commit-mono vs Lilex

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commit-mono		Lilex
	Project
7	Mentions	2
1,061	Stars	661
-	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	8.0
18 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
-	License	SIL Open Font License 1.1

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

commit-mono

Posts with mentions or reviews of commit-mono. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

Intel One Mono
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024

I've been using Commit Mono for the past 6 months or so and love the clarity at small sizes (for my eyes, at least). Before that, I mainly used Source Code Pro and Comic Mono. My long term friend is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
https://commitmono.com/
which Font do you use?
16 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023

Personal customized CommitMono (ligature enabled).
Turning on font "smart kerning" or "texture healing" in Emacs
4 projects | /r/emacs | 25 Nov 2023

I found the Commit Mono kerning feature in its repo here. It classifies common ascii characters into "narrow", "normal", "larger", and "widest" sizes, and repositions them based on what they appear next too.
Monaspace
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2023

Commit Mono font does something similar and calls it “Smart kerning”. Visit https://commitmono.com/ and click on the “04 Intelligent” for details.
In practice this is unusable. Because the width of the letters now depends on the succeeding character, the text jumps as you write it. Super annoying.
Cool for reading. Awful for writing.
Commit Mono Font - An Anonymous and Neutral Programming Typeface Focused On Creating a Better Reading Experience
1 project | /r/programming | 7 Sep 2023
Commit Mono: neutral programming typeface for a better reading experience
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2023

Lilex

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lilex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.

which Font do you use?
16 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023

I've been using Lilex recently to change things up from the more common options that I've used over the last few years.
Modern Mono
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023

I'm a big fan of Lilex and use it currently: https://github.com/mishamyrt/Lilex. I think it looks quite a bit like Inconsolata which I used to use a long time ago.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing commit-mono and Lilex you can also consider the following projects:

victor-mono - A free programming font with cursive italics and ligatures. Donations welcome ❤️

atkinson-monolegible - An attempt at converting the Atkinson Hyperlegible font to monospace

maple-font - [testing V7] Maple Mono: Open source monospace font with round corner, ligatures and Nerd-Font for IDE and command line. 带连字和控制台图标的圆角等宽字体，中英文宽度完美2:1

pragmasevka - Pragmata Pro doppelgänger made of Iosevka SS08

FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

hasubi-mono - A horizontal contrast monospace typeface designed by Eli Heuer. This is an alpha quality pre-1.0 typeface, not ready for use and currently under development. 🚧

variable - Variable width font for coding

nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

monaspace - An innovative superfamily of fonts for code

recursive - Recursive Mono & Sans is a variable font family for code & UI