MonoLisa – A new monospaced font for devs
Hi HN, we are Marcus Sterz, Andrey Okonetchnikov, and Juho Vepsäläinen from Vienna. Marcus is a font designer while Andrey and Juho are more on the web development side of things. Today, we're launching a new monospaced font called MonoLisa (https://monolisa.dev) to the public. After Marcus saw me (Juho) and Andrey working, he was curious about the fonts we use. In programming, we're stuck with the monospaced format as code has to align to a grid in order to be readable. For a font designer, that's an interesting constraint as you'll have to make compromises to fit the format.…
MonoLisa – A new monospaced font for devs launched on March 10, 2020 with 12 votes, #1,053 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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MonoLisa is a monospaced font designed specifically for developers. Created by font designer Marcus Sterz in collaboration with web developers Andrey Okonetchnikov and Juho Vepsäläinen, it addresses the unique constraints of coding environments where characters must align to a grid. The font balances readability requirements with visual design innovation, offering an alternative to standard monospaced typefaces commonly used in programming and code editors.
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Hi HN, we are Marcus Sterz, Andrey Okonetchnikov, and Juho Vepsäläinen from Vienna. Marcus is a font designer while Andrey and Juho are more on the web development side of things. Today, we're launching a new monospaced font called MonoLisa (https://monolisa.dev) to the public. After Marcus saw me (Juho)…
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MonoLisa2020 · monolisa.dev · ▲197Originally 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!
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