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Input Mono – A Typeface for Code, from Font Bureau

188 points by netgusto 10y ago

watt 10y ago
Wow, these guys get it. Customize the "il1" just the way you like it, preview with themes (colors), customize up the width, height and weight just the way that looks perfect on your screen.
- Quanttek 10y ago
  Short question: What do the 'i' and 'l's leftmost options do?
  - hellauer 10y ago
    It will pick the first letter for the sans font and the second one for the mono font
RikNieu 10y ago
I like this one more than the Iosevka one.
andrewclunn 10y ago
So many of these fonts can't tell if they want to be a web font for use in a site or a locally installed font for personal use. By going all in on the personal use side, this one gets it right. I'm not even concerned about licensing because I'm just using a customized font for coding in my own editor of choice. Nice job.
jenhsun 10y ago
After I tried so many coder friendly fonts (nerd fonts and others). I only use patched font from https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts/tree/patching-strategy https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts/tree/... because it's the only fonts that can do oh-my-git style https://github.com/arialdomartini/oh-my-git https://github.com/arialdomartini/oh-my-git If you need other code fonts except using oh-my-git, you can take a look at nerd fonts https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
- hashhar 10y ago
  You'll be so amazed when you discover FontConfig fallback. You can tell freetype to use certain fonts as fallbacks if the font you are using doesn't provide a certain glyph. [1]: https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts/blob/master/config/10-symbols.conf https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts/blob/... [2]: https://gist.github.com/hashhar/357e6a8a90663eb4d8c1778b8f3fb03b https://gist.github.com/hashhar/357e6a8a90663eb4d8c1778b8f3f...
  - jenhsun 10y ago
    Awesome indeed. But oh-my-git is shipped with 3 themes only. So I just stick with their themes. Other methods are way too complicate to fix font issues. All I want is just a font that can be imported into font book or fontforge and let my iTerm2/Terminal to use. That's all.
Ezku 10y ago
As a long-time Input Mono user, I have to say I've found it to be an extremely well designed typeface for my programming needs. It does not call attention to itself, but does its job of beautifully nonetheless. After a short acclimation period it simply faded into the background. There was never a time that I was disappointed in its rendering on mac, on either retina or regular displays. Would definitely recommend you give Input Mono a try.
crousto 10y ago
This font is beautiful and has really nice options. But it lets me with a bitter feeling: as a potential user, I won't even consider using it because non-ASCII latin letters are not treated first-class: it's nice that the letter `i` has all these form variants, but they're not applied as soon as a diacritic comes into play (`ï`, `î`, etc.). The same letter with and without a diacritic (eg. `e` and `é`) don't even look the same, letting the user with the feeling that this potential need has not even been considered. EDIT: According to http://input.fontbureau.com/info/ http://input.fontbureau.com/info/ maybe I'm missing something and my criticism only applies to the online demo.
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- netgusto 10y ago
  > only applies to the online demo Probably so; I never had this problem in code editors with this font so far (Atom, Sublime and vim in iterm2)
x0 10y ago
I find this hard to read personally, but I'm always glad people are producing type. And the choices with l and i etc, that thing is such a fantastic idea. Will implement something similar when I finally get around to making a typeface.
peter-m80 10y ago
I love "Deja Vu Sans Mono". Free, simple, clean, beautiful.
s3nnyy 10y ago
How does this in your opinion compare to "source code pro" from adobe?
JoshuaRedmond 10y ago
I use the non-monospace Input Sans for my IDEs and personally absolutely love it. It's not really an issue for me that I'm losing out on vertical alignment, but there really is something to be said for being able to read code more like a sentence with recognizable word shapes.
noir_lord 10y ago
Beautiful but appears to lack programming glyphs, These days I can't live without them, my favourites depending on context are Fira Code and Pragmata Pro. What I'd really love is the Bloomberg font with glyphs, I've even started looking at how to add them! I had to jump through some hoops to get that though.
- juiyout 10y ago
  Are you talking about ligatures?
satysin 10y ago
What I love about Input Mono is the customisation options for download. So nice to be able to live preview and pick all the options I want. Very cool.
gkya 10y ago
Converted. Particularly I chose the round a, the goggly g, the curvier {, the i with serifs on the both sides at the bottom, and the ell with the bottom curve. I really like that the miniscules are higher than the bottom half of the line, makes it more readable with smaller font sizes and from a good distance. One thing is though, use images on your font demo pages, instead of using styled text with that fonts: some users (e.g. me) disable web pages setting fonts. I had to go and revert that setting temporarily to see what this one was like.
myfonj 10y ago
Another nice configurable monospace font is Monoid [0]. It has optional "Programming" ligatures support Like Fira Code. Seems it was Quite overlooked here [1]. [0] https://larsenwork.com/monoid/ https://larsenwork.com/monoid/ [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=monoid%20font&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=monoid%20font&sort=byPopularit...
williamdclt 10y ago
The configuration is very, very, very cool. The only downside I see is that the weight steps are a bit too spaced... the 2nd position is not bold enought, the 3rd is too much. But I suppose you can't satisfy everyone ! I've been very happy with Source Code Pro semibold anyway :)
LoSboccacc 10y ago
The font is nice but I find the letter spacing both too condensed and irregular, i.e. or operator || has no kerning even when not monospaced
W0lf 10y ago
I'm using Operator Mono as my programming font for over a year now and never looked back. For me it's the most beautiful looking font (at least on Linux/Mac). I've tried it once on Windows but the hinting was somehow broken. Im also using the italic monospaced version for code comments and never saw anything similar in any other font . Unfortunately it's not very cheap though https://www.typography.com/fonts/operator/styles/ https://www.typography.com/fonts/operator/styles/
- colemickens 10y ago
  I liked the appearance, but it felt "wrong" to write OSS code using a closed source font. I understand that many will disagree and I'm fine with paying for such things. If nothing else, it meant it would be a special snowflake I'd have to install on my system instead of adding it to the list of packages I just install everywhere.
cusx 10y ago
I wonder if it's possible to add ligatures to this font. It's almost perfect for me.
bartvk 10y ago
Currently I'm using Anka Coder Condensed: https://code.google.com/archive/p/anka-coder-fonts/downloads https://code.google.com/archive/p/anka-coder-fonts/downloads I've tried to get a similar number of lines/length of lines on screen with this font, but wasn't able to.
mark-r 10y ago
The earliest devices I used had a narrower Zero than Oh, so I'm a bit disappointed that this font goes the other way around. I've always thought the slashed zero was ugly, and the dotted zero even uglier. Other than that I really like it.
- andrewshadura 10y ago
  You can configure the font to not use the slashed zero.
thetic 10y ago
I used Input Mono for quite a while, but the '8' and 'B' characters are too easy to confuse.
tzury 10y ago
No matter how many times I tried new fonts, I've always got back to the basics, the old and simple ones that I was using in the first place, till I started using Roboto Mono [1]. This is a free and great font for terminal and editors. I am using it for years now. [1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono
nloa 10y ago
I can really recommend Hack: http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

