Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe inspired by the visual constraints of early command-line and text mode user interfaces. Think 80's dot matrix printers, ancient documents, airline tickets, and receipts.
Excels with tabular data. Includes characters for drawing in text mode. Seems to cover the classic IBM 256 character set. Includes .woff and .woff2 versions for web design.
Spleen is the default OpenBSD terminal console font. It's been recreated as a monospaced bitmap font for use elsewhere. Each size is provided in the Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF), and release tarballs contain the fonts in the following formats: PCF, PSF (for the Linux console), OTB, OTF, .dfont for macOS users, and FON for Windows users. All font sizes contain all ISO/IEC 8859-1 characters (Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode block), Latin Extended-A characters, as well as Box Drawing, Block Elements, and Braille Patterns Unicode blocks, except for the 5x8 and the 6x12 versions.
In the AUR.
Programmers use a lot of symbols, often encoded with several characters. For the human brain, sequences like ->, <= or := are single logical tokens, even if they take two or three characters on the screen. Your eye spends a non-zero amount of energy to scan, parse and join multiple characters into a single logical one. Ideally, all programming languages should be designed with full-fledged Unicode symbols for operators, but that’s not the case yet.
Fira Code is a free monospaced font containing ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster. For some frequent sequences like .. or //, ligatures allow us to correct spacing.
Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability. We are making it free for anyone to use!
Both desktop and web fonts are included.