Fonts

My current favorite font for programming is JetBrains Mono. I use it for VS Code and iTerm.

I use Fira Code for Sublime Text. And I love the default San Francisco Apple font for use in everything else.

Interesting fonts

• Inconsolata

• Inter - Typeface specially designed for user interfaces with focus on high legibility of small-to-medium sized text on computer screens.

• Public Sans - Strong, neutral, principles-driven, open source typeface for text or display.

• Cascadia Code - Fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.

• Leon Sans - Geometric sans-serif typeface made with code in 2019 by Jongmin Kim.

• Codeface - Typefaces for source code beautification.

• JetBrains Mono - Typeface for Developers. (HN) (Code) (Lobsters)

• Iosevka - Slender typeface for code, from code. (HN) (Web)

• Victor Mono (Code)

• Noto - Font for all the world's languages.

• Cozette - Bitmap programming font optimized for coziness.

• Jost

• MonoLisa

• Recursive Sans & Mono - Variable font family for code & UI. (Code)

• Baudelaire - Modern transitional serif typeface.

• Fira Sans - Mozilla's new typeface, used in Firefox OS. (Code)

• Sohne

• Free variable writing fonts from iA

• Sparks - Typeface for creating sparklines in text without code.

• BLOKK - Gives you a nice fill text for mock-ups and wireframing without the lorem ipsum.

• Scunthorpe Sans - Self-censoring font. (HN)

• Amstelvar - Parametric variable font by David Berlow. (Code)

• Monaco

• Cardo

• Raleway

• Noway

• Entypo

• Space Grotesk - Florian Karsten Typefaces. (Code)

• Florian Karsten Typefaces

• PragmataPro - Coding font designed by Fabrizio Schiavi.

• OpenDyslexic - Typeface for Dyslexia. (HN)

• Moneta

• 3270font - Font for the Nostalgic. (HN)

• Last Resort - Special-purpose font that includes a collection of glyphs to represent types of Unicode characters. (HN)

• JuliaMono - Monospaced font for scientific and technical computing. (HN) (Code) (Article)

• Josefin Sans - Idea for creating this typeface was to make it geometric, elegant and kind of vintage, especially for titling.

• Titillium Web Variable Fonts

• Bungee - Chromatic signage typeface for vertical and horizontal setting. (Web)

• Quicksand

• Bitmap fonts for humans

• Butler - Free serif font inspired by a mix between both Dala Floda & the amazing Bodoni family.

• Montserrat

• Libre Franklin

• Curves - Free font by Philippine Eevee.

• Roboto VF - Variable version of Roboto intended to be a 1:1 match with the official non-variable release from Google.

• Roboto Flex - Upgrades Roboto to become a more powerful Variable Font, allowing youu to do more to express and finesse your text.

• Barlow - Slightly rounded, low-contrast, grotesk type family.

• IBM Plex typeface

• Monoid - Customisable coding font with alternates, ligatures and contextual positioning. Crazy crisp at 12px/9pt. (Code)

• League Mono - Monospace typeface inspired by Fira Mono, Libertinus Mono, and Courier. (Web)

• LiebeHeide - Amazingly real looking handwritten messages with LiebeHeide color font.

• Piazzolla font family (Code)

• Ellograph - Friendly monospaced typeface with a soft, rounded construction and striking cursive italics.

• Source Sans Pro - Set of OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well in user interface (UI) environments. (Code)

• Operator

• Consolas

• Comic Mono - Legible monospace font. (Code) (HN)

• Datalegreya - Typeface which can interweave data curves with text. (HN) (Code)

• Leland - SMuFL-compliant OpenType music font.

• Commuters Sans

• wavefont - Typeface for rendering data: waveforms, spectrums, diagrams, bars etc.

• Writer - Version of iA Writer Mono with increased letter-spacing and tuned weights.

Links

• Typewolf - What's trending in type. (Site of the day)

• Google Fonts

• Programming Fonts - Test drive over 50 free programming fonts.

