What are the best free & open fixed-width outline programming fonts?

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What are the best free & open fixed-width outline programming fonts?

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Best free & open fixed-width outline programming fonts	Price	License	Italics
-- Monoid	Free	MIT/OFL-1.1	Yes
-- Iosevka	Free	OFL-1.1	Yes
-- Adobe Source Code Pro	Free	OFL-1.1	Yes
-- Fantasque Sans Mono	FREE	OFL-1.1	-
-- Luculent	-	-	-

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Monoid

Weights:3 (Regular, Retina, Bold)

Zero Style:Custom

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Iosevka

Top Pro

Also variant with tiny serifs available ("Slab")

For better reading longer texts. See More

Top Con

Fewer ligatures than other fonts

Iosevka has a nice ligation set, but it doesn't have as many ligatures as fonts like Hasklig, Monoid, or Pragmata Pro. See More

Specs

License:OFL-1.1

Italics:Yes

Weights:9 (Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold, Heavy)

Zero Style:Custom

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Top Pro

Good CJK compatibility

Iosevka integrates CJK characters well, those being characters of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and occasionally Vietnamese languages. See More

Top Con

"8" and "&" look very similar

Top Pro

IPA Support

IPA is a system containing the sounds of spoken language and includes speech qualities such as intonation. See More

Top Pro

Well-maintained

The developer is active and responds to user questions and issues. See More

Top Pro

Great customizability

There is full customization of styles and variants in Iosevka. See More

Top Pro

Narrow

Narrow character width uses horizontal screen space more efficiently See More

Top Pro

Support for Cyrillic and Greek letters

Iosevka is quite flexible in that it supports Cyrillic and Greek letters. See More

Top Pro

Powerline support

Includes characters for supporting Powerline/Airline for terminals and terminal editors. See More

Top Pro

Ligature characters look great

Few fonts have a good ligation feature. Ligature characters (such as æ or the German ß) are supported in Iosevka and look just as you'd expect them to. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Iosevka is free and open source. See More

Top Pro

Large number of weights

This font comes in seven different weights, ranging from thin and extra-light to heavy. See More

Top Pro

Several styles available

Many of the common styles are available, including Sans Serif and Slab Serif with normal, bold, italic, and bold italic styles. See More

Top Pro

Easy on user's eyes

Due to it being readable on all types of displays, Iosevka isn't hard on the user's eyes. See More

Top Pro

Readable

Iosevka is very clear and legible on all displays and in all sizes. See More

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Adobe Source Code Pro

Top Pro

Free and open source

The font is licensed under SIL open font license with source code available on GitHub. Being an open source font, it's also reasonable to expect incremental upgrades and additions to character sets and functionality. See More

Specs

License:OFL-1.1

Italics:Yes

Weights:7 (Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Black)

Zero Style:Dot

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Top Pro

Even spacing

Characters are evenly spaced, making for better readability. See More

Top Pro

Offers italics

The beta release version of Source Code Pro introduced italicized characters on Jul 18, 2015. See More

Top Pro

Several styles available

The code comes with seven style variants: ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, and Black. See More

Top Pro

Legible on all displays

The characters have been made in such a way that they are easily discernible and usable regardless of font size, weight, and display. See More

Top Pro

Easy on user's eyes

The characters in Source Code Pro are easily readable. They have consistent widths across all weights as to not break up words. Commonly used programming symbols (such as various kinds of brackets) are made easily discernible from each other while various punctuation marks are made bigger than normal. This makes them especially good for programmers who keep staring at code for hours. See More

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Fantasque Sans Mono

What are the best free & open fixed-width outline programming fonts?

5 Options Considered

Monoid

My Recommendation for Monoid

My Recommendation for Monoid

Iosevka

My Recommendation for Iosevka

My Recommendation for Iosevka

Also variant with tiny serifs available ("Slab")

Fewer ligatures than other fonts

Good CJK compatibility

"8" and "&" look very similar

IPA Support

Well-maintained

Great customizability

Narrow

Support for Cyrillic and Greek letters

Powerline support

Ligature characters look great

Free and open source

Large number of weights

Several styles available

Easy on user's eyes

Readable

Adobe Source Code Pro

My Recommendation for Adobe Source Code Pro

My Recommendation for Adobe Source Code Pro

Free and open source

Even spacing

Offers italics

Several styles available

Legible on all displays

Easy on user's eyes

Fantasque Sans Mono

My Recommendation for Fantasque Sans Mono

My Recommendation for Fantasque Sans Mono

Luculent

My Recommendation for Luculent

My Recommendation for Luculent

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