I will confess to not being a fan. Characters seem too keen to fill their boxes; i had to bump up the line spacing in my IDE before code was at all legible, and even then the letters seem elongated and spidery, and despite being taller than in the default font (Menlo, as this is IntelliJ), are harder to make out in their details - for example, the strokes of the 'w' are barely visible.<p>Reminds me a bit of mode 0 on the BBC Micro:<p><a href="http://beebwiki.mdfs.net/MODE_0" rel="nofollow">http://beebwiki.mdfs.net/MODE_0</a>
This looks interesting. What are those .patel files? [1]<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/tree/master/glyphs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/tree/master/glyphs</a>
I really like it, but I wish type designers gave more love to the italics variations, they almost always come out as obliqué or slanted instead of a true italics.<p>In my opinion, this typeface could use a bit of inspiration from the elegance of Consolas (<a href="http://www.lucasfonts.com/case-studies/calibri-consolas/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lucasfonts.com/case-studies/calibri-consolas/</a>)
Something about the stroke width and shape remind me of the Acorn typeface. Although it's only a passing similarity, somehow it makes me feel nostalgic. <a href="http://www.houseofmabel.com/puters/RISCOS3/plain.gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.houseofmabel.com/puters/RISCOS3/plain.gif</a>
I especially appreciate that it renders very cleanly at all point sizes in Windows Cleartype. A lot of fonts look fine at 12pt but then have odd jagged pixels at other sizes. Two cents: the double quote is a little anemic compared to the other (nicely sized) punctuation.
Just threw v0.0.4 into gedit for a trial run. I like it a lot, very readable. I will echo JohnDeHope's comment that the double quote seems a little too light to match well with the other characters. I'm eager to see where this goes!