--- title: Monaspace | daily.dev description: Monaspace is a new type system that advances the display of code on screen. It offers a more expressive palette for code, introduces texture healing to even... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/monaspace-3mnc33tty twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Monaspace | daily.dev og:description: Monaspace is a new type system that advances the display of code on screen. It offers a more expressive palette for code, introduces texture healing to even... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/monaspace-3mnc33tty og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3mnc33tTY.png og:image:alt: Monaspace og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Monaspace **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 227 upvotes · 15 comments ## Summary Monaspace is a new type system that advances the display of code on screen. It offers a more expressive palette for code, introduces texture healing to even out the density of monospaced type, provides three axes for font customization, and includes code ligatures for various languages. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@wiktoria** · 2 upvotes > I like it, but I don't like how they advertise we could use it for different purposes, and then not telling us how to. I had to look for hours to find a solution, and I had to use an extension for it. I would very much prefer to have a native implementation of it. **@tonydev** · 2 upvotes > Not bad, but I prefer JetBrains Mono > > >  **@lvasquez** · 1 upvotes > definitely bookmarking this **@equationzhao** · 1 upvotes > I love the handwriting one ❤️, using it for email.app already. But I'll stick to JetbrainsMono for coding... **@husseinkizz** · 1 upvotes > Nice font, we just need some more support for ligatures in vscode! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#typography](https://daily.dev/tags/typography) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/monaspace-3mnc33tty) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Monaspace","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/monaspace-3mnc33tty","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/monaspace-3mnc33tty"},"datePublished":"2023-11-09T22:56:56.422Z","dateModified":"2023-11-09T22:56:46.074Z","description":"Monaspace is a new type system that advances the display of code on screen. 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