188 points by netgusto 10y ago

watt 10y ago

Wow, these guys get it. Customize the "il1" just the way you like it, preview with themes (colors), customize up the width, height and weight just the way that looks perfect on your screen.

Quanttek 10y ago
Short question: What do the 'i' and 'l's leftmost options do?
- hellauer 10y ago
  It will pick the first letter for the sans font and the second one for the mono font

RikNieu 10y ago

I like this one more than the Iosevka one.

andrewclunn 10y ago

So many of these fonts can't tell if they want to be a web font for use in a site or a locally installed font for personal use. By going all in on the personal use side, this one gets it right. I'm not even concerned about licensing because I'm just using a customized font for coding in my own editor of choice. Nice job.

jenhsun 10y ago

After I tried so many coder friendly fonts (nerd fonts and others). I only use patched font from https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts/tree/patching-strategy https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts/tree/... because it's the only fonts that can do oh-my-git style https://github.com/arialdomartini/oh-my-git https://github.com/arialdomartini/oh-my-git If you need other code fonts except using oh-my-git, you can take a look at nerd fonts https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

hashhar 10y ago
You'll be so amazed when you discover FontConfig fallback. You can tell freetype to use certain fonts as fallbacks if the font you are using doesn't provide a certain glyph. [1]: https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts/blob/master/config/10-symbols.conf https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts/blob/... [2]: https://gist.github.com/hashhar/357e6a8a90663eb4d8c1778b8f3fb03b https://gist.github.com/hashhar/357e6a8a90663eb4d8c1778b8f3f...
- jenhsun 10y ago
  Awesome indeed. But oh-my-git is shipped with 3 themes only. So I just stick with their themes. Other methods are way too complicate to fix font issues. All I want is just a font that can be imported into font book or fontforge and let my iTerm2/Terminal to use. That's all.

Ezku 10y ago

As a long-time Input Mono user, I have to say I've found it to be an extremely well designed typeface for my programming needs. It does not call attention to itself, but does its job of beautifully nonetheless. After a short acclimation period it simply faded into the background. There was never a time that I was disappointed in its rendering on mac, on either retina or regular displays. Would definitely recommend you give Input Mono a try.

crousto 10y ago

This font is beautiful and has really nice options. But it lets me with a bitter feeling: as a potential user, I won't even consider using it because non-ASCII latin letters are not treated first-class: it's nice that the letter `i` has all these form variants, but they're not applied as soon as a diacritic comes into play (`ï`, `î`, etc.). The same letter with and without a diacritic (eg. `e` and `é`) don't even look the same, letting the user with the feeling that this potential need has not even been considered. EDIT: According to http://input.fontbureau.com/info/ http://input.fontbureau.com/info/ maybe I'm missing something and my criticism only applies to the online demo.

