Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font
The Iosevka’s monospace family is provided in a slender outfit by default: glyphs are exactly 1/2em wide. Compared to the competitors, you could fit more columns within the same screen width.
Iosevka provides two widths, Normal and Extended. If you prefer more breeze between the character, choose Extended and enjoy.
Terminal emulators have a stricter compatibility requirements for fonts. Therefore, Iosevka and Iosevka Slab all contain two specialized families, Term and Fixed, targeting terminal users.
In these families, the symbols will be narrower to follow terminals’ ideology of column count. In the Fixed families, the ligation will be disabled to ensure better compatibility in certain environments.
Iosevka provides 146 configurable characters with 19 stylistic sets, which gives you incredible ability to customize one variant that fills exactly what you need. You can either select one pre-defined stylistic set, or cherry-pick your flavor.
Iosevka’s monospace families supports not only one ligation set, but also language-specific ligations. Enable the corresponded OpenType feature in your editor, and the correct ligation will appear.
Leveraging advanced OpenType techniques, Iosevka also supports long ligatures like long arrows or horizontal bars built up with equal signs.
The quasi-proportional families: Iosevka Aile, and Iosevka Etoile, are made for documents and writing. They provide more variety on character widths, including a slightly wider letter w and m, and narrower i and l.