iA-Fonts

Dev fonts is usually synonymous with fixed width (mono) fonts, and for good reasons. Those reasons are discussed by iA Writer in interesting detail [1]. However they do so as a precursor to their own duospace font, "iA Writer Duo" [2]. It's a compromise, but one that works well (for me). Basically IBM Plex but with m, M, w, and W being 50% wider than all the other characters. Sounds odd, but is very legible and usually fine depending upon the context of its use. [1] https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font [2] https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts

Something I wish I saw more often are monospace fonts designed for readability (codingability?) that have narrower character width. Iosevka is one of them, but to me the negative spaces between characters in it are too little for good readability, in other words it feels too "square"-ish. Other fonts close to it in style have other issues. I've been using M+ fonts for coding for more than a decade I think, and tried to switch but always returned to them. If you're somebody like me, check them out: https://mplusfonts.github.io In terminals I'm using Source Code Pro or IBM Plex Pro and they work really well for me. Also turns out IBM Plex Sans can be a solid font for designing dashboards, tables and generally more "technical" UIs, so whoever worked on that font familiy did a really good job imo. And if you like iA Writer, they based their f

Try this: https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts Thank me later:) Context: https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font

The font is a modification of IBM's Plex open font, and is available here. https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/

Like the author, I always thought IBM's Plex Mono had a bit too much character for a UI font, but I’m a big fan of IA's modifications: https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/tree/master/iA%20Writer%20... Part of the project are some interesting duospace and quad-space versions that I probably wouldn’t use for code, but are great for editing general text.

Well spotted! > This is a modification of IBM's Plex font. https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/tree/master/iA%20Writer%20...

Beauty! My personal preference is iA Writer Mono. https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/tree/master/iA%20Writer%20...

Something not in the list that would make a good addition is iA’s (makers of the popular iA Writer app) fork of IBM Plex Mono. They took Plex and redesigned some of the more quirky, IBM-brand glyphs such as loosening the tight radii on the descenders of ’t’ and ‘j’, and built some fairly novel duospace and quad-space versions: https://ia.net/writer/blog/a-typographic-christmas The GitHub link is somewhat buried in the post: https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts