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  • 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.
    by TwoFerMaggie
  • 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.

    by GCUMstlyHarmls
  • The default spacing is too narrow for my liking but what's really cool is in the amount of customization that's possible, including lookalikes of some popular paid programming fonts (I'm partial to Iosvmata).

    https://github.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono

    https://github.com/shytikov/pragmasevka

    https://github.com/N-R-K/Iosvmata

    by twalla
  • Related:

    Iosevka typeface for code, from code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785409 - July 2023 (76 comments)

    Iosevka – Versatile typeface for code, from code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30014796 - Jan 2022 (36 comments)

    Iosevka, Version 3.0.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23230929 - May 2020 (40 comments)

    Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14009963 - April 2017 (122 comments)

    Show HN: Iosevka Open Source Programming Typeface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9951989 - July 2015 (27 comments)

    (Reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)

    by dang
  • 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/

    by needfish
  • 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.
    by oefrha
  • 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.

    by jve
  • 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...

    by wartywhoa23

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