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https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid

Customisable coding font with alternates, ligatures and contextual positioning. Crazy crisp at 12px/9pt. http://larsenwork.com/monoid/
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Customisable coding font with alternates, ligatures and contextual positioning. Crazy crisp at 12px/9pt. http://larsenwork.com/monoid/

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Guide       Ligature Support       Links       Log       License







 



# Guide



### Live Preview + Download



[larsenwork.com/monoid](http://larsenwork.com/monoid)



 



### Install



Quit your editor/program. Unzip and open the folder.



**Mac + Linux (with font-viewer)**  

Select the .ttf files and double click → Follow the on-screen guide



**Windows**  

Right click the .ttf files → Install



**Linux (manually)**  

Copy the .ttf files to your fonts-directory (e.g., `~/.fonts`) → Run `sudo fc-cache`  



**Detailed Instructions**  

[How to](http://www.howtogeek.com/192980/how-to-install-remove-and-manage-fonts-on-windows-mac-and-linux/) Install, Remove, and Manage Fonts on Windows, Mac, and Linux  

[Ubuntu Wiki](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts#Manually)



### Stylistic Alternates



The font contains more alternates than available on the webpage - see [Monoid-*.fea](https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/blob/master/Utilities/Monoid-*.fea) for details. You can access these using `font-feature-settings` in your code editor stylesheet.



### Tips



Atom [Stylesheet](https://gist.github.com/larsenwork/255432b5101093fb07bc)  

[Change Monoid metrics](https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/issues/109) if you use it together with e.g. Chinese



### Edit



Please fork and edit away. Use the also libre [FontForge](http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/) and read [Design With FontForge](http://designwithfontforge.com/) to get started.






 



# Ligature Support



Monoid uses `calt` and Monoisome uses `calt` + `liga` which aren't supported by all programs.



### Editors + Terminals



| Working | Partly Working | Not Working |

|:---|:---|:---|

| Atom, Brackets, Coda, Eclipse, gEdit, IntelliJ-based², Smultron, Terminal, UltraEdit, Xcode | Visual Studio¹, MacVim³ | gVim, libvte-based, Notepad++, Sublime Text, Xterm, Urxvt |

¹ Ligatures with hyphens doesn't work  

² PHPStorm, WebStorm etc.  

³ MacVim [snapshot-78](https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases/tag/snapshot-78), also see the PR [here](https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/pull/56)  



### Browsers



| Working | Partly Working | Not Working |

|:---|:---|:---|

| Chrome, Firefox, IE 10+ | Safari¹ | IE <10 |

¹ Enabled by default - can't be turned off.



### Other Apps



| Working |

|:---|

| Adobe CS/CC, Affinity Designer, LibreOffice Writer, Text Edit |






 



# Links



I wrote some [Medium articles](https://medium.com/@larsenwork) explaining various aspects.  

A [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdld21mlzbY) of me talking about Monoid at Cph Frontenders meetup.  

FastCompany article: [Do You Code? You should Try This Font](http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048939/do-you-code-you-should-try-this-font)  

Lifehacker article: [Monoid Is an Open Source Font That's Perfect for Coders](http://lifehacker.com/monoid-is-an-open-source-font-thats-perfect-for-coders-1719835292)  



**Open source coding fonts**  

[Fira Code](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode) - Fira Mono Regular with ligatures  

[Hasklig](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig) - Source Code Pro Regular with ligatures  






 



# Font Log



Follow the [GitHub guide for contributing](https://guides.github.com/activities/contributing-to-open-source/#contributing) for issues, pull requests etc.


Remember to update the Font Log when you make contributions.



### Made by



    

        
Chase

        
Andreas

    



**Helped, contributed etc.**  

[Mike Bronner](https://github.com/mikebronner): Finished the lookup table for Monoisome  

[plgruener](https://github.com/plgruener): Active in the issues  

[K900](https://github.com/K900): Feedback on Cyrillics  

[Dave Gandy](https://github.com/davegandy): Creator of Font-Awesome



    

        Version

        Date

        Change

        Author

    

    

        Wish List

        

        Download stats, generate versions live on site, ...