• Guide to Only the Best Open-Source Typefaces

• Inter typeface family

• Google Noto Fonts

• The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)

• Fabrizio Schiavi - Multidisciplinary designer with skill in typography.

• Rubrication Design Examples

• Google Web Fonts Helper - Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. (Code)

• 50 free handwriting fonts (2020)

• Crafting the Airbnb Cereal Typeface (2018)

• Visual Overview of Typography

• Thinking With Type - Book on Typography.

• The Raster Tragegy and Low Resolution

• FontGoggles - Font viewer for various font formats. It is a desktop application for macOS. (Code)

• I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn't Believe What Happened Next - Marcin Wichary (2020)

• Variable Fonts Primer (Code)

• sfsymbols - Export the shapes in the SF Symbols font.

• Fonts In Use - Independent archive of typography.

• Awesome Typography

• Type Specimens

• Type Studies

• Practical Typography

• Showcase of OpenType Features (Code)

• monospacifier.py - Great way to increase the Unicode coverage of your favorite programming font.

• Chrome Detect Font - Easily see which fonts are in use.

• Font Bakery - Command-line tool for checking the quality of font projects.

• Typelab - Type design service offering design software and bespoke type design for diverse clients.

• OH no Type - Oakland based type foundry.

• An Introduction to Variable Fonts (2019)

• v-fonts - Simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts.

• Variable Emojis

• YouTube Sans: The Making of a Typeface (2020)

• Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers (2020) (HN)

• The best totally free web fonts & typefaces (2020)

• Samsa - Variable font inspector. (Code)

• Axis-Praxis - Website for playing with OpenType Variable Fonts

• TinySDF - Browser-side SDF font generator. (Code)

• From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography (2017)

• The Future of Text: 2020 Vision Book (PDF)

• Future Of Text Initiative

• How to pick different font sizes that look good together

• Font Picker - Font selector component for Google Fonts.

• Advice on improving typesetting on websites

• xz/fonts - Break your users from unethical tracking networks. xz/fonts delivers exclusively open-source fonts through Vercel's impossibly fast CDN. (Code)

• Text for Proofing Fonts

• The Fastest Google Fonts (2020) (HN)

• Jaimey Shapey's typography

• Zach Leatherman | The Five Whys of Web Font Loading Performance (2018)

• Pop Culture Typography (2018)

• Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO)

• Typography.js - Powerful toolkit for building websites with beautiful design.

• Awesome Mac OS Catalina fonts you didn’t know you had access to (2020)

• ttf-parser - High-level, safe, zero-allocation TrueType font parser. Can be used as Rust and as C library.

• FontEdit - Desktop app to import, edit and export fonts as byte arrays for use in embedded systems. (HN)

• Open Sauce Fonts - Font super family that I developed for Creative Sauce's internal type system.

• Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (HN)

• Python+FontForge+Org: I made a font based on my handwriting! (2020)

• What’s In A Font? Researching Website Typography (2020)

• font-kit - Cross-platform font loading library written in Rust.

• Helvetica - Documentary on typography, graphic design and global visual culture. (HN)

• Local Font Access Explained - Web API for enumerating fonts on the local system.

• HarfBuzz - Text shaping library.

• rustybuzz - Incremental harfbuzz port to Rust.

• Font Stash - Light-weight online font texture atlas builder.

• Grammar of Typography: Classical Design in the Digital Age

• Introducing Fontcase (2020)

• Webfont Handbook - From selection to optimization, learn how to make the web a more visually diverse, efficient, and readable environment.

• Runebender - Font editor written in Rust.

• Why not just use bitmap fonts? (2020) (Lobsters)

• Wikimedia FontCDN - Anonymizing, privacy-first reverse proxy to Google Fonts. (HN)

• 99 Font Pairings & Typeface Combinations

• Capsize - Flipping how we define typography in CSS.

• Embedded Google Fonts (Code)

• Once Upon a Type

• Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting (2020) - How an emerging CSS standard can fix old problems and raise the bar for web apps.

• Cap height - Calculate the cap height of fonts loaded with Web Font Loader.

