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Do you ever feel like your font treats symbols as second-class glyphs? Are you frustrated that `->` looks nothing like an arrow, and `$`, `@`, `%` seem ever mismatched?
Want to experience the beauty of ligatures without losing the simplicity of ASCII.

**Myna** (*Gracula religiosa* 🐦‍⬛) is a monospace font which aims to bring harmony to your editor by treating symbols as first-class glyphs alongside alphanumeric characters.

## Why Myna?
Myna was borne out of a need to scratch a persistent typographical itch. While I've tried many otherwise well-crafted monospace fonts, I always found myself wanting to tweak a glyph here or adjust a shape there. After developing Myna and using it almost exclusively in my professional and personal work, I'm sharing it as a small contribution to the wonderful community of monospace typography enthusiasts.

Here are a few of its attractive features that might make it your next favourite monospace font:
- **Symbol-First Design**: clear emphasis on ASCII symbols which are ubiquitous in programming languages
- **Near-Perfect Alignment**: multi-character symbols like `->`, `>>=`, `=~`, `::` align seamlessly
- **Balanced Weight**: symbols have just the right visual weight against your code
- **Minimalist Forms**: geometric shapes for quotes and commas
- **Clear Distinction**: no more confusing `1 l I |` or `0 O o`
- **Language-Aware Design**: clean sigils for Perl + elegant operators for Haskell + clear symbols for C

NB: Myna is designed to be a simple font. The current release is a single weight without ligatures, though future updates may expand its features if demand arises. It does work out nicely with synthesised bold generated by fontconfig and pango on Linux.

## Showcase
<picture>
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)"  srcset="images/Perl_dark.png">
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="images/Perl_light.png">
  <img alt="Perl" src="https://example.com/Perl_light.png">
</picture>

<picture>
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)"  srcset="images/Haskell_dark.png">
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="images/Haskell_light.png">
  <img alt="Haskell" src="https://example.com/Haskell_light.png">
</picture>

<picture>
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)"  srcset="images/C_dark.png">
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="images/C_light.png">
  <img alt="C" src="https://example.com/C_light.png">
</picture>


| Language | Light | Dark |
|----------|-------|------|
|  **Perl**     |  <img  src="images/Perl_light.png"     width="500">  |  <img  src="images/Perl_dark.png"     width="500">  |
|  **Haskell**  |  <img  src="images/Haskell_light.png"  width="500">  |  <img  src="images/Haskell_dark.png"  width="500">  |
|  **C**        |  <img  src="images/C_light.png"        width="500">  |  <img  src="images/C_dark.png"        width="500">  |
|  **Bash**     |  <img  src="images/Bash_light.png"     width="500">  |  <img  src="images/Bash_dark.png"     width="500">  |
|  **Clojure**  |  <img  src="images/Clojure_light.png"  width="500">  |  <img  src="images/Clojure_dark.png"  width="500">  |
|  **Erlang**   |  <img  src="images/Erlang_light.png"   width="500">  |  <img  src="images/Erlang_dark.png"   width="500">  |
|  **OCaml**    |  <img  src="images/OCaml_light.png"    width="500">  |  <img  src="images/OCaml_dark.png"    width="500">  |
|  **Ruby**     |  <img  src="images/Ruby_light.png"     width="500">  |  <img  src="images/Ruby_dark.png"     width="500">  |
|  **Rust**     |  <img  src="images/Rust_light.png"     width="500">  |  <img  src="images/Rust_dark.png"     width="500">  |
|  **LaTeX**    |  <img  src="images/LaTeX_light.png"    width="500">  |  <img  src="images/LaTeX_dark.png"    width="500">  |
|  **HTML**     |  <img  src="images/HTML_light.png"     width="500">  |  <img  src="images/HTML_dark.png"     width="500">  |
|  **SQL**      |  <img  src="images/SQL_light.png"      width="500">  |  <img  src="images/SQL_dark.png"      width="500">  |

## Installation
### Linux
```bash
git clone https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna.git
cd Myna
cp Myna.otf ~/.local/share/fonts/
fc-cache -v
```

### macOS
```bash
git clone https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna.git
cd Myna
cp Myna.otf ~/Library/Fonts/
```

### Windows
1. Download the release
2. Right-click `Myna.otf` and select "Install for all users"

## License
SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1

## Credits
Myna started out as [Hera](https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Hera.git) which was a customised version of Source Code Pro but now has come a long way after stealing many beautiful designs from Fira Mono, Inconsolata, Plex Mono, Office Code Pro, Anonymous Pro.

## Contributions
Myna is designed to be used universally in every kind of terminal and editor. If you find it lacking in some non-ASCII glyph and want it to be added, please feel free to open issues. You can also contact me at irfan@irfanali.org.