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<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="images/hero_light.png">
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<img alt="Perl" src="https://example.com/hero_light.png">
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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?
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Want to experience the beauty of ligatures without losing the simplicity of ASCII?
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**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.
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## Why Myna?
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Myna was born 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.
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Here are a few of its attractive features that might make it your next favourite monospace font:
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- **Symbol-First Design**: clear emphasis on ASCII symbols which are ubiquitous in programming languages
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- **Near-Perfect Alignment**: multi-character symbols like `->`, `>>=`, `=~`, `::` align seamlessly
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- **Balanced Weight**: symbols have just the right visual weight against your code
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- **Minimalist Forms**: geometric shapes for quotes and commas
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- **Clear Distinction**: no more confusing `1 l I |` or `0 O o`
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- **Language-Aware Design**: clean sigils for Perl + elegant operators for Haskell + clear symbols for C
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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.
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## Showcase
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<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="images/Perl_dark.png">
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<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="images/Perl_light.png">
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<img alt="Perl" src="https://example.com/Perl_light.png">
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</picture>
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<picture>
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<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="images/C_dark.png">
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<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="images/C_light.png">
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<img alt="C" src="https://example.com/C_light.png">
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</picture>
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Here is a comparison between some popular monospace fonts with Myna (at the bottom in different color). The list of the fonts used could be found in the script [mkcomp](scripts/mkcomp). Myna tries to emulate the smooth look of ligatures but also retains the simplicity of ASCII.
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<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="images/comp_dark.png">
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<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="images/comp_light.png">
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<img alt="Perl" src="https://example.com/comp_light.png">
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</picture>
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Please click on the images below to view it in full in a new tab.
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| Language | Light | Dark |
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| **Perl** | <img src="images/Perl_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/Perl_dark.png" width="500"> |
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| **Haskell** | <img src="images/Haskell_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/Haskell_dark.png" width="500"> |
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| **C** | <img src="images/C_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/C_dark.png" width="500"> |
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| **Bash** | <img src="images/Bash_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/Bash_dark.png" width="500"> |
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| **Clojure** | <img src="images/Clojure_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/Clojure_dark.png" width="500"> |
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| **Erlang** | <img src="images/Erlang_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/Erlang_dark.png" width="500"> |
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| **OCaml** | <img src="images/OCaml_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/OCaml_dark.png" width="500"> |
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| **Rust** | <img src="images/Rust_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/Rust_dark.png" width="500"> |
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| **LaTeX** | <img src="images/LaTeX_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/LaTeX_dark.png" width="500"> |
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| **HTML** | <img src="images/HTML_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/HTML_dark.png" width="500"> |
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| **SQL** | <img src="images/SQL_light.png" width="500"> | <img src="images/SQL_dark.png" width="500"> |
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## Installation
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### Linux
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```bash
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git clone https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna.git
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cd Myna
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cp Myna.otf ~/.local/share/fonts/
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fc-cache -v
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```
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### macOS
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```bash
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git clone https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna.git
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cd Myna
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cp Myna.otf ~/Library/Fonts/
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```
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### Windows
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1. Download the release
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2. Right-click `Myna.otf` and select "Install for all users"
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## License
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SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
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## Credits
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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. Detailed credits could be found in the Hera repository.
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Code banner and illustrations were produced using ImageMagick and [Ray.so](https://ray.so).
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## Future
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Myna is designed to be used universally in every kind of terminal and editor. I've tried to include a reasonable subset of non-ASCII glyphs (mostly geometrical and mathematical characters). However, I'm considering expanding it based on community interest and would welcome contributions in these areas:
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- Bug Reports: spacing and kerning issues, rendering problems, unavailable/incorrect glyphs
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- Feature Requests: suggest new glyphs or features via GitHub Issues
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Please feel free to open issues and also contact me at irfan@irfanali.org.
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