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Input - One Font to Rule Them All
I love monospace fonts. I am not a coder but I like the look and feel of monospace fonts on screen. I find them easy to read. Writing in markdown, monospace fonts help me with lists and tables.
I came across a presentation by David Jonathan Ross on YouTube. He is the designer behind Input. The presentation taught me a lot about monospace fonts. You can watch it here: Cracking the Code - David Jonathan Ross - btconfDUS 2016 - YouTube
One of the intriguing things about Input was the customized version that you can generate for yourself. Customized and generated for you. I like that.
Customized Input
I was intrigued by two things.
- The ability to have the
*character in the middle of the line. - The insanely-curly brackets. I love those.
The other feature of Input which I have grown to love is the outsized punctuation marks. The period, the comma, the exclamation point, and the others are all large and prominent. Easy to distinguish one from the other.
I am using Input Mono for all of my writing, in all of my editors. You can generate your own version and use it for your writing here: Input: Fonts for Code.
For those of you who prefer proportional fonts, Input has a sans and serif version which you can check out.
Input is free for private/unpublished use.
In case you are feeling brave and love the look of Input, the developer provides a System Font Replacement here: Input: Fonts for Code — System Font Replacement. I am not using it. But you can if you are so inclined.
Input in all its forms is heartily recommended.
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Thanks to: Photo by Magda Ehlers from Pexels and David Jonathan Ross.