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What are some good everyday monospace fonts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by IndigoGollum@lemmy.world to c/typography@lemmy.ca

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What are some good fixed width fonts for everyday use rather than just coding and text art? I'm looking for something with serifs, and i'd like to add a couple characters that don't exist in Unicode so something with a license that permits modifications is good. Lowercase numbers i could take or leave.

Apparently typewriters were mostly fixed width (i think, i've never used one) so a font based on a typewriter typeface should be fine but a lot of what i can find is proportional or just ugly.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] cosmicrose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Programming Fonts has a lot of fixed-width fonts to browse through. It’s obviously coding-focused but it’s a nice resource.

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

That is a really cool resource, merci.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Drafting* Mono by indestructible type*

[–] tychosmoose@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Courier Prime might be worth a look. Very compatible with Courier in size, but more readable and with a much less restrictive license.