A Family of Four Faces
Hack includes monospaced regular, bold, italic, and bold italic sets to cover all of your syntax highlighting needs.
Multilingual
Over 1500 glyphs that include lovingly tuned extended Latin, modern Greek, and Cyrillic character sets.
Powerline Support
Powerline glyphs are included in the regular set. Patching is not necessary. Install and go.
A Workhorse for Code
No frills. No gimmicks.
Hack is hand groomed and optically balanced to be your go-to code face.
Glyphs
Contributors
Features
Metrics & Style
Type design features to improve legibility in the harsh conditions of the screen.
- Minimal stroke contrast
- Large x-height
- Open counters
- Wide apertures
- Sturdy terminals
Type Traits
Functional
with a bit of personality
- Oval fill in the zero counter
- Curved tails on select glyphs
- Rounded square alphabetic points
- Round analphabetic points
- Semi-bold punctuation weight
- Angled vertical tails & extenders
- Widely set punctuation
Free and Open Source
A libre typeface with generous licensing that permits modification & commercial use
- Free to modify
- Free for print, desktop, & web
- Free for commercial use
- Free to redistribute
- Free of cost
A typeface in the Bitstream Vera lineage
Hack has deep roots in the libre, open source typeface community and includes the contributions of the Bitstream Vera & DejaVu projects.
The face has been re-designed with an expanded glyph set, modifications of the original glyph shapes, and meticulous attention to metrics.
The Cast of Characters
Letters, punctuation, and symbols are well-balanced and easily distinguished.
The regular weight is comfortable to read at the small text sizes used for source code development.
Click either image above for a full type specimen.
Source Examples
Distinct Glyph Shapes
A Handful of Serifs
Strategically placed serifs improve the rhythm of the monospaced text by eliminating large gaps on each side of narrow characters and help to distinguish glyphs like the lowercase l and number 1 at small text sizes.
Weight and Spacing
The punctuation characters were designed with a heavier semi-bold weight in the regular font and are set with wide sidebearings on the side adjacent to alphabetic characters. These design strategies emphasize these important analphabetic characters and make them more apparent (or less transparent) in your code.
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