nerd-fonts VS Iosevka

Compare nerd-fonts vs Iosevka and see what are their differences.

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 (by ryanoasis)
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nerd-fonts Iosevka
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nerd-fonts

Posts with mentions or reviews of nerd-fonts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
  • jokermanBestFont
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 11 Dec 2023
    Use any nerd fonts
  • which Font do you use?
    16 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
    SourceCodePro: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/SourceCodePro
  • Neovim Nerd Font icons are available!
    1 project | /r/neovim | 23 Nov 2023
    Hot off the press: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.1.0
  • Berkeley Mono Typeface
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2023
    It's a bit expensive, and I can understand if someone can't or doesn't want to spend money on it. I would recommend to check out the free fonts 'JetBains Mono' & 'Hack' to these people.

    Some people have already mentioned here that Berkeley Mono is not available as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher).

  • NvChad - multiple different client offset_encodings detected for buffer
    1 project | /r/neovim | 4 Nov 2023
    I'm using Neovim v0.9.1 on Ubuntu 23.04 with NvChad. I've also installed the JetBrainsMono font, as NvChad requires a Nerd Font, but nothing besides that and I haven't edited any settings or nvim files and I haven't installed any additional plugins.
  • Nerd Fonts
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2023
  • JetBrains Mono Typeface
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
    There are a lot of code fonts on HN today. Rather than make a new post I will talk about some of my favorite that are a little less common. None of these are free I don't think.

    Cartograph CF - The one I've been using for code for years. Very readable, almost "comic mono"-like choices of some of the lower case glyphs but in a good way. All the character is in the italic which you will either love or hate.

    Quadraat sans mono - The entire quadraat family is a collection of masterpieces imo, but are generally too distinctive to be appropriate for most public-facing work. But it's your computer so who cares. I use the mono sans one for my terminal. The lowercase f seems so out of place there but you learn to love it.

    Alegreya sans - Not a mono font, but it almost is so if you've ever flirted with proportional fonts for code this is a fun one to try. There is a lot of careful line width variation that gives a lot of the appearance and readability advantages of serifs but keeps most of the visual coherence of sans.

    I like all of these because they look feel more like normal fonts rather than code fonts. They have careful variation that adds character and improves readability for me. I've switched to an almost-no-color code theme that uses font weight instead, and the details like this become more important that way.

    And then only kind of related but if you want to use unusual fonts in your terminal but you have a complex prompt setup, install font forge and learn to use something like https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/font-pat... to patch in the extra characters. This can also solve your "I love this font but want a dotted zero" type problems as well. Small skill investment for a small return over a long period of time. You'll always be using fonts.

  • Compiler.nvim: Oficially released (beta)
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 19 Jun 2023
    It is FiraCode Nerd Font Mono:size=16. You can find it here. On arch linux you can just install the nerd-fonts and it's included there.
  • Need help: NvChad v2.0 doesn't display font icons correctly with CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Jun 2023
  • Not sure what icon I'm missing here
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Jun 2023
    I'm assuming you're using a Nerd Font already, since I see the Rust logo and folder icons in your terminal. However, it's possible that your particular font is based on Nerd Font 2.x and the newest version is 3.x. Maybe try scanning your Lua config with nerdfix to identify whether the diagnostics icons you have set (among others) are using outdated 2.x character codes. If they are, try replacing them in your config, and also try upgrading your terminal's Nerd Font compliant font to the latest version (NF's GitHub release page says 3.0.1 is the newest version). Hope this helps your troubleshooting efforts!

Iosevka

Posts with mentions or reviews of Iosevka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-01.
  • Git Things
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    > 80 should be fine for most single lines of good code in most languages.

    C++ with even a modest template will flow over 80 without much effort.

    I'm now using the condensed width font Iosevka font [1] with 160 chars as my max width in clang-format and indents at 1.

    After a few days of using it, I'm converted. It was a bit odd looking at first, but I guess that's brain plasticity at work.

    1. https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases

  • Name the font, please
    1 project | /r/neovim | 10 Dec 2023
    iosevka
  • which Font do you use?
    16 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
    https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka is the best
  • Monaspace
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2023
    Sadly I think that because of that flag it does not enable ligatures.

    I was able to see ligatures and text healing in vim running in a patched st* though. I really like it thanks! The text healing only moves the line subtly as I type and when I cursor over there are no droppings from the widened 'm' for example. It's well thought-out for code.

    If I could ask for a feature it would be to select some variants, like angular 0 with reverse slash or to leave the ! in the != ligature. To see what I mean: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/main/doc/stylistic-...

    * https://st.suckless.org/patches/ligatures/

  • I had no idea that one company basically owns every font
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Aug 2023
    Iosevka is a fantastic open-source font that's fully customizable. I have replaced the fixed font on all of my devices and apps to a custom Iosevka build I made, and I don't think I'll ever turn back.

    https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

  • Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2023
    Misremembered about Iosevka: I requested support for a few other BQN characters after noticing it already had the double-struck ones (https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/issues/870). The other three were requests or contributions (drew 3270's 𝕏 myself!) explicitly in connection with BQN.
  • Iosevka typeface for code, from code
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 22 Jul 2023
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 21 Jul 2023
  • JetBrains Mono Typeface
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
    Nothing beats Iosevka (https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka) for me. It's narrow yet super readable, making great use of screen real estate. Lots of customization, ligatures, weights, and a nerd font patch for terminal.
  • Iosevka typeface for code, from code. Has styles like Fira Mono, Consolas, Menlo
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
    > Monospace Iosevka contains various stylistic sets to change the shape of certain characters

    That's what's on display at the linked URL (if anyone else was confused)

    You can also select variants for specific characters: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/main/doc/character-...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nerd-fonts and Iosevka you can also consider the following projects:

FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

vscode-lean - Extension for VS Code that provides support for the older Lean 3 language. Succeeded by vscode-lean4 ('lean4' in the extensions menu) for the Lean 4 language.

Visual Studio Code - Public documentation for Visual Studio Code

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.

powerline - Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

JetBrainsMonoSlashed - JetBrains Mono Slashed – the free and open-source typeface for developers, now with slashed zero

bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script. See also https://github.com/riobard/zsh-powerline

JetBrainsMono - JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers

Hack - A typeface designed for source code

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

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