Maple Mono: open-source monospace font with round corner

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Maple Mono is an open source monospace font focused on smoothing your coding flow.

I create it to enhance my working experience, and hope that it can be useful to others.

V7 is a completely remade version, providing variable font format and source files of font project, redesigning more than half of the glyphs and offering smarter ligatures. You can checkout V6 here

• ✨ Variable - Infinity font weights with fine-grained italic glyphs.
• ☁️ Smooth - Round corner, brand-new glyph of @ $ % & Q -> and cursive f i j k l x y in italic style.
• 💪 Useful - Large amount of smart ligatures, see in features/
• 🎨 Icon - First-Class Nerd-Font support, make your terminal more vivid.
• 🔨 Customize - Enable or disable font features as you want, just make your own font.

CN version based on Resource Han Rounded provides complete character set support for Chinese development environments, including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese. Meanwhile, the characteristic of perfect 2:1 alignment between Chinese and English allows this font to achieve a neat, uniform, beautiful, and comfortable appearance in scenarios such as multilingual display and Markdown tables. However, the spacing of Chinese characters is larger compared to other popular Chinese fonts. See details in release notes and this issue.

• Pictured by CodeImg
• Theme: Maple
• Config: font size 16px, line height 1.8, default letter spacing

You can download all the font archives from Releases.

ArchLinuxCN repository allows downloading a single package zip file without downloading all the package zip files in pkgbase, but AUR does not. (If you have a good solution, please contact Cyberczy([email protected]))

• fontsource
• ZeoSeven Fonts

• The Chinese Web Fonts Plan (中文网字计划)
• ZeoSeven Fonts

See in document or try it in Playground

• Ligature: Default version with ligatures (Maple Mono)
• No-Ligature: Default version without ligatures (Maple Mono NL)
• Normal-Ligature: --normal preset with ligatures (Maple Mono Normal)
• Normal-No-Ligature: --normal preset without ligatures (Maple Mono Normal NL)

• Variable: Minimal version, smoothly change font weight by variable
• TTF: Minimal version, ttf format [Recommend!]
• OTF: Minimal version, otf format
• WOFF2: Minimal version, woff2 format, for small size on web pages
• NF: Nerd-Font patched version, add icons for terminal (With -NF suffix)
• CN: Chinese version, embed with Chinese and Japanese glyphs (With -CN suffix)
• NF-CN: Full version, embed with icons, Chinese and Japanese glyphs (With -NF-CN suffix)

• Hinted font is used for low resolution screen to have better render effect. From my experience, if your screen resolution is lower or equal than 1080P, it is recommended to use "hinted font". Using "unhinted font" will lead to misalignment or uneven thickness on your text.
  • In this case, you can choose MapleMono-TTF-AutoHint / MapleMono-NF / MapleMono-NF-CN, etc.
• Unhinted font is used for high resolution screen (e.g. for MacBook). Using "hinted font" will blur your text or make it looks weird.
  • In this case, you can choose MapleMono-OTF / MapleMono-TTF / MapleMono-NF-unhinted / MapleMono-NF-CN-unhinted, etc.
• Why there exists -AutoHint and -unhinted suffix?
  • for backward compatibility, I keep the original naming scheme. -AutoHint is only used for TTF format.

The config.json file is used to configure the build process. Checkout the schema or document for more details.

There also have some command line options for customizing the build process. Cli options have higher priority than options in config.json.

Go to Playground, and click "Custom Build" button in the bottom left corner

You can use Github Actions to build the font.

1. Fork the repo
2. (Optional) Change the content in config.json
3. Go to Actions tab
4. Click on Custom Build menu item on the left
5. Click on Run workflow button with options setup
6. Wait for the build to finish
7. Download the font archives from Releases

Clone the repo and run on your local machine. Make sure you have python3 and pip installed

• For Ubuntu or Debian, maybe python-is-python3 is needed as well

If you have trouble installing the dependencies, just create a new GitHub Codespace and run the commands there

If you just want to get fixed width icons, setup "nerd_font.mono": true in config.json or add --nf-mono flag to build script args.

For custom font-patcher args, font-forge (and maybe python3-fontforge as well) is required.

Maybe you should also change "nerd_font.extra_args" in config.json

Default args: -l --careful --outputdir dir

• if "nerd_font.mono" is true, then add --mono

Run build.py with --normal flag, make the font looks not such "Opinioned" , just like JetBrains Mono (with slashed zero).

If you are using variable font (NOT recommended), please enable calt to make all features work.

Enabled features:

Online Preview

There are three kinds of options for feature freeze (Why):

1. enable: Forcely enable the features without setting up cvXX / ssXX / zero in font features config, just as default glyphs / ligatures
2. disable: Remove the features in cvXX / ssXX / zero, which will no longer effect, even if you enable it manually
3. ignore: Do nothing

OpenType Feature is used to control the font's built-in variants and ligatures. You can remove some ligatures or features you don't want to, change feature's trigger rule or add some new rules by modifying OpenType Feature.

By default, the Python module in source/py/feature/ will generate feature rule string and load it at build time. You can modify the features or customize tags there.

If you would like to modify the feature file instead, run build.py with --apply-fea-file flag, the feature file from source/features/{regular,italic}.fea will be loaded.

CN version is disabled by default. Run python build.py with --cn flag, the CN base fonts (about 130 MB) will download from GitHub.

If you want to build CN base fonts from variable (about 35 MB), setup "cn.use_static_base_font": false in config.json and BE PATIENT, instantiation will take about 20-30 minutes.

If you think that CN glyphs spacing is TOOOOOO large, there is a build option cn.narrow or cli flag --cn-narrow to narrow spacing in CN glyphs, but this will make the font cannot be recogized as monospaced font.

You can see effect in #249.

The build script will auto download required assets from GitHub. If you have trouble downloading, please setup github_mirror in config.json or $GITHUB to your environment variable. (Target URL will be https://<github_mirror>/<user>/<repo>/releases/download/<tag>/<file>), or just download the target .zip file and put it in the same directory as build.py.

By enabling cv99, all Chinese punctuation marks will be centred. See more details in #150

Using FontLab or Glyphs, generate variable TTF into source/ folder.

• JetBrains Mono
• Roboto Mono
• Fira Code
• Victor Mono
• Commit Mono
• Code Sample
• Nerd Font
• Font Freeze
• Font Viewer
• Monolisa
• Recursive

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SIL Open Font License 1.1