Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Luculent is a monospaced geometric sans-serif font family designed for programmers and terminal use. It includes regular, italic, bold, and bold-italic styles as scalable vector fonts suitable for extended screen time.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Luculent, a new code/terminal font launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Google Sans Code▲392

   The new font meticulously crafted for coders from Google

   2025 · fonts.google.com · its alternatives →

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   Dank Mono▲389

   The rather special coding font

   2018 · dank.sh · its alternatives →

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   Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode▲164

   This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal. - microsoft/cascadia-code

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   MonoLisa▲197

   Originally we (Andrey, Marcus, Juho) built MonoLisa in 2020 as we realised there's room for a better monospaced typeface for developers. The key insight was to make the glyphs slightly wider to make more room for design to make letters like m feel less cramped. Since then we've released a variable v2 (2022) and now we're happy to expand the typeface with a new family called MonoLisa Text. The reasoning was to cover *other* use cases beyond coding with this proportional font. We hope you give Monolisa a go as there's a free trial to try. We also welcome feedback!

   2020 · monolisa.dev · its alternatives →

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   FontSpark▲379

   Quickly discover the best fonts for your next design project

   2018 · fontspark.app · its alternatives →

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   Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font▲443

   2021 · codingfont.com · its alternatives →

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   Original 8x16 ASCII Fixed Width Font: Classic Console Neue▲132

   Classic Console Neue TrueType Font ASCII 8x16 DOS Command Line Font

   2024 · webdraft.hu · its alternatives →

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   RightFont for Mac▲311

   Helping designers find the right font quickly

   2015 · rightfontapp.com · its alternatives →

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   WhatTheFont▲433

   Shazam for fonts! Identify fonts with your camera.

   2017 · myfonts.com · its alternatives →

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    Geomanist▲70

    A modern, clean sans-serif font designed by @atipostudio

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Fontea▲295

    700 Google fonts in your Photoshop

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Prototypo▲83

    Streamlining font creation with open source typeface editor

    2014 · mathey.notion.site · its alternatives →

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    Figtree▲82

    A friendly yet minimal sans-serif font

    2022 · erikdkennedy.com · its alternatives →

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    Foont▲134

    A game for designers to identify fonts

    2021 · foont.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Classyfont▲135

    Tired of manually writing CSS for your fonts?

    2023 · classyfont.com · its alternatives →

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    Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine▲74

    I'm an engineer who spent the last year fixing everything I hated about monofonts (especially that double-story 'a'). I built a custom Python-based procedural engine to generate the weights because I wanted more logical control over the geometry. It currently has 700+ glyphs and deep math support. Regular weight is free for the community. I'm releasing more weights based on interest.

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    JetBrains Mono▲256

    A free font that makes it easier for devs to read code 🛠️

    2020 · jetbrains.com · its alternatives →

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    Font Awesome▲173

    A font of scalable vector icons

    2014 · fortawesome.github.io · its alternatives →

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    SpeedFont▲170

    Extremely simple CSS font embedding

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    FontFont▲92

    World’s largest library of original contemporary typefaces.

    2014 · fontshop.com · its alternatives →

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    Typefont▲288

    An AI that recognizes the font of a text in a photo

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Mononoki Typeface▲148

    Font for programming and code review

    2016 · madmalik.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Hack▲239

    A typeface designed for source code

    2015 · sourcefoundry.org · its alternatives →

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    Helvetica Now.▲309

    A brand new, redesigned Helvetica

    2019 · monotype.com · its alternatives →

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