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netgusto 10y ago
> only applies to the online demo Probably so; I never had this problem in code editors with this font so far (Atom, Sublime and vim in iterm2)

x0 10y ago

I find this hard to read personally, but I'm always glad people are producing type. And the choices with l and i etc, that thing is such a fantastic idea. Will implement something similar when I finally get around to making a typeface.

peter-m80 10y ago

I love "Deja Vu Sans Mono". Free, simple, clean, beautiful.

s3nnyy 10y ago

How does this in your opinion compare to "source code pro" from adobe?

JoshuaRedmond 10y ago

I use the non-monospace Input Sans for my IDEs and personally absolutely love it. It's not really an issue for me that I'm losing out on vertical alignment, but there really is something to be said for being able to read code more like a sentence with recognizable word shapes.

noir_lord 10y ago

Beautiful but appears to lack programming glyphs, These days I can't live without them, my favourites depending on context are Fira Code and Pragmata Pro. What I'd really love is the Bloomberg font with glyphs, I've even started looking at how to add them! I had to jump through some hoops to get that though.

juiyout 10y ago
Are you talking about ligatures?

satysin 10y ago

What I love about Input Mono is the customisation options for download. So nice to be able to live preview and pick all the options I want. Very cool.

gkya 10y ago

Converted. Particularly I chose the round a, the goggly g, the curvier {, the i with serifs on the both sides at the bottom, and the ell with the bottom curve. I really like that the miniscules are higher than the bottom half of the line, makes it more readable with smaller font sizes and from a good distance. One thing is though, use images on your font demo pages, instead of using styled text with that fonts: some users (e.g. me) disable web pages setting fonts. I had to go and revert that setting temporarily to see what this one was like.

myfonj 10y ago

Another nice configurable monospace font is Monoid [0]. It has optional "Programming" ligatures support Like Fira Code. Seems it was Quite overlooked here [1]. [0] https://larsenwork.com/monoid/ https://larsenwork.com/monoid/ [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=monoid%20font&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=monoid%20font&sort=byPopularit...

williamdclt 10y ago

The configuration is very, very, very cool. The only downside I see is that the weight steps are a bit too spaced... the 2nd position is not bold enought, the 3rd is too much. But I suppose you can't satisfy everyone ! I've been very happy with Source Code Pro semibold anyway :)

LoSboccacc 10y ago

The font is nice but I find the letter spacing both too condensed and irregular, i.e. or operator || has no kerning even when not monospaced

W0lf 10y ago

I'm using Operator Mono as my programming font for over a year now and never looked back. For me it's the most beautiful looking font (at least on Linux/Mac). I've tried it once on Windows but the hinting was somehow broken. Im also using the italic monospaced version for code comments and never saw anything similar in any other font . Unfortunately it's not very cheap though https://www.typography.com/fonts/operator/styles/ https://www.typography.com/fonts/operator/styles/

colemickens 10y ago
I liked the appearance, but it felt "wrong" to write OSS code using a closed source font. I understand that many will disagree and I'm fine with paying for such things. If nothing else, it meant it would be a special snowflake I'd have to install on my system instead of adding it to the list of packages I just install everywhere.

cusx 10y ago

I wonder if it's possible to add ligatures to this font. It's almost perfect for me.

bartvk 10y ago

Currently I'm using Anka Coder Condensed: https://code.google.com/archive/p/anka-coder-fonts/downloads https://code.google.com/archive/p/anka-coder-fonts/downloads I've tried to get a similar number of lines/length of lines on screen with this font, but wasn't able to.

mark-r 10y ago

The earliest devices I used had a narrower Zero than Oh, so I'm a bit disappointed that this font goes the other way around. I've always thought the slashed zero was ugly, and the dotted zero even uglier. Other than that I really like it.

andrewshadura 10y ago
You can configure the font to not use the slashed zero.

thetic 10y ago

I used Input Mono for quite a while, but the '8' and 'B' characters are too easy to confuse.

tzury 10y ago

No matter how many times I tried new fonts, I've always got back to the basics, the old and simple ones that I was using in the first place, till I started using Roboto Mono [1]. This is a free and great font for terminal and editors. I am using it for years now. [1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono

nloa 10y ago

I can really recommend Hack: http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/