For my programmer friends: a new mono-spaced font, completely free from Intel

[thewayne]

It's called Intel One Mono, and at my first glance, it's pretty decent, though I'm not too sure that I care for the lower case L. They have an extremely unrestrictive license for it, and lots of instructions on how to download it from Github and incorporate it into most major editors.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/06/intel-one-mono-font

https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/06/10/030224/intel-open-sources-new-one-mono-font-for-programmers

Comments

[kaishin108]

That looks pretty nice. That lower case L is a bit odd but at least it doesn't look like a capital I - I guess.

[thewayne]

I'm going to load it into Visual Studio and check it out, I'm not entirely keen on Microsoft's font and have been considering a change.

[draconis]

Hm. Certainly not BAD, but not sure it's worth changing over to.

[thewayne]

I'm rather undecided.  I'll check it out.  I'm using Visual Studio as my editor, I haven't really played with the fonts in it yet.  I like it because I can use it on both my Macs and PCs.

[kraig]

I've been an Anonymous Pro user for years, and before that Andale Mono, but I'll give this one a try. :D Thanks!

[devilc]

I like the lower space L. Makes it distinct from the 1 and capitol I.

What I don't like is that the b d p and q are the same shape flipped/mirrored, which makes it harder dyslexic folks. FFS. Put SOMEthing to differentiate them.

[thewayne]

I'm quite fond of the simple Courier typeface for working with code or anything that needs monospacing.  People with dyslexia is definitely a special consideration, no doubt.  Good catch!

[silveradept]

Interesting to see how many different monospace fonts someone wants to have available and used around. I'm surprised that things that need to have specific delineation, like URLs, don't have monospace fonts required in the address bar or similar.