        

    

    

        RoadMap

        

        Squeezed capitals with diacritics, Retina book (current regular) + regular.

        

    

    

        0.61

        2015.08.11

        Added !!, ::, <==> and fixed some bugs.

        Andreas

    

    

        0.60+0.10

        2015.07.31

        Removed icons from Monoid. Initial release of Monoisome.

        Andreas + Mike

    

    

        0.56

        2015.07.29

        Added more ligatures e.g. __ ___ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and fixed some ligature bugs.

        Andreas

    

    

        0.55

        2015.07.28

        Updated characters (J, asterisks, quotation marks, 3, 6, 9, =), fixed long arrow length, alternate, more ligatures and stuff.

        Andreas

    

    

        0.53

        2015.07.27

        Class based contextual positioning - regular, retina + italic. Oblique is now italic.

        Andreas

    

    

        0.52

        2015.07.24

        Class based contextual positioning - regular only

        Andreas

    

    

        0.51

        2015.07.22

        Fixed font naming issues and improved build times.

        Chase

    

    

        0.50

        2015.07.21

        Completed Bold, Oblique and Retina with all glyphs and ligatures.

        Andreas

    

    

        0.41

        2015.07.21

        Super fast parallel builds, improved push checks, zipped font packages, automatic GitHub Pages font update

        Chase

    

    

        0.40

        2015.07.14

        Bold, Oblique and retina version (basic letters)

        Andreas

    

    

        0.35

        2015.06.30

        Regular + retina version greatly improved. Oblique 80% done and bold(black) has basic Latin.

        Andreas

    

    

        0.34

        2015.06.17

        Updated metrics (note that default font-size is now 15px)

        Andreas

    

    

        0.33

        2015.06.16

        Perfecting/many of the curved characters.

        Andreas

    

    

        0.32

        2015.06.15

        New comma and many small adjustments to make it cleaner+sharper.

        Andreas

    

    

        0.31

        2015.06.03

        Alt s, smoother curves + bigger apertures

        Andreas

    

    

        0.30

        2015.04.21

        Powerline symbols + major website update

        Andreas

    

    

        0.29

        2015.04.21

        CircleCI automation + build scripts

        Chase

    

    

        0.28

        2015.04.12

        Misc. symbols

        Andreas

    

    

        0.27

        2015.04.11

        Greek

        Andreas

    

    

        0.24

        2015.04.06

        Cyrillic

        Andreas + k900

    

    

        0.20

        2015.04.04

        Latin extended

        Andreas

    

    

        0.10

        2015.04.03

        Latin basic

        Andreas

    






 



# Licenses

Monoid is dual licensed with MIT and OFL licenses. Pick one:)  

Monoisome is OFL license.



### The MIT License (MIT)



Copyright (c) 2015, Andreas Larsen and contributors.



Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy

of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights

to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell

copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:



The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all

copies or substantial portions of the Software.



THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER

LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,

OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE

SOFTWARE.



### SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE  



Copyright (c) 2015, Dave Gandy, Andreas Larsen and contributors.  

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.  

This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL



**SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE**  

Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007



**PREAMBLE**  

The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide

development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation

efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and

open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership

with others.



The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and

redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The

fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,

redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved

names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,

however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The

requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply

to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.



**DEFINITIONS**  

"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright

Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may

include source files, build scripts and documentation.



"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the

copyright statement(s).



"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as

distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).



"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,

or substituting — in part or in whole — any of the components of the

Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a

new environment.



"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical

writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.



**PERMISSION & CONDITIONS**  

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining

a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,

redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font

Software, subject to the following conditions:



1. Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,

in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.



2. Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,

redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy

contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be

included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or

in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or

binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.



3. No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font

Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding

Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as

presented to the users.



4. The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font

Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any

Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the

Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written

permission.



5. The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,

must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be

distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to

remain under this license does not apply to any document created

using the Font Software.



**TERMINATION**  

This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are

not met.



**DISCLAIMER**  

THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,

EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF

MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT

OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,

INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL

DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING

FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM

OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.