monaspace vs Sarasa-Gothic

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monaspace		Sarasa-Gothic
	Project
24	Mentions	7
12,640	Stars	9,534
4.4%	Growth	-
7.6	Activity	8.3
6 days ago	Latest Commit	12 days ago
TypeScript	Language	JavaScript
SIL Open Font License 1.1	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.

monaspace

Posts with mentions or reviews of monaspace. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-05.

Tools that keep me productive
14 projects | dev.to | 5 May 2024

I was a big fan of the Dank Mono for the longest time, but GitHub released a bunch of monospaced fonts this year and I've been loving Monaspace Krypton.
Monaspace font 1.1 released
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2024
Monaspace: An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2024

2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2024

I'd love to see a demo of how it might look used in practise, with multiple fonts used to display semantic meaning on a page of code. I see on the website they have a demo where you can switch between them (https://monaspace.githubnext.com/#learn-more) but it's not easy to imagine how it would look with them mixed on the same page
What is your top favorite font?
1 project | /r/graphic_design | 8 Dec 2023

Recent project: Monaspace
What font are you using and why?
5 projects | /r/vscode | 6 Dec 2023
which Font do you use?
16 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
Turning on font "smart kerning" or "texture healing" in Emacs
4 projects | /r/emacs | 25 Nov 2023

The Commit Mono font has a feature that it calls "smart kerning". Monaspace has a similar feature that it calls "texture healing." Characters are moved around slightly, or swapped out for a slightly larger or smaller character to even out the spacing, for example, when a wide character like an 'm' is followed by a narrow character like an 'l'.
Berkeley Mono Typeface
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2023
Monaspace
1 project | /r/freefonts | 17 Nov 2023

Sarasa-Gothic

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sarasa-Gothic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-18.

Berkeley Mono Typeface
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2023

You could try Sarasa Gothic, which is made by the same person who made Iosevka.
Github Link: https://github.com/be5invis/Sarasa-Gothic
Specimen (made by someone else): https://picaq.github.io/sarasa/
Iosevka typeface for code, from code. Has styles like Fira Mono, Consolas, Menlo
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023

See also SARASA GOTHIC, a CJK programming font based on Iosevka and Source Han Sans.
https://github.com/be5invis/Sarasa-Gothic
Chinese characters overlapping in org title; any suggestions?
2 projects | /r/emacs | 25 Jun 2022

Have you tried setting a font with explicit CJK support like Sarasa Gothic? I assume that if it’s using a font fallback, the letter spacing difference between the first font and the fallback might cause this to happen.
Do you like Iosevka?
4 projects | /r/fonts | 19 Nov 2021

It is a pretty good font, especially given that it is 1/2em wide and can fit more stuff on screen (and actually align to CJK characters: see Sarasa font by the same maker)
Preferred Monospace Font?
13 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Sep 2021
Is it common for simplified characters to have variations while typing? Notepadd++ renders 喝 differently.
1 project | /r/ChineseLanguage | 18 Jan 2021

If you're a programmer, I strongly suggest you to download Sarasa Term (Gothic is proportional, Term is fixed-width) as it is a beautiful Chinese (programming) font that is also open-source. (Do use SC ver for Simplified Chinese, also CL ver looks better for Traditional Chinese compared to TC ver)
[dwm] Horses for courses
1 project | /r/UsabilityPorn | 24 Dec 2020

OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed WM: dwm Terminal: st Font family: Iosevka Japanese font family: Sarasa Gothic Editor: vim

What are some alternatives?

When comparing monaspace and Sarasa-Gothic you can also consider the following projects:

FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

Iosevka - Versatile typeface for code, from code.

juliamono - repository for JuliaMono, a monospaced font with reasonable Unicode support.

css-modular-type - A PostCSS and TailwindCSS plugin to generate modular type scales.

terminalizer - 🦄 Record your terminal and generate animated gif images or share a web player

pretendard - 어느 플랫폼에서든 사용할 수 있는 system-ui 대체 글꼴 | A system-ui alternative font for all cross-platform

source-code-pro - Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments

Lilex - 🤘Open source programming font

cascadia-code - This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.

pragmatapro - PragmataPro font is designed to help pros to work better

Inconsolata - Development repo of Inconsolata Fonts by Raph Levien