My goal is to create a complete list of monospace fonts, to the extent I can. Primarily for the fun of it, but sometimes I like to use fonts that are not focused on coding.
I've found a few lists here and there of coding-focused monospace fonts, but none of them are exhaustive, and I also haven't seen any lists that include fonts that are not necessarily focused on coding. Namely, those inspired by or sourced from 20th-century typewriters.
Send an email to dse AT SIGN webonastick PERIOD com if you know of any I've missed. Or submit a patch, pull request, whatever---after all, this is a github repository.
I might include images of screenshots, specimens, etc. in the future, but for now this is a text-only list.
The only criteria for inclusion in this list are as follows:
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That a font has to be monospace, and
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that it (likely) has to have existed in a computerized format.
Other things that are not restrictions:
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I accept free and open source fonts as well as commercial ones.
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I accept programmer friendly fonts as well as fonts without programmer-friendly features.
If there are characters missing from the font I may or may not still accept it for inclusion, possibly with a caveat.
If there are important characters, such as spaces or punctuation, that are not the same width as other characters, I am likely to not include it, or to include it in this list with a caveat.
Also I may or may not list all the grungy/rough/distressed fonts I can find.
These lists, for the most part, do not attempt to be comprehensive, as this one does.
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https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts --- monospaced bitmap fonts for X11 --- I'll be adding these eventually. (02/19/2019)
A collection of open source fonts, patched to add Font Awesome like icons.
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
A collection of open source fonts, patched to add characters for Powerline.
https://github.com/powerline/fonts
I posted about this project in r/typewriters, r/fonts, and r/programming, in case you're looking for additional insight.
Not much love except in r/fonts though.
I'm listing this as a separate section, as there are many minor variations among vintage typewriter typefaces that have not been yet computerized.
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Lots of entries in the Typewriter Database include specimens.
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pp. 519–532 of the 1923 American Type Founders Specimen Book & Catalogue (higher resolution)