Dank Mono

The coding typeface for aesthetes

34 followers

The coding typeface for aesthetes

34 followers

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A typeface designed for coding aesthetes with modern displays in mind. Delightful ligatures and an italic variant and bold style.

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Dank Mono

Maker

Hiya, There are many coding fonts out there, but before you judge it too quickly, let me tell you the story of how “Dank Mono” came to be. There a lot of coding fonts out there that focus on rendering well at a wide range of font sizes. But when I previously used some of them, none were as beautiful as some display fonts out there. I really wanted a coding font that is designed with aesthetics in mind at reasonable font sizes like 14px. So this is why I eventually made Dank Mono! With the main goals of italics, having some ligatures, powerline symbols, and small details on every single letter. I hope you all like it! Cheers! Edit: One more thing, if you decide to buy Dank Mono please feel free to use this 15% coupon code: "producthunt27783"; Grab 'em while they're hot, since it's only valid for the first 30 people! :) Edit 2: The coupon has now been extended to more people (45)

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8yr ago

There

@_philpl I GRABBED IT AND IT BURNT MY HAND 😱 [BUT IT WAS WORTH IT 😍]

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8yr ago

Hypersonic

@_philpl I purchased the font :) Thanks man! Good job!

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8yr ago

@_philpl anyyyymore coupons out there floating around? :) I'm itching to give this font a shot.

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8yr ago

@_philpl you got anymore coupon, I'd love to get my hand on this, wicked beautiful.

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8yr ago

Dank Mono

Maker

@bcphung @zhud I've extended the coupon to be valid for 45 ppl :)

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8yr ago

Songbox

I write code everyday in life. However £40 for a monospaced font? If you buy this then congratulations, you clearly have money with which to set fire to.

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8yr ago

@mickc79 I agree, it'll be good to have a separate licence for $1 or something similar to support the project and use it in my code editor, and the $40 license if you want to use it commercially or in your webpage for the code snippets

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8yr ago

while I would give this font a ride I just could not justify $40 purchase on font with so many open-source and free alternative. It's just a monospaced font after all, not a programming tool.

Pros:

reasonable good looking

Cons:

$40 price tag

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8yr ago

Dank Mono

Maker

Hiya, sorry that you're disappointed with the price tag. It's oriented after other coding fonts like Operator Mono (200$). I leave a couple of discount codes here and there (check my comment on here) but essentially every coding font has different goals, and as an independent creator of it, I'd like to finance my work properly. Sorry, if that put you off, but I hope you'll try the font one day :) Btw, I would also disagree with the assessment that this is not a programming "tool". It very much is part of your every day life. You can read more about this reasoning in the Medium post I wrote.

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8yr ago

@_philpl can you provide more choices for buying/licensing it. That would be great because font usage vary people to people and if you can provide more choices like other fonts has, would make people buy it. :)

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7yr ago

PlanetScale Boost

@_philpl Bought! Love the simple site you setup btw, very fast. What'd you use to implement the no user/pass login?

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8yr ago

Dank Mono

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

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8yr ago

SameTime.co

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.

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8yr ago

Dank Mono

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.

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8yr ago

React Boilerplate 3.0

My code has never looked more spiffing.

I was initially concerned that ligatures would be confusing, but nothing could be further from the case: if anything I'm concerned about not having the visual affordance now!

I love it.

Pros:

1) Dankness 2) The "f" character 3) The ligatures rock

Cons:

You use it to write code. Boo.

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8yr ago

Have you tried the free Fira Code and its listed alternative? https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

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8yr ago

40$ is definitely too pricey when the free, high quality "Fira Code" exists https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

I'm using Fira Code for several years, and only those not aware of free alternatives would risk buying this font. I wouldn't buy this without testing it first on my code. Too bad the 40$ tag is preventing me from doing that...

Other programming fonts (free and paid) https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCo...

Pros:

Helps raising awareness on the importance of a good font.

Cons:

Price. Free, quality competition exists.

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8yr ago