• Use advanced typography with local fonts (2020)

• Signifier design information (2020)

• ztext.js - 3D Typography for the Web.

• Did You Know Fonts Could Do All This? (2020) (Lobsters)

• macOS-like fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux (2020) (HN)

• When fonts fall (2020) (HN)

• Design Class – Web Typography

• typespiration.com - Showcase of web typography designs with ready-to-use CSS codes.

• Fontsource - Updating monorepo full of self-hostable Open Source fonts bundled into individual NPM packages.

• Beautiful and Effective Web Typography: An Interview with Richard Rutter (2020)

• Web Font Loader - Gives you added control when using linked fonts via @font-face.

• Font Variation Description - Compact and unambiguous way to describe a font in CSS.

• Adobe Fonts - Quality fonts at your fingertips.

• Font engineering tools - Collection of font engineering utilities.

• Type Thursday - Global type superfamily converges monthly to help one another improve our letterforms over drinks.

• Font of the Month Club - Get a fresh new font delivered to your inbox every single month.

• Coding Fonts - Microsite that shows off fonts designed for writing code. (Code)

• The good line-height - Create a type scale following an 8 point baseline grid, or any grid.

• Type Scale - Visual Type Scale Calculator. (Code)

• Site-Speed Topography (2020)

• Monotype - Font & Technology Specialists.

• Black Foundry - Combining design and technology, we create fonts that perform.

• TypeMedia - MA in Type Design at the KABK.

• Arrow Type - Design & development for modern typography.

• Typographist

• Fontello - Icon fonts generator. (Code)

• lv_font_conv - Converts TTF/WOFF fonts to compact bitmap format.

• Typogram - Create nice-looking, minimalistic graphics that focus on a short snippet of text for sharing on the web. (Code)

• Tips for making variable fonts

• Scaling custom fonts automatically with Dynamic Type (2020)

• Dev Fonts - List of fonts for coding. (Code) (HN)

• The League of Moveable Type - First open-source font foundry. (GitHub)

• Learn Typography

• Fontship - Toolkit for generating fonts and tooling for a collaborative workflow.

• fontTools - Library for manipulating fonts, written in Python.

• font-line - OpenType vertical metrics reporting and font line spacing adjustment tool.

• Ligaturizer - Add ligatures to any coding font.

• LiebeFonts - Hand-Made Fonts With Lots of Love.

• Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts (2020) (HN)

• Huerta Tipografica - Independent Type foundry. (GitHub)

• ufo2ft - Generate OpenType font binaries from UFOs without the FDK dependency.

• fontmake - Compile fonts from sources (UFO, Glyphs) to binary (OpenType, TrueType).

• OpenType Sanitizer - Parses and serializes OpenType files (OTF, TTF) and WOFF and WOFF2 font files, validating them and sanitizing them as it goes.

• Fontkit - Advanced font engine for Node and the browser, used by PDFKit.

• Connary Fagen - Type design studio and foundry.

• OpenType shaping documents - Documentation of OpenType shaping behavior.

• Kerning and letterspacing research

• Allsorts - Font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter for OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 implemented in Rust.

• Allsorts Tools - Example tools for the Allsorts font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter.

• Transfonter - Online @font-face generator.

• The hyperbezier pen tool - Introduces a new model for a path drawing (pen) tool, with a particular focus on font design.

• Fontdue - Fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.

• fontpreview - Python library for font previews.

• Typeset - HTML pre-processor for web typography.

• glyphhanger - Web font utility belt. It can subset web fonts. It can show you what unicode-ranges are used on a web site (optionally per font-family.

• Web Fonts in 2021

• My favorite typefaces of 2020

• I love Typography

• VE Font Cache - Single header-only GPU font rendering library designed for game engines.

• System Font CSS - Use the native system font of the OS running the browser. (Web)

• ab-glyph - Rust API for loading, scaling, positioning and rasterizing OpenType font glyphs.

• Dharma Type

• System Font Stack (Code)

• Uniwidth typefaces for interface design (2021)

• Operator Mono Ligatures - Add ligatures to Operator Mono similar to Fira Code.