Are we in a font renaissance?

Why are there so many new awesome projects like this?

I'm not complaining, just trying to understand what drives the creation of open source fonts.

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.

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.

I love iosevka, but really wish they'd ship a variable font version of it. The argument against it was that variable fonts didn't support as many different parameters as they needed, but that argument fell flat for me. They could still ship variable versions of the fonts with the settings variables don't cover the way they do now

To be very honest: this hurts my eyes

Maybe it's because I'm just too used to DejaVu Sans Mono Book, but I couldn't use this as a daily driver at all.

Luckily we can all have our terminals the way we want :)

I've been using Iosevka for more than 5 years now, it seems odd using anything else. The author is prolific and has made it really easy to build your own customised version. I don't think I'll ever move from using it.

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.

The font looks pretty good, and its compactness seems promising. But with my low screen resolution and high-contrast color scheme, it starts to strain my eyes when reading large blocks of text.

I tried various fonts and settled on Martian Mono VF (https://github.com/evilmartians/mono). At a width of 0.6, it’s quite comfortable to read.

If you are looking for Iosevka with CJK characters, check out Sarasa Gothic.

https://github.com/be5invis/sarasa-gothic

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.