Dank Mono
The coding typeface for aesthetes
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Phil Pluckthun

Dank Mono - The rather special coding font

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Dank Mono is the coding font you want. Designed for aesthetes with code and Retina displays in mind. Delightful ligatures and an italic variant.

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Joshua Pinter
I'd love to try it to see if it makes a difference in coding happiness. Never thought about changing the font, still using the default font in Sublime Text 3. I've only changed the theme and syntax highlighting.
Dimitar Mihaylov
I wasn't sure, if it's reasonable enough to give $40 for a font (for EU citizens it's actually £40, even more). Yet, I decided to give it a go and support Phil's brave idea. I use mainly PHP and the font doesn't come that fancy for it, but front-end languages got a serious improvement. Generally speaking, it's the best font I've experienced on a Retina Mac. Great job! 👍
Gezim Hoxha
I find it quite unreadable...the italics mainly.
Elior Boukhobza

While I understand that it's okay to get paid for your hard work, with all the opensource alternatives I find it too bad to ask for money when it's clearly not made for businesses. Welp, good work anyway.

Pros:

It's a monospace font that looks good

Cons:

It's not free

Tommy Marshall
Absolutely well intentioned, but overstates itself. Things that increase the value of your product, like research, was purposefully avoided, along with established patterns (Why? No reason given). Jargon like "monotone spacing" (which isn't a thing) is scattered throughout the post without explanation or definition. I fear this is an open source font with some added glyphs, bent corners, a medium post, and somehow got much more traffic than it deserves.
Phil Pluckthun
Maker
@tommyjmarshall You find the Medium post to be lacking a description of the research behind the font? I find this assessment highly surprising as the post’s topic is not at all about *all* the choices that have been made, which is also a post I'm not interested in creating. Instead it displays a carefully selected set of glyphs to make a point about some of the font’s goals; I’m not a typographer so some of the jargon and phrasing is definitely not on point, but is clearly not something that reflects onto the post. I'd highly appreciate some feedback on Medium though ;) "Monotone spacing" for instance was intended to be just that: Spacing of glyphs that is monotonous thus not breaking the rhythm between glyphs. You're also free to inspect all the glyphs, but they've all been drawn from scratch, so what you'll find is *not* a remarketed OSS font, which would clearly be foul play otherwise.
Ian Svoboda 💻📱🍸

I love this font. It’s really jazzed up my terminal and IDE. I find it makes my code easier to scan and more enjoyable to read

Pros:

Great ligatures, fun italics, great arrow/comparison letterforms

Cons:

It costs money

Mike Coutermarsh
@_philpl Bought! Love the simple site you setup btw, very fast. What'd you use to implement the no user/pass login?
Phil Pluckthun
Maker
@mscccc Hiya, cheers first of all for buying the font! :) I've implemented a custom system for the login and the emails are processed by Postmark
vikkio88

Why would you spend £40 for a font?

Pros:

none

Cons:

fira is the best

why would I change fira for this?

£40 for a font... really?

Justin Scheetz
Just bought it and love it. Great work Phil!
Luis Fernando Alvarez David
I would love to have a free trial :D
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