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Characters are easy to distinguish

All characters read nicely ("0" and "O", "B" and "8", "1" and "l" - all the classics).

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Laura Kyle
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Good line height

Line height in Hack Font is comfortable to read yet small enough to fit many lines of code on a traditional screen.

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Pretty and easy on the eyes

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Chad Perrin

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Some characters appear cramped when adjacent

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Parentheses and brackets are sometimes hard to identify

At small fonts sizes especially, parentheses and brackets look very similar.

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Chad Perrin

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Poor visibility of zero character

The zero character looks like a blob at small font sizes.

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Unclear lowercase "i"

The lowercase "i" sometimes looks like an open parenthesis,

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Future is unknown

It isn't backed by a big company and it doesn't come from Google, Mozilla or Adobe, so its future is unknown.

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