Developer creates delightful programming font based on Minecraft

guest · Sep 7, 2022

"The font for developers who like Minecraft a bit too much."
By Benj Edwards @benjedwards - September 7, 2022

North Carolina-based developer Idrees Hassan loves Minecraft so much that he recently created a monospaced font for programming based on the typeface found in the wildly popular video game. The result, Monocraft, gives programmers the feel of being in Minecraft without using any assets from the game.

"To be honest, I made this font because I thought it'd be fun to learn how fonts worked," Hassan told Ars. "Existing Minecraft fonts were missing a bunch of small details like proper kerning and pixel size, so I figured I should make my own. Once that was done, there was nothing stopping me from going overboard and turning it into a 'proper' programming font. Plus, now I can write Minecraft plugins in a Minecraft font!"
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To adapt the Minecraft font for development purposes, Hassan redesigned characters to look better in a monospaced format, added a few serifs to make letters such as "i" and "l" easier to distinguish, created new programming ligature characters, and refined the arrow characters to make them easier to read. (Ligature characters combine popular operational character strings such as "!=" into a single new character, but they aren't always popular with developers.)
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You can download Monocraft from GitHub for free (get "Monocraft.otf" on the Releases page).
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Previously, Hassan created an authentic reproduction of the Minecraft typeface that features variable spacing like the font in the game. It's available on GitHub as well.
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guest · Oct 6, 2022

Monocraft 1.4 Released (October 6, 2022)
Website
Download (Releases)

1.4
What's Changed
• Added Missing Hungarian letters by @gorbit99 in #38
Full Changelog: v1.3...v1.4

1.3 (September 14, 2022)
• Add support for 96 new Cyrillic glyphs by @kpostnov in #36
Full Changelog: v1.2...v1.3
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v1.2 (September 7, 2022)
• Significantly improve rendering on Windows by increasing the em size
• Fix bold font not displaying correctly in Windows
v1.1 (September 7, 2022)
• Renamed the font to "Monocraft"
• Updated the curly braces to look less like parentheses
• SIL Open Font License 1.1 added
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