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# Brutalist Mono

Brutalist Mono is a very simple modification on top of DejaVu Sans Mono, making it more suitable for coding. The changes are very nitpicky and you can probably just move along.
Brutalist Mono is a very simple modification on top of DejaVu Sans Mono (yes, _another one_), making it more suitable for coding. The changes are very nitpicky and you can probably just move along.

## Changes from DejaVu Sans Mono

* moved lowercase `r` a little bit to the left
* increased underscore height
* made minus sign wider
* increased underscore height, reduced its width
* made the minus sign wider
* slashed instead of dotted zero

## Motivation

Another DejaVu Sans Mono / Bitstream Vera Mono clone? Yes. But this one is opinionated:

1. I don't care about "readability on small font sizes". Make your font larger and/or get a decent monitor. It's the 21st century.
2. I don't care about font hinting. Modern monitors are high-DPI. If you care about font hinting, try some other DejaVu mod.
2. I don't care about font hinting. Modern monitors are high-DPI.
3. I don't care about `O0`, `lI1|`, or any of that crap. It's good enough. See point #1.

If any of this bothers you, try [Hack](https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack). It's awesome.
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* the parentheses are unnecessarily spread out in earlier versions, and too rounded in newer ones
* the `1` has an awkward downward facing arm
* contributing is hard if you're only using plain old FontForge (I don't want to shell out EUR 250 for Glyphs.app)
* [alt-hack](https://github.com/source-foundry/alt-hack) is great but I ended up just using it to revert most mods back to the original DejaVu style, so I figured why bother
* contributing is complicated if you're only using plain old FontForge (I don't want to shell out EUR 250 for Glyphs.app)
* [alt-hack](https://github.com/source-foundry/alt-hack) is great but I ended up just using it to revert most mods back to the original DejaVu style, so I figured why bother?

### Why not Menlo?

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This typeface is almost perfect for programming, except:

* the underscore is ridiculously thin, making it visually odd when reading `THINGS_WITH_MANY_UNDERSCORES` et al.
* the lowercase `r` is offset a bit to the right (Hack has this right – once you see it, you can not unsee it)
* the underscore is ridiculously thin, making it visually odd when reading `THINGS_WITH_MANY_UNDERSCORES` and esoteric C/C++ identifiers with `__multiple__underscores__`
* the lowercase `r` is offset a bit to the right (Hack has got this right – once you see it, you can not unsee it)
* the `-` glyph is ridiculously narrow

## Building
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