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Creator here, thanks for all the support for this objectively terrible programming font! Still working on some issues with windows not playing nicely with bold weights so be sure to watch the repository (https://github.com/IdreesInc/Monocraft) or follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/IdreesInc) for updates.

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It's an absolutely hideous font for looking at code, but I appreciate the effort you put in to make it. Nice work!

Have you considered writing a blog post about the process you used to make it, anything that set you back while working on it, and advice for others who may wish to generate their own fonts?

I'm always on the hunt for a good programming font, and I opened the link and immediately thought "omg, no! i hatez this!". I didn't want to be mean and say so out loud, so it's nice to see the creator say "objectively terrible programming font", lol. As bad as it is for working with code, I could definitely see some very cool applications otherwise. Nice work op!

I have always thought that the font used in Minecraft is just a standard available font, like System or Dialog. Is that incorrect?

It's a specific font to Minecraft. It's not an existing font. It appeared before Minecraft in 'Legend of Chambered', which was a simple game created by Notch, who later created Minecraft.

GNU Unifont afaik

bold weights are really killing it on windows rn - awesome that you're aware of it

FWIW usually fonts variants are named '|font| Code' for ligatures version and '|font| Mono' for normal

but feel free to ignore reminded me of spectrum font ^|

Nice idea, but how do you get around the potential copyright infringement?

There's not copyright in the US on a typeface (the look), you can only have copyrights on the individual implementation (the font)[1].

[1]: https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/font-law-licensing/

I suppose the font was originally created in Sweden, though, right?

They pixel-perfectly copied and recreated it in BitFontMaker2[0] (source[1]).

Not a nice thing to do to a type designer or a foundry, but a gaming studio/Notch(?) won't probably care.

[0] - https://www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/bitfontmaker2/

[1] - https://github.com/IdreesInc/Minecraft-Font

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