Native is a monospace family built with designers and developers in mind. The typeface seeks to strike a balance between personality and usability. Native’s charm can come out in the tail of the “a” or the flow the italic “r,” but it still retains readability without its quirks becoming overbearing. Native’s counters were kept open in order to aid legibility at smaller sizes, and the italics were given their fair share of differentiation to bring emphasis for items such as a comment in a line of code.
Native’s weights and italics all occupy the same amount of horizontal space so no alignment issues will occur when switching between styles. The Regular weight is free of charge for all types of licenses.
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Pros
Pro Readable
Pro Consistent character widths between the italics and weights
Within Native's weights and styles, each character occupies 580 points of space. This ensures code does not become misaligned if a developer prefers certain callouts in a different style.
Pro The regular weight is free for Desktop, Web, and App Licensing
The regular weight can be picked up free of charge on MyFonts or Fort Foundry’s site.
Pro No alignment issues when switching between styles
Pro Italics are given a lot of differentiation
Cons
Con Not FREE
Not free and hard to find.