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Dev tools · March 7, 2014

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Luculent, a new code/terminal font

Luculent, a new code/terminal font launched on March 7, 2014 with 120 votes, #71 of 1,224 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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In plain words

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. The typeface was developed to provide a visually pleasant alternative to existing programming fonts, offering a complete matching set for syntax highlighting and code display.

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Luculent is a family of scalable (vector), monospaced, geometric sans-serif screen fonts designed for programmers. I began developing it in October 2008 after trying out as many of the available programming typefaces as I could find at the time. I wanted a pleasant looking typeface that could stand up to many hours a day of scrutiny. Though many good ones exist, none of them quite satisfied me or had every feature that I wanted. I decided to try making my own and the result was Luculent. A complete family of matching regular, italic, bold, and bold-italic styles is included for use in syntax highlighting. The bolds have increased stroke contrast and are designed to be heavy enough to make…from eastfarthing.com

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