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Enlarge / An illustration of the Monocraft font successful action, which is based connected Minecraft.
North Carolina-based developer Idrees Hassan loves Minecraft truthful overmuch that helium precocious created a monospaced font for programming based connected the typeface recovered successful the wildly fashionable video game. The result, Monocraft, gives programmers the consciousness of being successful Minecraft without utilizing immoderate assets from the crippled itself.
"To beryllium honest, I made this font due to the fact that I thought it'd beryllium amusive to larn however fonts worked," Hassan told Ars. "Existing Minecraft fonts were missing a clump of tiny details similar due kerning and pixel size, truthful I figured I should marque my own. Once that was done, determination was thing stopping maine from going overboard and turning it into a 'proper' programming font. Plus, present I tin constitute Minecraft plugins successful a Minecraft font!"
To accommodate the Minecraft font for improvement purposes, Hassan redesigned characters to look amended successful a monospaced format, added a fewer serifs to marque letters specified arsenic "i" and "l" easier to distinguish, created caller programming ligature characters, and refined the arrow characters to marque them easier to read. (Ligature characters harvester fashionable operational quality strings specified arsenic "!=" into a azygous caller character, but they aren't ever popular with developers.)
You tin download Monocraft from GitHub for escaped (get "Monocraft.otf" connected the Releases page). It's not endorsed by Microsoft oregon Mojang and should beryllium considered a instrumentality project. As an OpenType font, it works connected Windows, Mac, oregon Linux. To instal it connected Windows, right-click the font record and prime "Install." On a Mac, double-click the font record and prime "Install Font" successful the Font Book model that appears.
Previously, Hassan created an authentic reproduction of the Minecraft typeface that features adaptable spacing similar the font successful the game. It's available connected GitHub arsenic well.
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson primitively designed the Minecraft font for an earlier crippled called Legend of the Chambered, circa 2008. The Minecraft typeface incorporates retro pixel-art benignant that hearkens backmost to 8-bit and 16-bit console games, which was a cleanable lucifer for Notch's lo-fi creation style. Now it has recovered a caller relation arsenic a playful font for developers everywhere.
