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Irfan Ali
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Myna: monospace font for symbol-first editing experience

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.

Showcase:

Myna

Bash

Perl

HTML

Haskell

Rust

Features:

  • 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 Glyphs: 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

Link: https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna

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