like big versatile font families.
• makizar
  I’ve used Iosevka for years but recently switched to Commit Mono [0]. It hits all the right spots for me, is customizable, and does smart kerning which is neat.[0] https://commitmono.com/
• weinzierl
  It also has many weights. In my opinion it's one of the best monospaced fonts where you actually can use weight as an additional dimension in syntax highlighting.
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  nitinreddy88
  Once we use Berkeley mono font, we will never switch to another one :)Whenever font discussions come up, I will try everyones suggestions to find better than what I have, and always came back to Berkeley. Its almost near perfect for coding!
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  rf15
  Good to know that the age old tradition of calling a font with serifs sans-serif is well alive and kicking.The reason here is that the basic glyph shape is that of a sans-serif, but still got serifs added afterwards. That doesn't stop it from diluting the meaning of the term.
• JdeBP
  It is interesting that it differentiates between oblique and italic, something that not many fonts aimed at the monospace crowd do, in both the English and Cyrillic alphabets. The list of variants for the letter k is longer than I expected.Alas, it is oblong, not square.And 7 thousand-odd code points is not as large a range as it used to be a couple of decades ago. That said, it does have MouseText, the 7-segment LED digits, and suchlike from the Supplementary Plane 1.
• InfiniteQwert
  I know it’s not all that common, but I still really like Gintronic
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• jwr
  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!
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  beeforpork
  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.
• fenprace
  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.
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  allumik
  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.
• gadrev
  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.
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  voidUpdate
  > "glyphs are exactly 1/2em wide"The M is 1/2 of an M wide?
• sho_hn
  Iosevka Fixed Curly is also my favorite font to code and terminal in.
• exwireXI
  I've been using Iosevka(custom) and loved it since then.
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  sgarrity
  What does “quasi-proportional” mean?
• HackerThemAll
  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.
• bowsamic
  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
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  orphereus
  Does tsoding use this font?
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  IceDane
  I occasionally try to find a nicer font than Iosevka, but none of them stick and I always go back.
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  einpoklum
  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.
• dizhn
  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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