Dank Mono - The rather special coding font

I am no master typesetter, just a dude with a love for typography, and I'd like to offer my two cents— First impression is somewhat mixed, some characters are almost perfect, while most glyphs ooze with an amateurish feel. But as you said, you're a developer who made this typeface, so hats off to you! Next, the ultra-minute features are better off in a display typeface rather than a monospace coding font. They are way too small to make a difference, and I don't agree with the "contribute to the overall feel of the font." statement you made. The 'f' is brilliant. That is a feature that really gets noticed. But it stops there. The stroke contrast is glaringly inconsistent across glyphs, even more so in the Italic version. Some of those finials could use some rework. The italics is a bit of an overkill, in my opinion. I really hate Operator Mono, it lacks the subtle elegance of many of the costlier monospace typefaces, and sadly, this too falls in that bucket. Dank Mono is one of those products that will polarise users— they either love it or hate it. Personally, I think the normal version is brilliant for a first attempt, and I hate the italic variant. That said, I'd love to see a v2, there's a lot of potential here. And oh, its way too expensive at $40, without an trial, that too.

we as developers look at the screen all the time so colors and fonts are important thing to us so, i dedicate time to customize my editor to look comfort to me, but i will not spend 40$ to get just a font and there's an alternative open-source and free. it just doesn't make sense.

Pros:

it actually looks cool

Cons:

why i would pay 40$ to get it.

using consolas with injected ligatures.

Pros:

good looking font

Cons:

$40 for non commercial

I have been on the fence for well over a year trying to decide if I wanted to purchase the Operator Mono font (it is quite pricey) and then along comes Dank Mono. Well, easily 6 months, I decided to pull the trigger! This font is awesome, well worth the cost of supporting a developer who has devoted time and energy. As a software development who gets paid for writing code, I think supporting a product such as this is the least I can do. Love it!

We have decent free fonts to work with why would anyone pay 40 bucks to use a font in his editor ?

Pros:

Nice looking

Cons:

$40 ?!

Looks really beautiful, and I might be getting my first code font! What happened to that lowercase italic ’d’ though? Perhaps the $40 price tag ripped it apart?

Umm...anybody (3 or 4 devs) wanna split this license?

Tried to purchase, got an error about my zip code. There is no way to contact the author, not even an e-mail address on the website. So I will not purchase this, seems like the most basic thing is to at least put up a contact e-mail to deal with issues.

monospace and handwriting letter should not meant to be mixed.

Pros:

is there any?

Cons:

that handwriting letter s

Contrary to other views, I'm happy to support this project and £40 really isn't much in that regard — not everything has to be open-source/free. Thanks for creating this Phil.

Pros:

Beautiful.

Cons:

None really, license is flexible and purchase was easy.