/monospace-font-list

Work to build a list of monospace/typewriter/coding/fixed-width fonts, with completeness as the goal.

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monospace-font-list

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.

Criteria

The only criteria for inclusion in this list are as follows:

  • That a font has to be monospace, and

  • that it (likely) has to have existed in a computerized format.

Other things that are not restrictions:

  • I accept free and open source fonts as well as commercial ones.

  • 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.



The List of Fonts

See monospace-font-list.md.



Other Lists of Fonts

These lists, for the most part, do not attempt to be comprehensive, as this one does.

Collections of Fonts

Font Patches

Nerd Fonts

A collection of open source fonts, patched to add Font Awesome like icons.

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

Powerline Fonts

A collection of open source fonts, patched to add characters for Powerline.

https://github.com/powerline/fonts

Reddit Threads

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.

Old Typewriter Typefaces

I'm listing this as a separate section, as there are many minor variations among vintage typewriter typefaces that have not been yet computerized.